A 100% online and intensive program where you will learn the latest nursing techniques and procedures for the care of patients with chronic neurological, renal or respiratory pathologies”

The World Health Organization estimates that the average life expectancy for an Alzheimer's patient is between 8 and 10 years. This long period of time can be complex to cope with for families who continually demand the most specialized care. Primary care nurses are essential in this context since, according to the most up-to-date criteria, their competencies and duties cover both hospital and community settings. In order for these professionals to develop a comprehensive management of these and other patients with chronic diseases, the intervention protocols are continuously renewed, making it a real challenge to keep up to date with the main innovations.

For this reason, TECH has created this postgraduate diploma where students will find the most advanced criteria on the care of chronic pathologies. Thus, nurses will be able to optimize their professional practice with the latest care trends and stand out in the health field. For this purpose, they have a very complete syllabus where the most recent nursing procedures that facilitate the intervention and care of people with dementia, asthma, epilepsy or renal failure will be analyzed. Specifically, they will delve into the characteristics of the Cronic Care Model and delve into the features that distinguish it from other working models for nurses. The program will also examine the most innovative strategies in the management of oncology patients and the development of palliative care.

This program will be delivered 100% online, with no continuous assessment schedules or timelines. On the contrary, each student will have the opportunity to access the contents freely, according to their own availability and at any time of the 24 hours of the day. Likewise, for the assimilation of the most complex contents of this academic itinerary, it will be able to rely on disruptive and original methods such as Relearning. This didactic strategy will enhance the absorption of theoretical knowledge and the development of practical skills in a more expeditious and efficient way.

TECH offers you advanced nursing competencies so that you can fully integrate the family and community environment in the care of chronic patients”

This postgraduate diploma in Nursing Care for the Chronic Patient in Primary Care contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Postgraduate Certificate studies presented by experts in Primary Care Nursing
• Graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• 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

Chronic patient care in primary care requires the most skilled and up-to-date nursing professionals. With TECH you can be one of them!”

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

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

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

The Cronic Care Model and the Guided Care Model are some of the innovative strategies for the management of patients with chronic conditions"

You will master, through this postgraduate diploma, the most advanced strategies that a nurse should know to carry out the assessment and care of people under palliative care"

Optimizing the management of chronic patients in the hospital and community setting is the fundamental objective of this university program designed for nurses. At the same time, these professionals will be able to delve into the tools for caring for the families in whose nuclei these people live. At the same time, they will delve into strategies for assessing, caring for and offering personalized follow-up to pregnant women, children and adolescents, the cognitively impaired elderly or any other person in a situation of exclusion. With these academic goals in mind, TECH has implemented in this program the use of the Relearning method and other didactic mechanisms that will enhance a fast and flexible learning process.

An intensive program where you will be able to analyze as a nurse all the psychosocial conditions involved in the management and care required by a chronic patient”

General Objectives

• Develop knowledge about the aspects of care in Primary Care, both for individuals, families and groups and the interactions that occur between them
• Broaden the professional domains of Primary Care Nursing and acquire knowledge for greater visibility, prestige, and a higher level of job autonomy
• Actively participate in the community in terms of community health programs
• Keep abreast of advanced practice trends in primary care nursing
• Promote best practices, based on scientific evidence, in response to advances in treatment research and technology

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Chronic Illness Care. Nursing Techniques and Procedures

• Perform nursing interventions related to the most prevalent chronic diseases, based on current evidence
• Prevent the deterioration of functional capacity, improve their quality of life and reduce progression to advanced chronic patients
• Address techniques and procedures in Cardiovascular and Respiratory, such as: vascular access (peripheral and central), ECG, airway patency, ankle arm, spirometry, EASI monitoring, electrical cardioversion, pacemakers/defibrillators, etc
• Promote the application of techniques and procedures in Digestive and Urology without forgetting Ostomy care
• Encourage the application of techniques and procedures in Neurology and sensory organs
• Participate in rehabilitation programs

Module 2. Complex and advanced chronicity. Fragility and social and health care model

• Deepen the knowledge of the conceptual bases of chronicity and dependency
• Manage the main models of chronicity care Acquire knowledge of the Triple, Quadruple and Quintuple
• Detect and intervene early in situations of frailty, chronicity and complexity Analyze the model of community nurse case management
• Identify the different scales necessary for a comprehensive geriatric assessment, as well as the frailty indexes
• Intervene in the different geriatric syndromes, applying nursing care to people with palliative care

Module 3. Life Cycle Family approach and social determinants

• Use systemic strategies to formulate hypotheses, intervene and evaluate family situations
• Determine the extent of family dynamics in the health and disease process of its members
• Train and support the family in coping with crises or problematic situations such as illness or death of a member, arrival of a new component, parental separations, among others
• Detect psychosocial problems and families at risk and provide anticipatory family counseling
• Identify the different stages of family development and help families cope effectively
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate health promotion and disease prevention programs for children, adults and the elderly
• Prevent and detect situations of social and health exclusion, fragility and social isolation

Don't miss the opportunity to enroll in this program that offers you access to study materials 24 hours a day in correspondence with your individual academic schedules and needs”