Certificate of Training in Neonatal Nutrition
(7.0 RN CE; 7.0 RD CPEU)
This Certificate of Training is designed to build your expertise in the role nutrition can play in caring for pre-term and full-term infants.
Select your level of experience with this topic, and we’ll display the course curriculum best suited for you.
Enroll in these required courses
Enroll in and complete all five of these required online self-study courses.
If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.
Infant Nutrition Assessment
In this course, Michelle Johnson, RDN, LD will define gestational age and birth weight categories; review the five essential components of infant nutrition assessment; and discuss indicators for preterm and neonatal malnutrition.
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Enteral Nutrition
In this course, you’ll list 4 benefits of human milk; review recommendations for the very low birth weight, preterm infant; and describe ways to initiate and advance enteral feedings in the NICU.
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Parenteral Nutrition
In this updated course, Stephanie Merlino Barr, MS, RDN, LD will identify 3 indications for the use of parenteral nutrition in the neonate; define parenteral dose recommendations for specific nutrients; and describe management of complications associated with parenteral nutrition.
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Discharge and Follow-Up
In this course, you’ll review growth and potential nutrient deficits; discuss human milk and infant formula options for nutritional support at discharge; describe issues related to feeding progression in the high-risk newborn.
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Motivational Interviewing: Application in Working with Patients and Families
This course defines motivational interviewing (MI); identifies the five primary concerns of motivational interviewing; and demonstrates how motivational interviewing can be used to help patients change their behavior.
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Choose Two Electives
Select, enroll in and complete two of these electives.
If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.
Courses
Welcome to the Jungle: Probiotics in the Preterm Infant
In this course, you’ll discuss the alteration of the gut microbiome in preterm infants; review recent evidence-based literature on probiotic use in the NICU; and discuss the risks vs. benefits with the use of probiotics in preterm infants.
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Advances in Human Milk Fortification: Evidence for Preterm Infants - Part 1
In this course, you’ll review the challenges and recommendations for meeting nutritional needs in premature infants; learn about several types of human milk fortifiers; and review different strategies for human milk fortification.
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NICU Currents: Ethical Issues in the NICU
This course identifies the four major principles of ethics, describes five common ethical dilemmas in the NICU, and discusses three ways to address ethical challenges in the NICU.
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Advances in Human Milk Fortification: Evidence for Preterm Infants – Part 2
In this course, you’ll evaluate research findings on human milk (HM) fortifiers; compare evidence for powdered, liquid, and HM-based human milk fortifiers; and review concerns about growth, metabolic acidosis, and osmolality.
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Optimizing the Human Milk Diet for Preterm Infants
In this course, you’ll learn about the advantages of enteral feeding; identify the beneficial effects of a human milk diet in the premature infant; review human milk fortification strategies; and plan a discharge diet for a preterm infant.
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Live Events
Challenges and Updates in Maternal- Infant Care
Maternal and Neonatal Care and Challenges
Pediatric and Neonatal Nutritional Assessment: Determining Status, Defining Malnutrition
Trending Topics in Neonatal Care
Updates in Perinatal and Neonatal Care
See if these live events are available in your region.
Note: Attending an all-day program could provide the additional 2 hours of the 7 hours to receive a Certificate of Training in Adult Malnutrition.
Final Exam
The final exam is a capstone assessment of what you’ve learned through the course curriculum. Please take this exam only after you’ve completed each course.
Supplemental Materials
These materials aren’t required as part of your certificate of training, but we think they’ll play a helpful role in your clinical practice.
Infographic for patients: Human Milk Fortifiers
Infographic for HCPs: Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Infographic for HCPs: 2’-FL Human Milk Oligosaccharide
Infographic for patients: Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Infographic for patients: Cow’s Milk Allergy
Enroll in these required courses
Enroll in and complete all five of these required online self-study courses.
If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.
Acid-Base Balance and Blood Gas Interpretation in the Neonate
Reviews principles of acid-base balance in the neonate.
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Advances in Human Milk Fortification: Evidence for Preterm Infants - Part 1
In this course, you’ll review the challenges and recommendations for meeting nutritional needs in premature infants; learn about several types of human milk fortifiers; and review different strategies for human milk fortification.
