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"

Nowadays, clinical nutrition and hospital dietetics have become fundamental elements in the recovery and well-being of patients. Nursing professionals are key in this field, as they have a fundamental role in the prevention, evaluation and treatment of nutrition-related diseases.  

According to the World Health Organization, hospital malnutrition affects up to 50% of hospitalized patients and increases mortality, morbidity and length of hospital stay. Therefore, it is essential that nurses have adequate training such as TECH offers in this program.  

This postgraduate diploma responds to the current need for specific and updated training in this field. This program is designed to provide knowledge and skills in the evaluation and treatment of nutrition-related diseases, as well as in the planning of diets and implementation of nutritional measures in hospitalized patients. The objective is to enable nurses to work efficiently in multidisciplinary teams and improve the quality of life and health of patients. 

This program is developed in a 100% online format, which can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection, without pre-established schedules and without having to go to teaching centers.  

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 Clinical Nutrition and Hospital Dietetics 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 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
• Nursing care guidelines on the different pathologies related to nutrition
• 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 will provide you with a faster integration 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 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"

You will be able to complete the postgraduate diploma Degree 100% online, adapting it to your needs and making it easier for you to take it while you carry out your full-time health care role"

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

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
• Review the drug-nutrient interaction and its implication in patients treatment
• Identify the relationship between nutrition and immune status
• Update knowledge in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
• Incorporate the possibilities of phytotherapy as an adjuvant treatment in nursing practice
• Review the psychological bases and biopsychosocial factors that affect human eating behavior
• Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status
• Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological, and pharmacological data in the patient's nutritional assessment and dietary-nutritional treatment
• 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
• Identify and classify foods, food products, and food ingredients
• Review the chemical composition of foods, their physicochemical properties, their nutritional value, their bioavailability, their organoleptic properties, and the changes they undergo as a result of technological and culinary processes
• Describe the composition and utilities of new foods
• Check basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology and toxicology related to food safety
• Evaluate and maintain adequate hygiene and food safety practices, applying current legislation
• Acquire teamwork skills as a unit in which professionals and other personnel related to the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of dietetics and nutrition are structured in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way

The teaching materials of this program, elaborated by these specialists, have contents that are completely applicable to your professional experiences"