Acquire the necessary skills and competencies to work in nursing in the best Assisted Reproduction Units with a highly intensive academic professional master’s degree”

This professional master’s degree will take the student through several key aspects: anatomy of human reproduction, neuroendocrinology of reproduction, ovogenesis and spermatogenesis and other fundamental aspects. 

Throughout the professional master’s degree, the approach to the study of infertility in women will start from the basics. By means of the clinical history, the nursing student will begin by identifying the most important factors involved and will learn about the most relevant and frequent pathologies that affect women with infertility. Special emphasis will be placed on all those basic tests necessary for the initiation and continuation of treatment, finding out the fundamental role of the nursing service: assistance, management and education.

In addition, we will study the different techniques performed in the AR Laboratory, aimed at achieving pregnancy in patients with fertility problems both female and male, the characteristics of the surgical area and the work in it and the intervention of the nursing staff in preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative moments. 

The final part of the professional master’s degree will qualify students in the transcendental legal field of assisted reproduction, which will provide students with the ability to resolve multiple legal issues, both in questions related to legality, in the uses and limits of assisted reproduction techniques, as well as in any doubts about the use and approach of informed consents. 

And of course, this very complete professional master’s degree will place special emphasis on the need for collaborative and close work in Assisted Reproduction with the coordinated intervention of the areas of medicine, nursing and embryology. 

With this professional master’s degree, you will be able to combine high-intensity education with your personal and professional life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way”

This professional master’s degree in Assisted Reproductive Nursing offers the characteristics of a course of high scientific, teaching and technological level. These are some of its most notable features: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

A professional master’s degree that will enable you to work in the field of Assisted Reproduction Nursing, with the solvency of a high-level professional”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, TECH ensures that it delivers the targeted capacitive update it intends. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will cover the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this course. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this professional master’s degree in Assisted Reproductive Nursing. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your education.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as an eminently practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice: With the help of an innovative interactive video system, and Learning from an Expert you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

A program created and directed by professional experts in Assisted Reproduction that make this professional master’s degree a unique opportunity for professional growth"

The learning in this professional master’s degree is developed through the most performed didactic methods in online teaching to guarantee that your efforts produce the best results possible"

The objective of this training is to provide nursing professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform their activity in the field of Assisted Reproduction. This professional master’s degree will progressively lead the student to acquire the skills that will propel him/her to a much higher professional level.

Become one of the most sought-after professionals of the moment, with this professional master’s degree in Assisted Reproductive Nursing”

General objectives

• Broaden specific knowledge of each of the areas of work in assisted reproduction
• Enable students to be interdependent and problem solvers
• Facilitate good performance of nursing professionals in order to provide the best care throughout the process

Specific objectives

Module 1. Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction

• Update knowledge on the anatomy of the female and male genitalia to lay the foundations of reproduction
• Expand knowledge of neurophysiology and its relationship to ovogenesis and spermatogenesis
• Introduce nurses to a more biological approach to gametogenesis, emphasizing the importance of meiosis and gamete quality
• Understand the process of fertilization and the first steps of embryonic development in order to introduce nurses to the world of embryology
• Analyze the effect of advanced maternal and paternal age on human reproduction

Module 2. Study of Infertility in Women

• Know the importance of anamnesis to identify toxic habits, stress, sexual problems and hereditary antecedents related to infertility in women
• Understand the basic initial study of infertility to explain it to the patient in clear and simple terms
• Know the complementary tests to examine women in consultation depending on the specific alterations of each patient to individualize them according to the altered factors present 
• Know the most frequent disorders in women with infertility

Module 3. Study of Male Infertility

• Understand the initial examination of males in consultation and the complementary explorations or genetic studies that may be requested 
• Understand the importance of good semen handling practices
• Perform a complete seminogram of the male
• Process samples for Assisted Reproduction techniques
• Understand what sperm freezing consists of and be able to perform it without complications
• Perform semen washings for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C seropositive males, as well as to understand the importance of semen washings and good management, and to know when to recommend them in consultation
• Know the basics of semen donation, both at the consultation and laboratory level
• Learn about three of the most widely used sperm selection techniques currently in use, magnetically labeled cell sorting (MACS), intracytoplasmic injection of morphologically selected spermatozoa (IMSI) and selection based on hyaluronic acid binding, and thus know when to recommend them in consultation
• Know the basics of antioxidant therapy and how to discern which antioxidants have proven efficacy and which do not

Module 4. Genetics and Immunology of Reproduction

• Reinforce basic genetic concepts
• Know the karyotype and its uses 
• Broaden knowledge of molecular genetics
• Understand the origin and etiology of genetic factors influencing human fertility
• Discover the different preimplantation genetic diagnosis tests
• Discuss the most current topics in genetics such as nuclear transfer or epigenetics
• Master the immunological factors affecting Assisted Reproduction
• Distinguish the different origins of immunological problems in reproduction and possible treatments

