Nutrition science programs in Australian universities often include curriculum components focused on career development, employability skills, and professionalism [1]. However, they typically lack clear scope-of-practice guidance, largely due to the absence of formalised tools, such as decision-making frameworks, specifically designed for use in client-facing settings where individuals or groups may seek dietary advice. Decision-making frameworks have the potential to enhance health professionals’ self-confidence, minimise scope creep between professions, and may foster broader public recognition of the evolving healthcare roles and responsibilities of different professions [2,3]. Therefore, developing a new decision-making framework specific to nutrition science (or equivalent) qualifications is an important next step. The aim of the present study was to explore practising nutrition professionals’ perspectives towards the scope-of-practice of nutrition science graduates, especially in client-facing roles where dietary advice is commonly sought. This exploratory qualitative study was grounded in interpretivism and drew upon the participants’ unique experiences to allow a meaningful exploration of a topic not examined in-depth previously. Convenience, purposive, and snowball recruitment strategies were used to recruit eligible participants who were aged 18 years or more, had a nutrition qualification from an Australian tertiary institution, and included recent nutrition graduates, nutritionists/nutrition scientists, dietitians, and course convenors of nutrition and/or dietetics programs. Data was audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, de-identified, and analysed using an inductive, reflexive thematic framework. Seventeen Australian-qualified dietitians and nutritionists/nutrition scientists participated in six focus groups and two interviews. Three themes emerged: 1) confusion surrounding the understanding of scope-of-practice, associated with a lack of clarity and definitions regarding qualifications and roles; 2) consequences for nutrition graduates, including perceptions that dietetics is the only pathway, as well as potential breaches of scope-of-practice especially in client-facing settings; 3) potential solutions, such as the need for a specific scope-of-practice decision-making framework to help nutritionists in client-facing settings, using design elements found in existing documents, such as flow charts. Confusion about the scope-of-practice in nutrition is expressed by a range of nutrition professionals, stemming from uncertainty about what graduates with non-dietetic qualifications can do in practice. Participants stated the need for greater clarity, including the development of nationally-applicable scope-of-practice guidelines and decision-making frameworks, as well as a role for universities to embed work-integrated-learning opportunities within programs. These initiatives would benefit graduates by enhancing their professional identity, improving the public’s recognition of their qualifications, and have the potential to better guide employers, nutrition educators and peak bodies in their efforts to prepare and support the next generations of nutrition graduates.