The role of the nursing professional is essential in the maintenance of life support in the neonatal patient"

Neonatology is a discipline in constant evolution, which is highly dependent on technology and new pharmacological treatments. This context makes the updating of procedures in neonatal critical care, both those performed in the Neonatal ICU and in other care settings outside the ICU (emergency units, primary care centers...), of paramount importance to maintain the provision of care based on the latest scientific evidence and to ensure the safety of the baby.

This program includes the most important aspects of the use of pharmacology and routes of administration in the newborn patient, with a special interest in contraindications, necessary equipment and access techniques performed by the nursing professional. In addition, it presents an update on neonatal assessment and examination, NICU admission procedures and nursing care.

This Course of Administration of Medications in Neonates for Nurses is oriented to facilitate the update of the most used procedures, in a practical way, to  contribute with quality and safety to the recovery of the newborn, to improve its prognosis and to avoid the sequelae of severe pathology.

Improve the care of your newborn patients with the training offered by the Course of Administration of Medications in Neonatology for Nurses"

This postgraduate certificate in Administration of Neonatal Medications for Nurses contains the most complete and up to date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the course are:

• Development of clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties. The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents of which they are composed provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• New developments in nursing care and assessment of the critically ill newborn patient
• It includes the most commonly used access techniques in the NICU for medication administration
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the presented clinical situations
• 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

This course may be the best investment you can make in the selection of a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Administration of Neonatal Medications for Nurses , you will obtain a postgraduate certificate from TECH Technological University"

Its teaching staff includes specialists of recognized prestige in the field of neonatology, who bring to this training the experience of their work in the main health centers in the country.

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 an immersive training program to train in real situations.

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the nursing professional must try to solve the different situations of common practice that arise throughout the course. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system developed by renowned experts in neonatal critical patient care and with extensive teaching experience.

The course allows training in simulated environments, which provide immersive learning programmed to train for real situations"

It includes clinical cases to bring the program's degree as close as possible to the reality of care in Nursing"

The structure of the contents has been designed by the team of professionals knowledgeable about the implications of training in daily nursing practice in the neonatal intensive care unit, aware of the relevance of current training in the professional, ensuring the approach of the main issues in the current development of care for the critical newborn patient.

This postgraduate certificatein Administration of Neonatal Medications for Nurses contains the most complete and up to date scientific program on the market"

General Objective

• Update the professional in the use of pharmacology and the main routes of drug administration used in the neonatal patient, as well as the nursing care performed in the neonatal intensive care unit

Specific Objectives

• Update nursing care oriented to the satisfaction of the needs derived from the newborn's health problems and to the prevention of complications, guaranteeing a safe and quality practice
• Analyze the importance of providing comprehensive care to the newborn from an ethical and legal perspective
• Update the procedures, diagnostic tests and treatments derived from the different health problems in the newborn taking into account the different levels of care
• Update the integral care of the neonate with a surgical process to help in the optimal restoration of health and to identify, intervene and/or refer for possible complications
• Review the indication of medical devices and/or drugs, assessing the expected benefits and associated risks
• Develop the ability to apply theoretical knowledge in daily practice
• Identify the differences between the neonate, the child and the adolescent (pediatric ages)
• Differentiate between neonatal stages, as well as neonatal stages by gestational age and neonatal stages by birth weight
  Describe the anatomical and physiological characteristics of the normal newborn
• Explain the somatometry of the newborn, as well as its morphological and physiological characteristics
• Assess the entire examination process, sequence of physical examination and complete physical examination of the newborn, focusing primarily on the head and neck region, the torso and the limbs
• Update the procedures for performing the complete neurological examination
  Evaluate the structure and organization of the neonatology service, as well as its location, the necessary equipment and materials, and the necessary human resources
• Describe the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Calculate the layout of the cribs, physical space requirements, equipment and materials, and human resources needed
• Define the profiles and positions of the "nursing team" as well as its operating system:
  “Primary Nursing”
• Review the principles of drug administration in the Neonatology Unit, as well as the use of the different routes: enteral, rectal, intramuscular, subcutaneous and intravenous routes
• Describe the routes of drug administration, the necessary equipment and its procedure
• Update the techniques necessary for the maintenance of the IV, the removal of the IV and the occurrence of possible complications
• Record precautions, contraindications, as well as the occurrence of possible complications that may arise with specific forms of drug administration
• Update newborn umbilical artery and vein cannulation procedures
• Assess the contraindications and the complications of umbilical cannulation
• Establish the procedure on how to perform catheter removal, the precautions to be taken, contraindications and complications