Get up-to-date, in a 100% online format, on the latest advances and techniques in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, delving into aspects such as nutrition in non-digestive pathologies in the paediatric patient”

Nursing has undergone numerous advances and innovations in recent years, incorporating new tools and techniques in areas such as neonatology and in scholar fields. Therefore, the professional requires a complete and deep up- to-date that allows him/her to master the latest procedures of the discipline. It is in this context that the advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing arises, an academic program that provides a complete and immediate up-to-date to the student.

Pediatric Nursing is an area that covers various subspecialties such as School Nursing, Neonatal Nursing or Pediatric Emergencies, among others. Thus, in this advanced master’s degree the professional will have the opportunity to delve into the latest advances in the most important disciplines of Nursing, mastering aspects such as the admission process of the newborn in the Neonatology Service, dermatological emergencies or the application of vaccines.

One of the highlights of this program is its 100% online methodology, which allows students to make their learning experience more flexible, adapting the academic itinerary to their own schedules. In addition, the nurse will have access to a wide variety of multimedia resources, such as in-focus videos and interactive summaries that will allow them to deepen their knowledge of the subjects in a dynamic way.

This advanced master’s degree will allow you to update you completely and immediately in areas such as School Nursing or Pediatric Emergencies”

This advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Pediatric Nursing
• The 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 the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Pediatric Nursing
• 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

Through this program you will master the most advanced nursing procedures: from the latest techniques in neonatal life support to artificial nutrition techniques”

Its teaching staff includes professionals from the field of Nurses, who bring to this program the experience of their work, as well as recognized specialists from reference 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 an immersive learning experience designed to prepare for real-life situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the student must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative system of interactive videos made by renowned experts.

Accompanied by a teaching staff of great prestige in the area of Pediatric Nursing"

Enroll now and update yourself with the most advanced multimedia resources: interactive summaries, in focus videos and practical activities, among others"

The main aim of this advanced master’s degree is to provide a specialized and updated preparation in the field of Pediatric Nursing. Therefore, this program of studies deepens in the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to the current challenges in areas such as School Nursing or Neonatal Nursing. In addition, the advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing seeks to encourage the development of interdisciplinary competencies, preparing the student to offer a complete and high level of clinical and health care.

Reach all your professional goals thanks to this advanced master’s degree, with which you will be up-to-date in areas such as Pediatric Clinical Nutrition or Neonatal Nursing”

General Objectives

• Update the necessary knowledge in the nursing care of pediatric patients, in order to increase the quality and safety of nursing practice in the Intensive Care Unit
• To up-to-date knowledge in nursing care of pediatric patients in emergency situations, in order to increase the quality and safety of their practice in the approach of the different nursing techniques and procedures in the most frequent pediatric emergencies
• Incorporate optimal neonatal care procedures into daily practice
• Update the knowledge of the nursing professional in the new trends in human nutrition, both in health and in pathological situations through evidence-based nursing
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and their application to adult and child pathologies, where these strategies play an essential 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
• Update the nursing professional in the techniques of optimal neonatal care, allowing to address the stabilization, nursing diagnosis and care of neonates who usually require intensive care with a current and evidence-based approach
• Bring the nursing professional's knowledge up-to-date in the new trends in School Nursing, as well as learn to design, build and implement educational programs, specific educational actions and apply and resolve care processes oriented to the school population as a whole
• Update the techniques of vaccination and disease prevention and their applicability in the population served to enable the nursing professional to increase training when exercising their professional activity
• Know in depth and apply the research methodology at the clinical-care and methodological level in the field of the vaccination process
• Develop skills to transmit and sensibilize the population about the importance and necessity of vaccines, as well as the vaccination process through health promotion strategies
• Train in vaccine management and the implementation of prevention strategies for communicable diseases susceptible to vaccination

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Basics and Fundamentals of Nursing in Child and Adolescent Care

• Update the principles of nursing in child and adolescent care
• Identify the main tools for the care of children and adolescents
• Analyze the nursing processes in medical procedures for children and adolescents

Module 2. Maternal and Infant Follow-up and Delivery Care

• Identify and define the stages of pregnancy and childbirth. and the role of nurses in the different stages
• Delve into the postpartum procedure and first quality care for the wellbeing of the infant
• Delve into the postpartum procedure and first-rate care for the mother's wellbeing
• Perform a brief postpartum maternal and child diagnosis