Module 5. Assisted Reproduction Consultation and the Donor Bank

• Providing continuous care throughout treatment
• Transmit truthful and reassuring information to the patient and learn to coordinate teams
• Ability to transmit emotional support, as we are aware of how hard and long this process can be
• Health education
• Carry out certain delegated activities such as checking serologies, hormone profiles, medical record updates, etc. 
• Facilitate practice management: materials used in a practice, analysis and tests, and cycle coordination
• Learn the functionality of SIRHA 

Module 6. Pharmacology

• Know which are the main folliculogenesis inducers, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them and which are the most widely used at present
• Acquire knowledge about the types of gonadotropins that exist and how treatment results
• Develop knowledge on the management of ovulation inducers
• Acquire a broad knowledge of the hormonal treatments that exist, which are the most commonly used and which are the most effective
• Conduct good health education to teach self-administration of drugs at home
• Know and develop the consequences of ovarian stimulation, and explain ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
• Study the handling and routes of administration of drugs used in Assisted Reproduction
• Promote the participation of nursing personnel during Assisted Reproduction treatments
• Explain clomiphene citrate, when it is used and how it is administered
• Develop what is an aromatase inhibitor and discern its advantages and disadvantages
• Study when gonadotropin analogues are used and in which cases they are used
• Pain management and control after puncture

Module 7. Assisted Reproduction Techniques

• Know the treatments that currently exist in AR and that are appropriate for each patient according to their infertility diagnosis
• Learn from the most basic techniques (AI) to the most complex techniques (IVF/ICSI) to obtain quality embryos that result in pregnancy
• Discover complementary techniques that help improve fertilization rates and facilitate embryo selection to transfer the best embryo to the patient
• Differentiate between freezing and vitrification, and the possibilities of donation
• Understand traceability as an indispensable tool to avoid errors in the laboratory
• Know other techniques that can help in the diagnosis of the patient

Module 8. The Operating Room and the Assisted Reproduction Laboratory

• Know the role of nursing in Assisted Reproduction units, and the surgical areas involved
• Explain the phases of surgery: preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative
• Acquire knowledge about follicular puncture and oocyte retrieval Become familiar with the technique and equipment required and the main nursing activity involved
• Learn how to obtain spermatozoa in patients with azoospermia
• Know the different surgical treatments performed in fertility and which are the most used techniques nowadays
• Know what an Assisted Reproduction laboratory is like, which parts form it and what techniques are performed in each one of them
• Know what the appropriate environmental conditions of an AR laboratory are 
• Have knowledge of the hygiene and clothing of laboratory personnel, the cleanliness of the laboratory and know the mechanisms of risk prevention
• Discover the equipment in the laboratory, as well as its function and care
• Know the quality and cleanliness controls of an AR laboratory
• Know the working times of the laboratory in order to understand which are the most favorable needs for the techniques, and thus perform them at the optimal time, improving teamwork between the operating room and the laboratory, and thus obtain the best results

Module 9. Psychological Support and Special Situations in Assisted Reproduction

• Understand the psychological, social, cognitive and behavioral aspects of infertility
• Detect psychological or emotional alterations derived from infertility diagnoses and/or derived from reproduction treatment
• Provide emotional support to the patient throughout the process of Assisted Reproduction
• Develop communication skills to enable a comprehensive approach to infertility counseling and treatment
• Take into consideration special health situations of the beneficiaries of reproductive treatments, which entails the acquisition of different knowledge and therapeutic skills by nursing professionals
• Know how to manage bereavement and to provide support
• Become familiar with nutritional advice and follow-up in Assisted Reproduction consultation

Module 10. Legal and Ethical Aspects in Assisted Reproduction

• Detail in the portfolio of common services provided by the national health system on Assisted Reproduction issues
• Know how to interpret and use correctly each of the consents used in Assisted Reproduction: Who will deliver them? How should they be explained? What should they contain? Using many practical examples to do so
• Explain the rights of users undergoing Assisted Reproduction techniques, including gamete donors
• Study the ethical principles in order to apply them later to multiple situations that may arise in the field of Assisted Reproduction
• Address and discuss from an ethical and scientific point of view current issues such as surrogacy, post-mortem maternity, advanced maternal age and the influence that religious or cultural beliefs may have on users of Assisted Reproduction techniques
• Generate a debate on access to Assisted Reproduction treatments in private centers: Commercialization of a right? 

A boost to your CV that will give you the competitiveness of the best-prepared professionals on the job market”