CLOSE
Advances in Human Milk Fortification: Evidence for Preterm Infants – Part 2
In this course, you’ll evaluate research findings on human milk (HM) fortifiers; compare evidence for powdered, liquid, and HM-based human milk fortifiers; and review concerns about growth, metabolic acidosis, and osmolality.
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Handling Human Milk & Formula in Healthcare Facilities
In this course, you’ll learn about the risks associated with human milk and formula handling in the hospital setting; review current US and Canadian standards and best practices; and describe how centralized handling and bar code scanning can reduce errors.
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Motivational Interviewing: Application in Working with Patients and Families
This course defines motivational interviewing (MI); identifies the five primary concerns of motivational interviewing; and demonstrates how motivational interviewing can be used to help patients change their behavior.
CLOSE
Choose Two Electives
Select, enroll in and complete two of these electives.
If you’d like, you can also take many of these programs in a group setting. Contact your Abbott representative to schedule a program in your facility. If you need assistance, contact us.
Courses
Welcome to the Jungle: Probiotics in the Preterm Infant
In this course, you’ll discuss the alteration of the gut microbiome in preterm infants; review recent evidence-based literature on probiotic use in the NICU; and discuss the risks vs. benefits with the use of probiotics in preterm infants.
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NICU Currents: Current Use of Donor Human Milk in the NICU: Evidence-Based Practice
This course identifies the benefits of using donor human milk; describes "milk sharing," and several notes of caution for parents; and discusses the differences and similarities between a mother's own milk and donated human milk.
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Maximizing Infant Nutrition Through Human Milk Oligosaccharides
This course defines the role of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in infant development; identifies the multifunctional benefits of 2’-Fucosyllactose (2’-FL) HMO; and reviews the clinical impact of 2’-FL HMO on immune development.
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Emerging and Converging Fields of Human Milk Oligosaccharides (Hmos) and the Gut Microbiome
This course defines the function and review the clinical evidence supporting the role of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs); describes potential health care and development benefits of 2’-FL HMO in preterm and term infants; and describes the colonization of the microbiome.
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NICU Currents: The Neonatal Microbiome – Improving Outcomes with Prebiotics and Probiotics
In this course, you’ll review prebiotics and probiotics; identify risk factors that can alter the neonatal microbiome; and name two common complications developed by premature infants that may be prevented by probiotic administration.
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NICU Currents: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: An Escalating Problem for Newborns, Families and Nurses( Part 1) and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: We Aren't Done Yet!! (Part 2)
This course identifies the signs and symptoms of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), and discusses some of the pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic intervention strategies for the newborn with NAS.
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NICU Currents: Ethical Issues in the NICU
This course identifies the four major principles of ethics, describes five common ethical dilemmas in the NICU, and discusses three ways to address ethical challenges in the NICU.
CLOSE
Optimizing the Human Milk Diet for Preterm Infants
In this course, you’ll learn about the advantages of enteral feeding; identify the beneficial effects of a human milk diet in the premature infant; review human milk fortification strategies; and plan a discharge diet for a preterm infant.
CLOSE
Live Events
Challenges and Updates in Maternal- Infant Care
Maternal and Neonatal Care and Challenges
Pediatric and Neonatal Nutritional Assessment: Determining Status, Defining Malnutrition
Trending Topics in Neonatal Care
Updates in Perinatal and Neonatal Care
See if these live events are available in your region.
Note: Attending an all-day program could provide the additional 2 hours of the 7 hours to receive a Certificate of Training in Adult Malnutrition.
Final Exam
The final exam is a capstone assessment of what you’ve learned through the course curriculum. Please take this exam only after you’ve completed each course.
Supplemental Materials
These materials aren’t required as part of your certificate of training, but we think they’ll play a helpful role in your clinical practice.
Infographic for patients: Human Milk Fortifiers
Infographic for HCPs: Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Infographic for HCPs: 2’-FL Human Milk Oligosaccharide
Infographic for patients: Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Infographic for patients: Cow’s Milk Allergy
Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:
Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.
Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:
Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (RO002), is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) will receive continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/materials. Continuing Professional Education Provider Accreditation does not constitute endorsement by CDR of a provider, program, or materials.
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