Module 3. Newborn Nursing Care

• Determine newborn screening tests

Module 4. Caring for Healthy Children

• Describe the different health examinations and controls in healthy child at different stages of development
• Perform newborn accommodation procedure
• Develop a list of vaccines and identify their execution times

Module 5. Care for Children with Health Problems

• Establish the vaccination schedule and vaccination in special situations
• Identify the main health complications newborns

Module 6. Research Methodology in Pediatric Nursing

• Delve into the latest updates in pediatric nursing research
• Identify the best tools in pediatric nursing
• Develop comparative methodologies to analyze the different methodologies that exist

Module 7. Health Care Organization for Common Pediatric Emergencies

• Describe the procedures that nurses can perform to safely resolve potentially dangerous situations

Module 8. Common Advanced Pediatric and Neonatal Cardiovascular Support

• Identify newborn patients and heart condition
• Know how to provide first aid in the event of a complication in pediatric patients
• Develop an action plan for cardiovascular emergencies

Module 9. Invasive Techniques in Common Critically Ill Pediatric Patients

• Define a guide with the first aid and treat them in the most prudent way possible
• Perform emergency medical examinations
• Identify the main invasive techniques

Module 10. Cardiologic Emergencies

• Perform a quick general check of the patient's condition
• Identify the implements involved in cardiac processes
• Know the steps to follow in an emergency of this magnitude

Module 11. Respiratory Emergencies

• Carry out the correct sequence of basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers
• Carry out advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers according to the latest life support recommendations

Module 12. Pediatric Trauma and Osteoarticular Injuries

• Identify the main osteoarticular injuries
• Check joints that are most prone to injury
• Specify evaluation and treatment priorities in traumatized children and the characteristics of pediatric patients in general

Module 13. Unintentional Injuries Child Accidents

• Define a guide with the first aid and treat them in the most prudent way possible
• Identify the injury and possible treatment
• Develop a preventive guide to the most frequently occurring injuries
• Indicate the management and treatment methods for wounds and burns

Module 14. Neurological Emergencies

• Recognize the main neurological diseases
• Develop a preventive guide to identify good care to prevent neurological disease
• Perform periodic evaluations to know the patient's diagnosis
• To establish the correlation between the different types of brain damage and their clinical manifestations
• Describe the diagnostic process, assessment and care of pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury

Module 15. Digestive Emergencies

• Identify the main digestive emergencies
• Review the patient's diet
• Increase the ability to manage the acutely intoxicated child or adolescent
• Identify the most risky foods that lead to digestive pathologies

Module 16. Endocrinometabolic Emergencies

• Know the patient's age and assess their development to date
• Identify the main treatments for proper endocrine development
• Identify the main problems affecting the patient's metabolism

Module 17. Infectious Emergencies

• Identify the main infections and their occurrence in young patients
• Identify the main tools that counteract infections when they are produced
• Develop an action guide to treat infections
• Analyze the specific action protocols by age for pediatric patients with a fever

Module 18. Ophthalmologic and Otorhinolaryngologic Emergencies

• Know the main ophthalmologic complications that a patient may present
• Perform a correct diagnosis of the otorhinolaryngological system
• Define the most common prevention techniques and treatments

Module 19. Pediatric Skin Emergencies

• Identify the main problems of the nephrourological system
• Develop a preventive plan for the renal system

Module 20. Nephrourological Emergencies

• Establish the differential organizational and management characteristics of pediatric emergency departments
• Describe sedoanalgesia procedure preparation and performance

Module 21. Special Situations in Pediatric Emergencies

• Define the concept of pain, its types and methods of evaluation
• Recognize from major to minor emergencies that occur in patients

Module 22. Admission of a Newborn in the Neonatal Ward or in the NICU

• Determine how to structure a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as well as the calculation and arrangement of the cribs, the necessary physical space needed, the necessary equipment and materials; and the necessary human resources
• Identify the profiles and roles of the “nursing team” as well as its operating system: Primary Nursing
• Describe the guidelines for drug administration in neonatology
• Establish the criteria and objectives for admission of a newborn to the NICU; as well as the necessary nursing interventions
• Identify and classify the types of neonatal transport, its objectives and its purpose
• Select the necessary team and equipment to provide appropriate neonatal transport
• Acquire up-to-date knowledge of the therapeutic measures for treating pain in newborns, as well as how to manage the pain in some of the procedures in the NICU

