INTERNATIONAL DIETETICS AND NUTRITION
TERMINOLOGY (IDNT)
REFERENCE MANUAL

Since the Nutrition Care Process and Model development, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has released several
publications related to the Nutrition Care Process (NCP). The original article published in 2003 described the complete
Nutrition Care Process (1). This article was updated in 2007-2008 by a subcommittee of the Nutrition Care Process
Standardized Language (NCP/SL) Committee chaired by Annalynn Skipper, PhD, RD. Part one of the updated article
was published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (2). The second part of the
article was published in August 2008 in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (3).