Expanding Scope of Nutrition Practice
Communication
Interviewing
Integrating Cultural Awareness, Humility, & Respect in Communication
Principles & Theories of Learning
100

This organization administers the national credentialing exam for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) and Nutrition and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (NDTRs).

What is the Commission on Dietetic Registration?

100

This emotional reaction occurs when someone feels or understands another person’s experience as if it were their own.

What is empathy?

100

This personal relationship is established between the interviewer and the respondent to create trust and comfort.

What is rapport?

100

This term represents the learned and shared knowledge that specific groups use to shape their behavior and interpret their experiences.

What is culture?

100

This learning theory is based on the belief that learning has identifiable parts and that rewards and punishments can shape behavior.

What is behavioral learning theory?

200

RDNs and NDTRs must complete 75 hours of continuing professional education this often to maintain certification.

What is every five years?

200

This well-developed skill is the foundation for building strong and effective interpersonal relationships.

What is listening?

200

These types of questions allow clients to share their story and express themselves freely during an interview.

What are open questions?

200

This is the innate belief that one’s own values and practices are absolute truths.

What is ethnocentrism?

200

This learning theory maintains that people learn not only from external cues but also from observing and modeling others.

What is social learning theory?

300

These are the four steps of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) in the correct order.

What are Nutrition Assessment, Nutrition Diagnosis, Nutrition Intervention, and Nutrition Monitoring/Evaluation?

300

This is usually the first nonverbal trait noticed when meeting someone.

What is facial expression?

300

This interviewing technique helps ensure that the information shared is clear and accurate by restating what the client has said in your own words.

What is paraphrasing?

300

This is demonstrated when a professional recognizes their own values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and prejudices.

What is cultural self-awareness?

300

A person who prefers learning new information by reading demonstrates this learning style.

What is a visual learning style?

400

In the Nutrition Care Process, this is the correct 3-step format used to document a PES statement.

What is “the problem (P) related to etiology (E) as evidenced by signs/symptoms (S)”?

400

This communication model allows two-way communication and feedback between sender and receiver.

What is the interactional model?

400

When beginning a nutrition interview, this is the most important action to take first.

What is building rapport?

400

Health education print materials should be written at this recommended reading level, which is most appropriate for public use.

What is the fifth-grade level?

400

This type of teaching approach assumes that learners are passive and respond primarily to environmental stimuli.

What is a teacher-centered approach?

500

Representing more than 40 international dietetic organizations and over 160,000 members worldwide, this group connects dietitians across the globe.

What is the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations?

500

In this communication model, both the sender and receiver encode and decode messages simultaneously.

What is the transactional model?

500

The use of closed questions in an interview has this effect on the conversation.

What is promoting more control by the interviewer?

500

When counseling clients who are not fluent in English, this is the most recommended way to address language differences.

What is addressing questions directly to the client with the help of a translator to respond?

500

This memory process involves grouping individual bits of information together to make them easier to remember.

What is chunking?