[BULK] Re: Question about Online Professional Portfolio

[Guest guest]

The HOD tied the membership fee to the annual cost of living years ago. So we

were all notified of it.

Your membership dues support your local state affiliate. Each affiliate gets

a " rebate " from all memberships - so not ALL the money you send to ADA stays

with ADA. You cannot be a member of your state or local affiliate without ADA

membership.

Your membership gets you access to the Evidenced Based Library (subscription

is free to members, $400/yr for non-members).

Your membership gets you access to the latest information about the Nutrition

Care Process, Nutrition Diagnosis, Internvention & Monitoring.

Your membership gets you access to the Standards of Practice (some have

already been published, some are currently in the works) for different

specialties.

Your membership supports ADA in Legislation (Public Policy, Lobbying,

Advertising the RD) - all very expensive endeavors that have produced results -

maybe not fast enough for some of you - but fast = more expensive than ADA can

afford.

Your membership includes free CEUs via the ADA Journal (the hard copy

generates income via advertising that more than covers the cost of mailing it)

and you can access it online if you don't want to read the hard copy.

Your membership is deductible as a business expense if you have a small

business and file Schedule C. All RDs should start a small Nutrition Consulting

business. Do some private practice or self-employeed work. Then continuing

education, a dedicated phone (i.e. my cell phone is my business phone), and any

other expenses incured for your business is all deductible.

Talk to your employeer - do they require ADA membership? Do they enjoy the

discounted education material prices from membership? My FullTime job had ADA

Membership as a requirement (and CDR, obviously). But they weren't reimbursing

us, cause they don't pay for nursing licenses either. We came up with a

workaround - they give each of us $60/month food card in the cafeteria - that is

$720/yr. More than covers our ADA, CDR, and a couple of CEU credits.

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Merav Levi- wrote:

I also contemplating not to renew my membership. It is far too expensive for

the limited benefits we get. I like the Nutrition Support publication

" Support line " . I wish I could stay in the DPG without the ADA. But I don't

think I could afford the memebership fees and DPG's.

If fees where more reasonable I would keep my bemebrship and maybe have more

then one DPG.

And you would think that ADA would inform members of upcoing raise before we get

our invoices....

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Holly Lee Brewer, MS RD CDE

Pediatric Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, Wellness Nutrition

Nevada Dietetic Association President 2006-2007

Las Vegas, NV www.nevadard.org

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[Guest guest]

Sorry Carol, my mistake. I misread your statement and thought you

were talking about membership in ADA, not CDR registration. No harm

was intended.

I'm only trying to help save a new mom some money as I was in the same

boat a few years ago. I agree with what wrote about discounts.

In school and in my internship, membership in ADA was stressed.

Nobody bothered to tell me that ADA membership was optional, so I

wasted a lot of money on ADA membership for the first few years that I

was an RD. It was hard enough just keeping up with registration fees,

CPEU's and liability insurance while making a whopping $390 a month as

a consultant.

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> Regarding your statement about me: " Carol Casey is wrong about the

portfolio

> part. I work with a dozen RD's, most of whom are not members of ADA.

We all

> have our portfolios written out and can access CDR online to

update/change

> them, etc. ADA membership is optional, registering with CDR isn't. "

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> What exactly am I wrong about? I NEVER said anything about NOT

being able

> to access CDR if you are NOT ADA member. I would appreciate it if

you got

> your facts correct prior to making your replies.

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> My exact reply, sent May 6, 2007 at 8:28 PM was: " Once you are

registered

> you are not eligible for any discount. If you are not registered,

you do

> not have a portfolio. The playing feel is leveled once you are

registered,

> everyone pays the same about, no matter how much you work. Only

fair. "

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> , as you can see, I never said anything remotely close to what

you are

> supposedly claiming I said.

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> My reply was to what had sent on May 3, 2007 at 10:01 AM which

was:

> " There's a discounted price for students, It's too bad there's not

different

> priced dues for those of us in new businesses,or if we work 20 hours or

> less.

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> Then we could afford to stay.

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> , please MORE cautious about putting words into other people's

mouths.

> I would greatly appreciate it, as others would also.

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> Carol, (Galatians 5:22-23)

> CarolSCasey@...

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