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"

Nutrition is a vitally important issue due to the high prevalence of childhood obesity and its long-term consequences. Nurses have a key role in promoting healthy eating habits and in the prevention and treatment of nutrition-related diseases in children. In addition, pediatric endocrinology is a specialty that deals with hormonal and metabolic diseases in children and adolescents, which are often related to nutrition. 

This postgraduate diploma in Endocrinology and Nursing Care in Child Nutrition responds to the current needs of nurses by providing up-to-date and rigorous training to identify and address related problems in these cases. All this through an informative compendium of great impact, accompanied Cone audiovisual resources, complementary readings and practical exercises developed with the Relearning methodology for a more immersive experience.  

In addition, the program is developed in a 100% online format, which allows students to study at any time and place, adapting their learning to their own pace and schedule, without having to go to an on-site center. It also has the participation of experts and specialists, offering a quality and immersive experience. 

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 Endocrinology and Nursing Care in Child Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include:  

• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created contain information that is indispensable 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 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"

It includes clinical cases to bring 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 nursing professionals can master in a practical and rigorous way the study of of Endocrinology and Care in Child Nutrition . 

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 on new trends in human nutrition, in both health and disease situations, through evidence-based nursing
• To 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 audio-visual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulus through continuing education and research
• Train 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
• To assess and calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease at any stage of the life cycle
• To review the new dietary guidelines, nutritional objectives, and recommended dietary allowances (RDA)
• To manage food databases and composition tables
• To acquire skills in reading and understanding new food labeling methods
• To identify children at nutritional risk who are eligible for specific support
• To evaluate and monitor the supervision of children on nutritional support
• To update knowledge on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding
• To acquire technical knowledge on the handling of systems and devices necessary for nutritional support in critically ill patients
• Identify children suffering from malnutrition
• Explain the correct nutritional support for a malnourished child
• Relate the different types of malnutrition and their impact on the developing organism
• To reflect on the etiology, repercussions and treatment of childhood obesity
• Update the nutritional treatment of the most common deficiency diseases in our environment
• Review and update the role of fats  in children’s diets.
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children
• To identify eating behavior disorders
• Review the pathogenesis and treatment of inborn errors of metabolism
• To update knowledge on the treatment of dyslipidemias and the role that nutrition plays in their development and treatment
• To manage the dietetic treatment of the diabetic child
• To assess the nutritional support of children with cancer in different situations
• To reflect on the role of nutrition in autistic children
• To review the rationale for dietary support of acute diarrhea
• Update the management of nutritional support in inflammatory diseases
• To reflect on the relationship between constipation and infant nutrition
• Identify exclusion foods in the diets of children with celiac disease

Make the most of this opportunity and take the step to get up to date with the latest developments in Nursing Endocrinology and Care in Child Nutrition"