Key features
This 20 credit masters-level module will allow you to explore the nutritional and dietetic management of preterm and sick infants in the neonatal period and beyond in order to optimise growth and development and minimise post-natal growth restriction, including the management of complex neonatal nutritional problems.
The module will also provide you with the opportunity to understand, debate and critically evaluate the evidence base for the nutritional and dietetic management of preterm infants and infants with complex neonatal nutritional problems.
You'll examine current clinical practices which will enable you to develop parental and enteral feeding strategies to meet the complex needs of sick-term and preterm infants during their neonatal care and during the growing phase prior to and post-discharge.
This module can be taken as a standalone short course or as a pathway-specific module towards the
MSc Advanced Professional Practice in Paediatric Dietetics and is accredited by the British Dietetics Association.