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The increasing aging of the population forces certain patients to follow treatments outside hospital walls, something that has been favored by technological advances in healthcare. It is at this point home hospitalization arises, along with its corresponding nursing, which aims to improve patient quality of life in cases of chronic diseases, those who find it difficult to travel to be treated in hospital centers. 

In these cases, nursing must focus on patient care as if they were at the hospital but in the patients' immediate environment, the home where they reside, without compromising quality of care or the use of hospital-intensive resources. 

We live, in an aging society, with exacerbated chronic problems that need outpatient care, so it is necessary for nurses to specialize in this field to advance in their profession.

This program is focused on deepening the understanding of all aspects which make home hospitalization unique and different from other medical specialties. It also demonstrates the weaknesses and future opportunities we have ahead of us, making the most of new educative technology available.

The content is presented in a rigorous way with the latest scientific evidence and clinical cases which help to increase our knowledge. This is with the aim of sharing experiences and new techniques that are already used by medical colleagues around the world.

Technological improvements allow for home hospitalization, which makes it necessary for nurses to be trained to know the latest advances and to know how best to treat their patients.

This postgraduate diploma in Nursing Care for Home Hospitalization contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• More than 100 case studies presented by experts in home hospitalization, management of complex chronic patients and palliative care. 
• 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.
• Latest information on the role of nursing professionals in Home Hospitalization.
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning.
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the situations that are presented to the student.
• With special emphasis on evidence-based nursing and research methodologies in Home Hospitalization.
• 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

This postgraduate diploma is the best investment you can make when selecting a refresher program, for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Patient Care in Home Hospitalization, you will obtain a qualification from TECH Technological University"

Its teaching staff is made up of prestigious and renowned professionals, with a long history in health care, teaching and research, who have worked in different hospitals throughout Spain, developing professional and teaching experience that they deliver in an extraordinary way in this specialization.

The methodological design of this Postgraduate Certificate Diploma by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, integrates the latest advances in educational technology for the creation of numerous multimedia educational tools that allow professionals, based primarily on the scientific method, to face the solution of real problems in their daily clinical practice, which will allow them to progress in the acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills that will impact their future professional work.

Studies that each of the contents generated, as well as the videos, self-assessments, clinical cases and modular exams, have been thoroughly reviewed, up-to-date and integrated by the professors and the team of experts that make up the working group, in order to facilitate the learning process in a didactic and gradual manner that will allow the objectives of the teaching program to be achieved.

This postgraduate diploma will allow For Nursing professionals to build their knowledge"

Take the opportunity to learn about the latest advances in Nursing Care for Home Hospitalization and improve your patient care"

The main objective of the postgraduate diploma is the improvement of health professionals, based on the acquisition of the most up-to-date and innovative scientific knowledge in the field of Home Hospitalization, the management of complex chronic patients and diseases with palliative needs and their treatment that will allow them to develop the skills that will turn their daily clinical practice into a bastion of the standards of the best scientific evidence available, with a critical, innovative, multidisciplinary and integrative sense.

The postgraduate diploma will help healthcare professionals to excel in their profession"

General Objective

• Bring nursing professionals’ knowledge up to date using the best scientific evidence for the management of illnesses and patients in the field of home hospitalization as an efficient and effective alternative to conventional hospitalization

Specific learning objectives of each module

Module 1. Management of Infections at Home Criteria for Admission and Exclusion, Management, Discharge Criteria

• Manage infectious diseases in the home setting. 
• Integrate knowledge of common types of diseases 
• Categorize admission and exclusion criteria for patient referral

Module 2. Palliative Care in Oncological Patients 

• Highlight the importance of morbidity and mortality due to multi-resistant infections in complex patients with special needs.
• Explain the most common pathogenic mechanisms and neoplasms associated with the advanced palliative needs. 
• Study the current pathophysiological elements between non-transmissible chronic diseases and infections. 
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the most innovative clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic elements of diseases in the home.

Module 3. Pain Management in Home Hospitalization 

• Know the concept of pain and identify other associated factors involved in pain
• Determine types of pain according to physiopathology
• Recognize the main clinical syndromes which are possible to treat and monitor from home hospitalization

Module 4. Nutrition in Home Hospitalization 

• Review basic concepts in nutrition for the hospitalized patient at home 
• Diagnose, manage and nourish geriatric patients 
• Nursing care guided by the nursing care plan and the application of health education to the patient and family

Module 5. Nursing Care in Home Hospitalization 

• Explain the management of complex chronic patients from the home, in order to avoid exacerbations and reduce the severity 
• Identify the important role of the management figure in cases both in hospital as well as in the community. 
• Highlight the need to consider vaccination in patients with special needs in order to reduce the burden of disease.

Make the most of the opportunity and take the step to get up-to-date on the latest developments in Nursing Patient Care in Home Hospitalization"