With this postgraduate diploma you will be able to combine high-intensity education with your professional and personal life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way"

Nowadays, nursing care in nutrition and disease is essential to ensure the quality of life and well-being of patients. Malnutrition is an increasingly common problem in the population and is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. On the other hand, obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease also require specialized nutrition care by nurses. 

Given this situation, it is essential that nurses have the necessary knowledge to provide comprehensive and quality care in the field of nutrition and disease. Therefore, this Postgraduate Diploma responds to this need, providing specialized and up-to-date education on the subject in order to detect, prevent and treat nutritional problems in patients. 

All this informative content will be hosted on the virtual campus, which can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection, without fixed schedules and without having to attend on-site centers. Another advantage is that it has the participation of experts and specialists, who together have contributed their years of work and experience to the syllabus.  

Acquire the skills and competencies necessary to work in nursing in the area of Clinical Nutrition with a high learning intensity program"

The postgraduate diploma in Nursing Care in Nutrition and Disease contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The graphic, schematic and practical contents of the course are designed to provide all the essential information required for professional practice
• It contains exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making for patients with feeding problems
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which means a faster assimilation and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the field who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.   

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive education programmed to learn in real situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

The learning of this postgraduate diploma is developed through the most advanced didactic means in online teaching to guarantee that your effort will have the best possible results"

You will be able to complete the postgraduate diploma 100% online, adapting it to your needs and allowing you to study while you carry out your full-time healthcare work"

The main objective of the program is the development of both theoretical and practical learning, so that the nursing professional can master, in a practical and rigorous way, the study of Nutrition and Disease. 

This refresher program will generate a sense of confidence in the performance of your nursing practice, which will help you grow personally and professionally" 

General Objectives

• Update the knowledge of the nursing professional in the new trends in human nutrition, both in health and in pathological situations through evidence-based Health
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to adult pathologies, where nutrition plays a fundamental role in treatment
• Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuing education and research
• Prepare the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Assessment of Nutritional Status and Diet. Practical Application 

• Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status 
• Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological and pharmacological data in the nutritional assessment of the patient and in their dietary- nutritional treatment 
• Predict patients’ nutritional risk 
• Manage the different types of nutritional surveys to assess food intake 
• Early detection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency 
• Review basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology and toxicology related to food safety 

Module 2. Nutrition in Digestive System Pathologies 

• Know the different oral alterations, as well as esophago-gastric alterations 
• Address nutrition in post-surgical syndromes 
• Study common food allergies and intolerances with gastrointestinal impact 

Module 3. Nutrition in Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases 

• Explore the etiology, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics of obesity 
• Delve into the advances in Diabetes Mellitus and hypertension 
• Know the most effective endoscopic and surgical treatments for endocrine-metabolic diseases 
• Update knowledge on dieting and obesity 

Module 4. Nutrition in Kidney Diseases 

• Explore glomerular conditions and tubulopathies 
• In-depth study of chronic renal insufficiencies 

Module 5. Nutrition in Neurological Diseases 

• Study swallowing disorders 
• Know the most important developments in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease 
• In-depth study of cerebrovascular accidents 
• Delve into disabling neuromuscular conditions 

Module 6. Nutrition in Special Situations 

• Explore nutrition in the context of metabolic stress 
• Broaden knowledge regarding the treatment of oncology patients 
• Know the role of nutrition in immune-mediated diseases 

Module 7. Nutrition in Deficiency Diseases 

• Study hospital malnutrition and fasting cycles 
• Define a framework for action against anemia and hemochromatosis 
• Further understanding of the relationship between diet and oral diseases 

Module 8. Artificial Nutrition in Adults 

• Distinguish enteral and parenteral nutrition with their main characteristics 
• Know the advances in home artificial nutrition

Make the most of the opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Nutrition and Disease for Nursing”