What is the difference between what dietitians do and what nutritionists do?

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What is the difference between what dietitians do and what nutritionists do?

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I would like to add that in a medical setting Dietitians are in charge of writing tube feeding orders and TPN orders (IV nutrition for when the gut cannot be used). To work in any medical setting you must be an RD).

source: am a dietitian who works in a hospital