Making Nutrition Your Business

Making Nutrition Your Business, Second Edition is an essential and comprehensive resource for creating, growing, and maintaining a successful nutrition private practice. It is a complete roadmap to beginning a nutrition-based business, providing detailed advice on: Structuring your business, Money management, Setting up and equipping an office, Using technology to your advantage, Marketing and growing your business, Billing and reimbursement, Getting clients to return, and more. Written by two experienced private practitioners with thriving businesses, this hands-on second edition includes more guidance on setting up third-party reimbursement and becoming an insurance provider, a new chapter featuring success stories from private practice dietitians, and a comprehensive resources section. It is a must-read for all dietetics professionals who aspire to go out on their own! Book jacket.

This is an essential resource for any dietetics professional considering a switch to private practice, consulting, writing, or speaking. This book discusses what it takes to go solo, how to structure your business, money management essentials, office space tips, how to use technology to rev up your practice, marketing ideas that will get you noticed, and more.

Nicole Aucoin, Founder and CEO of Healthy Steps Nutrition, did something many people only dream of doing. She left a stable, salaried position as a hospital dietitian to become her own boss. Healthy Steps Nutrition has developed the gold standard for building a nutrition business from the initial stages of launching to scaling a program. As any business start-up, Nicole has faced challenges along the way. However, her passion for changing people's lives through nutrition and exercise kept her from giving up and going back to the comforts of her old job. She evaluated, assessed, and adjusted her approach, and has been able to scale the program to help dietitians and fitness facilities implement nutrition around the world. Nourish: How to Grow Your Nutrition Business from the Ground Up is the story of how Nicole took the small idea of helping people change their lifestyle through proper nutrition into a successful nutrition business. It is the how-to guide for starting a nutrition business from the ground up. Whether you are a registered dietitian or fitness facility owner, this roadmap will lead you to a profitable nutrition program. Nicole's experiences and stories throughout the book will guide you to be a better leader in our own nutrition endeavors.

Discusses how to start, build, and manage a private practice in the field of nutrition. Written for dietitians and dietetic technicians to offer practical suggestions and guidelines on the development of money-making ventures.

Nutritionist in Private Practice is a must have resource for the registered dietitian, nutrition student, dietetic intern, nutritionist or health coach who someday dreams of having their own business. Get the inside story of what it took for one nutritionist to leave behind the 40 hour work week and salaried paycheck to transition into self employment. The mysterious world of private practice that is not typically part of nutrition curriculum is unveiled through the perspective of one person who has successfully made the transition and built a nutrition business using her own resources. Popular topics such as whether or not to take insurance, having a website, developing programs, networking and marketing and balancing responsibilities of everyday life are discussed in honest detail as the author takes you through her journey in the first year on her own. The writing style is conversation and frank, providing a glimpse into the life of a real person entering the world of entrepreneurship. The reader is provided with a tale of human experience rather than just a handbook of instructions.

Malnutrition and obesity are both common among Americans over age 65. There are also a host of other medical conditions from which older people and other Medicare beneficiaries suffer that could be improved with appropriate nutritional intervention. Despite that, access to a nutrition professional is very limited. Do nutrition services benefit older people in terms of morbidity, mortality, or quality of life? Which health professionals are best qualified to provide such services? What would be the cost to Medicare of such services? Would the cost be offset by reduced illness in this population? This book addresses these questions, provides recommendations for nutrition services for the elderly, and considers how the coverage policy should be approached and practiced. The book discusses the role of nutrition therapy in the management of a number of diseases. It also examines what the elderly receive in the way of nutrition services along the continuum of care settings and addresses the areas of expertise needed by health professionals to provide appropriate nutrition services and therapy.

"The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition is a quick-reference guide for dietitians, students, and other health professionals actively engaged in clinical nutrition, providing them with immediate access to evidence-based information on nutritional assessment, nutrition support, and nutrition considerations for specific diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and pulmonary disease. Using the latest nutritional guidelines, the authors utilize a consistent chapter format that includes sections on disease process, treatment and nutritional intervention, and patient education, making it easy to find relevant information"--