Module 23. Neonatal Resuscitation

• Form a resuscitation team and select the necessary equipment to perform neonatal resuscitation
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of resuscitation procedures
• Incorporate the latest information on the recommendations for neonatal resuscitation techniques, acknowledging the neonatal risk factors, as well as general procedures in the lead-up to birth
• Identify special resuscitation situations as well as the basic principles for a successful resuscitation
• Describe the possible complications that can arise during neonatal resuscitation

Module 24. Principles of Drug Administration and Vascular Access in Neonatology

• Updating the techniques necessary for the maintenance and removal of the IV and the occurrence of possible complications
• Determine the precautions and contraindications as well as the appearance of possible complications that can occur with each of the specific ways of administering drugs
• Describe the different techniques to cannulate the umbilical artery or vein in a newborn
• Assess the contraindications and the complications of umbilical cannulation
• Update-to-date knowledge of the catheter removal procedure, the precautions which should be taken, its contraindications and complications

Module 25. Thermal Management, Pain Control and Sedation of the Newborn

• Describe thermal management in the newborn, its thermoregulation and the use of a neutral thermal environment
• Incorporate newborn temperature assessment guidelines into nursing practice
• Apply hypothermia in the newborn with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy as a neuroprotective measure, as well as the neuroprotective mechanisms of action
• Differentiate the indications and contraindications of hypothermia
• Describe the exit criteria once hypothermia has been initiated
• Assess pain control in a newborn as well as the short and long term consequences of the pain
• Evaluate the different techniques for measuring pain in a newborn
• Predict the onset of withdrawal syndrome in the newborn and how to manage it

Module 26. Nursing Interventions: Family Care, Perinatal Death and Neonatal Development

• Explain family-centred care, as well as the ways to promote and rebuild the family bond
• Evaluate the importance of family in the neonatal unit and NICU
• Establish coping strategies for perinatal death, the intervention of professionals if it occurs, the grieving process and the stages
• Relate the influence of the impact of the NICU environment on newborn development
• Target neonatal care which is focused on the development, as well as the interventions, regarding the macro- and micro-environment of the newborn
• Acquire up-to-date knowledge of the nursing staff's own involvement when discharging patients from hospital

Module 27. Clinical Nutrition and Hospital Dietetics

• 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 multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way
• Acquire technical knowledge on the handling of systems and devices necessary for nutritional support in critically ill patients

Module 28. Physiology of Infant Nutrition

• Review current trends in premature infant nutrition
• Describe current trends in the nutrition of infants with delayed intrauterine growth and the implication of nutrition on metabolic diseases
• Reflect on the role of human milk as a functional food
• Review the physiology of breastfeeding
• Explain how milk banks work
• 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
• Reflect on the role of nutrition in autistic children
• Match the different types of malnutrition and their impact on the developing organism
• 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
• Update knowledge on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding
• 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
• Review and update the role that fats play in children’s diets

Module 29. Artificial Nutrition in Pediatrics

• Apply Food Science and Nutrition to the practice of pediatric dietetics
• Update the dietary management of oral cavity pathologies in children
• Update knowledge on new formulae used in infant feeding
• Identify children at nutritional risk who are eligible for specific support
• Evaluate and monitor the supervision of children on nutritional support
• Apply the knowledge acquired on nutritional assessment Artificial in Pediatrics

Module 30. Infant Malnutrition

• Identify children suffering from malnutrition
• Explain the correct nutritional support for a malnourished child
• Describe the nutritional requirements in the different periods of childhood
• Identify the repercussion that a pregnant and lactating mother's nutrition has on the intrauterine growth and evolution of new-borns and infants

Module 31. Childhood Nutrition and Pathologies

• Determine the management of the infant with gastroesophageal reflux
• Reflect on the etiology, repercussions, and treatment of childhood obesity
• Comprehend the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different pathologies in childhood
• Determine the dietary guidelines for adults with chronic renal failure and on dialysis
• Get up-to-date on the dietary management of dyslipidemias
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children
• Identify the appropriate nutritional therapy for pediatric patients with chronic pulmonary pathology
• Identify exclusion foods in the diets of children with celiac disease
• Explain the dietary management of children with nephropathy
• Reflect on the relationship between constipation and infant nutrition
• Manage diabetic children's diet

