Acquire the necessary skills and competencies to work in nursing in the area of Clinical Nutrition with a high intensity training course”

Nowadays, hospital dietetics plays a fundamental role in the care of hospitalized patients, since proper nutrition can have a positive influence on their recovery and reduce their hospital stay. Nurses have an important role in monitoring and controlling the nutrition of patients, so it is necessary that they have the necessary knowledge to provide quality care in this area.

The postgraduate certificate in Hospital Dietetics for Nurses responds to the current need to train health professionals in this area. The program is designed to provide the knowledge and tools necessary to plan, manage and evaluate the nutrition of patients, adapting the diet to their nutritional needs and pathologies.

In addition, the program is developed in a 100% online format, which allows students to adapt their learning to their pace and availability. In this way, they will not have to meet schedules or move to an on-site center. It also has high-impact audiovisual resources, complementary readings and practical exercises, based on the Relearning learning model.  

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

This postgraduate certificate in Hospital Dietetics for Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• Clinical cases presented by experts in nutrition. 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
• The latest diagnostic and therapeutic information on how to approach Hospital Dietetics in Medicine
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• Special emphasis on test-based medicine and research methodologies in Clinical 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 Course is developed through the most performed didactic 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 theoretical and practical learning, so that the nurse can master Hospital dietetics in a practical and rigorous way.

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

General Objectives

• Update the nursing professionals knowledge on new trends in human nutrition, in both health and disease 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 training
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuing education and research
• Prepare the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems

Specific Objectives

• To 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
• Understand, detect early on and evaluate the quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency
• To 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
• Learn the composition and utilities of new foods
• Review basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology, and toxicology related to food safety
• To evaluate and maintain adequate hygiene and food safety practices, applying current legislation

Make the most of this opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Hospital Dietetics for Nursing”