Enroll in this program and TECH will make you an excellently qualified nurse to check the correct performance of enteral and parenteral nutrition in hospitalized children”

Advances in Pediatric Clinical Nutrition have made it possible to solve feeding problems that were previously neglected or underestimated, such as complications arising from the bidirectional interaction between drugs and nutrients. Also, food allergies, obesity and childhood diabetes, among others, are now better prevented. In addition, new techniques and specific diets have been developed. For a nurse, keeping up-to-date in this field is crucial. In this way, they will be able to provide these patients with the most advanced care. However, most educational programs address all of these topics with a traditional theory-based approach. 

In this context, TECH stands out from its competitors and offers a practical and on-site program in Pediatric Clinical Nutrition for Nursing Through it, students will have access to state-of-the-art technological resources and will be able to apply increasingly innovative supervision methods. In addition, from the first day, they will work directly with real patients, therefore facilitating the development of the most demanded skills in their professional framework.  

On the other hand, this Internship program will allow participants to interact directly with great experts in Pediatric Clinical Nutrition, which will provide them with extensive experience in this field. The nurse will be supervised at all times by an assistant tutor, who will ensure the progressive insertion in different dynamics of clinical work. In addition, this program will run from Monday to Friday, completing 120 educational hours in total. At the end, graduates will be ready to practice health care procedures in this area with the strongest support in the latest scientific evidence. 

Enjoy an intensive 3-week stay in a reputable center and get up to date on the latest clinical procedures to achieve professional growth"

This Internship program will allow nurses to be up-to-date with the latest assessment and treatment procedures in the area of Pediatric Clinical Nutrition. Through a 100% practical and on-site learning method, graduates will be able to develop skills in an intensive on-site internship in a prestigious hospital institution. 

Thanks to this qualification you will use the most recent monitoring technologies for pregnant patients remotely and in hospital”

General Objectives

• Update the pediatrician's knowledge on new trends in child nutrition, in both health and pathological situations 
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to child pathologies, where nutrition plays a fundamental role in treatment 
• Develop technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training  

Specific Objectives

• Review the basics of a balanced diet in the different stages of the life cycle, as well as in exercise 
• Assess and calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease at any stage of the life cycle 
• Review the new dietary guidelines, nutritional objectives, and recommended dietary allowances (RDA) 
• Manage food databases and composition tables 
• Explain the proper reading of new food labeling 
• Update the drug-nutrient interaction and its implication in the patient’s treatment 
• Identify the relationship between nutrition and immune status 
• Define the fundamental of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics 
• Incorporate phytotherapy as a coadjuvant treatment in clinical practice 
• Review the psychological bases and biopsychosocial factors that affect human eating behavior 
• Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status 
• Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological and pharmacological data in the nutritional assessment of the patient and in their dietary-nutritional treatment 
• Predict patients’ nutritional risk 
• Manage the different types of nutritional surveys to assess food intake 
• Early detection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency 
• 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 
• Describe the composition and utilities of new foods 
• Explain basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology, and toxicology related to food safety 
• Evaluate and maintain adequate hygiene and food safety practices, applying current legislation
• Reflect on the usefulness of the school cafeteria as an educational vehicle 
• Explain the relationship of physiology and nutrition in the different stages of infant development 
• Analyze the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different childhood pathologies 
• Identify the repercussion that a pregnant and lactating mother's nutrition has on the intrauterine growth and evolution of new-borns and infants 
• Describe the nutritional requirements in the different periods of childhood 
• Perform nutritional assessment in pediatrics 
• Evaluate and prescribe physical activity as a factor involved in nutritional status 
• Calculate child and adolescent athlete dietary needs and risks 
• Review current trends in premature infant nutrition 
• Explain 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 
• Analyze the operation of milk banks 
• Describe new formulae used in infant feeding 
• Reflect on new trends and models in infant feeding 
• Reflect and identify risk factors in school and adolescent nutrition 
• Incorporate the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to pediatric nutrition into clinical practice 
• Identify children at nutritional risk who are eligible for specific support 
• Evaluate and monitor the supervision of children on nutritional support 
• Explain the new developments and available evidence on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding 
• Identify children suffering from malnutrition 
• Describe the correct nutritional support for a malnourished child 
• Classify the different types of malnutrition and their impact on the developing organism 
• Reflect on the etiology, repercussions, and treatment of childhood obesity 
• Explain the nutritional treatment of the most common deficiency diseases in our environment 
• Define the role that fats play in children’s diets 
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children 
• Identify eating behavior disorders 
• Review the pathogenesis and update the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism 
• Explain the treatment of dyslipidemias and the role that nutrition plays in their genesis and treatment 
• Manage diabetic children's diet 
• Assess the nutritional support of children with cancer in different situations 
• Reflect on the role of nutrition in autistic children 
• Review the rationale for dietary support of acute diarrhea 
• Describe the management of nutritional support in inflammatory diseases 
• Reflect on the relationship between constipation and infant nutrition 
• Identify exclusion foods in the diets of children with celiac disease 
• Define the dietary management of children with nephropathy 
• Explain the latest evidence on food allergies and intolerances 
• Identify dietary factors related to bone metabolism 
• Review the dietary management of oral cavity pathologies in children 
• Explain managing children with gastroesophageal reflux 
• Explain the implications that nutrition can have in the treatment of liver diseases 
• Describe the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated 
• Identify the appropriate nutritional therapy for pediatric patients with chronic pulmonary pathology

This qualification offers an immersive and intensive learning system that, after a 3-week internship, will allow you to apply the most up-to-date nursing praxis in Pediatric Clinical Nutrition”