Module 32. Newborn Feeding: Breastfeeding/Formula Feeding and Feeding of the Hospitalized Infant

• Explain what a newborn diet consists of
• Describe the requirements and feeding objectives of the breastfeeding infant
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of the process and the benefits of breastfeeding

Module 33. Health Promotion in Schools Integration of the School Nurse

• Identify those aspects of risk that may affect the health of schoolchildren, such as pathologies, psychosocial alterations, etc.) and draw up action plans
• Identify the nutritional needs of healthy children and adolescents, as well as develop menus and diets adapted to students with special needs
• Explain basic hygiene concepts and devise strategies for action in the entire school community (Pediculosis, etc.)
• Describe the current vaccination schedule, apply it correctly and identify possible complications related to the administration of vaccines

Module 34. Prevention of Drug Addiction and Other Addictive Behaviors

• Identify the main strategies to prevent drug dependence in the school environment
• Manage the problem of alcohol consumption and its consequences

Module 35. School Hygiene and Ergonomics in the School Environment

• Know in depth the relevance of body hygiene
• Explain ergonomics applied to the classroom

Module 36. Prevention and Attention to Risk Situations and the Most Frequent Diseases in School-Age Children

• Review the vaccination schedule
• Acquire the necessary skills to care for children with pathologies such as diabetes, epilepsy or allergies

Module 37. Nursing in Special Education Schools

• Master ICTs in children with special needs
• Know the basics of nutrition and healthy habits

Module 38. Action in the Case of an Emergency in the School Environment

• Reference documents from the latest guidelines
• Identify environmental and injury emergencies

Module 39. Nursing Methodology in Vaccines

• Identify the different stages of the nursing care process and apply it to the vaccination process
• Integrate the vaccination process within the nursing care process in a theoretical-practical way
• Know in depth the most appropriate standardized nursing diagnoses according to the current methodology within the vaccination process
• Apply the most appropriate nursing interventions for each situation within the vaccination process according to the NIC classification
• Relate the different types of prevention in a community context to the nursing vaccination process
• Integrate the vaccination process within the theoretical nursing specialization and in conjunction with advanced practice nursing
• Determine the actuality of nursing within immunization

Module 40. Child Vaccination

• Understand in depth the numerous pediatric immunization schedules existing in the healthcare environment and the main differences between them
• Integrate the bases on which the concept of the paediatric vaccination schedule is based within the disease prevention and health promotion strategies of the different health systems
• Differentiate the stages of vaccination at the pediatric level, from primary vaccination to booster vaccines
• Specialize in the main vaccines, their characteristics and the correct vaccination schedule for the pediatric population aged 0 and 12 months
• In-depth knowledge of the main vaccines, their characteristics and the correct vaccination schedule for the pediatric population between 12 months and 4 years of age
• In-depth knowledge of the main vaccines, their characteristics and the correct vaccination schedule for the pediatric population aged 4 and 14 years
• Specialize in the main vaccines, their characteristics and the correct vaccination schedule for the adolescent population
• Know in depth the differences in the vaccination process in an infant considered premature according to current standards with respect to full-term infants
• Determine the concept of a global immunization strategy GIVS
• Recognize the myths and false beliefs that exist within the pediatric vaccination process

Module 41. The Future of Vaccines

• Know the different vaccines currently being created in the world and where they are in the process
• Relate the vaccination process to how it is exposed to the rest of the world through the media in its different ways
• Establish the basis of the concept called reverse vaccinology and to know the genome concept
• Identify the different vaccination strategies existing worldwide by the different existing organizations and their most important differences
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the current anti-vaccine movements and what should be a correct approach in daily practice
• Relate the current epidemiological situation to the COVID-19 situation and vaccines
• Familiarize yourself with the different sources of reliable information available on the web about vaccines information on vaccines in order to be able to pass it on to patients at a later date
• Identify the Vaccine Safety Network concept and know its theoretical basis
• Establish different basic tips when finding reliable scientific information about vaccines on the Internet

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