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

postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Nutrition for Nursing is an essential response from professionals to the health care and preventive needs of the population in terms of nutrition and health. 

This complete training goes deeper into the nutritional problems most frequently presented by patients, addressing different techniques for assessment and nursing diagnoses. This program will allow the nursing professional to adapt this knowledge to each patient, using all the suggested plan and completing it with their own experiences. 

With this qualification, nurses will develop their skills and knowledge of the different health problems in Clinical Nutrition. A unique opportunity to update knowledge from the hand of great working professionals, with the best teaching resources and case studies based on real clinical situations. 

Therefore, this training in 100% online format becomes a unique opportunity of knowledge, so that it can be developed from any device with Internet connection, without having to attend an on-site center. 

Acquire the necessary skills and competencies to work in nursing in the area of Clinical Nutrition with a high intensity training postgraduate diploma"

This postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Nutrition for Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include:

• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created contain information that is indispensable 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
• Nursing care guidelines on the different pathologies related to nutrition
• All this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is available 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, providing you with faster integration and a much more realistic view of the content: “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 academic year For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.    

The learning in this postgraduate diploma is developed through the most developed teaching methods in online teaching to guarantee that your efforts produce the best results possible"

It includes clinical cases to bring the development of the program as close as possible to the reality of nursing care"

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

This refresher program will generate a sense of security when practicing nursing, which will help you grow both personally and professionally”

General Objectives

• Update the nursing professional’s knowledge of new trends in human nutrition, both in health and pathological situations through evidence-based nursing
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to child and 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 education
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuous education and research
• Prepare the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems

Specific Objectives

• Update the basics of a balanced diet in the different stages of life cycle as well as in exercise
• Assess and calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease at any stage of the life cycle
• Review the new dietary guidelines, nutritional objectives, and recommended dietary allowances (RDA)
• Manage food databases and composition tables
• Acquire skills in reading and understanding new food labeling methods
• Apply Food Science and Nutrition to the practice of pediatric dietetics
• Update the different educational methods of application in health sciences, as well as communication techniques applicable to food and human nutrition with a special focus on children and adolescents
• Reflect on the usefulness of the school cafeteria as an educational vehicle
• Review the relation between physiology and nutrition in the different stages of infant development
• Understand the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different pathalogies in childhood.
• Identify the repercussion that a pregnant and lactating mother's nutrition has on the intrauterine growth and evolution of new-borns and infants
• Describe the nutritional requirements in the different periods of childhood
• Apply the knowledge acquired on nutritional assessment in Pediatrics
• Evaluate and prescribe physical activity as a factor involved in nutritional status
• Calculate child and adolescent athlete dietary needs and risks
• Review current trends in premature infant nutrition
• Describe current trends in feeding of the intrauterine delayed infant and the implication of feeding on metabolic diseases
• Reflect on the role of human milk as a functional food
• Review the physiology of breastfeeding
• Explain how milk banks work
• Update knowledge on new formulae used in infant feeding
• Reflect on new trends and models in infant feeding
• Reflect and identify risk factors in school and adolescent nutrition
• Describe the pathophysiological aspects of pediatric diseases

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