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22nd & 23rd November 2022 | 08:45am - 16:30pm (2 full days)
Online
FREE
- Course Type: Online Training
- Available for: GP, ANP, Clinical Pharmacist, Lead Nurse, Nurse, Paramedic, Pharmacists
- Accreditation Provider: Course delivered by a Travel Health Specialist Nurse -RGN FFTM RCPS(Glasg) Training in line with national guidance RCPSG (2020) Good Practice Guidance for Providing a Travel Health Service (rcpsg.ac.uk)
- Funding: Free
- Spaces Remaining: 2
New to Travel Health (2-day) Course
22nd & 23rd November 2022 08:45am - 16:30pm
Online training
Course overview:
The New to Travel Health course will provide attendees with the knowledge base and tools to complete a travel risk assessment, so potential risks and hazards can be identified for travellers.
This will inform the healthcare practitioner what protective measures (including advice, vaccinations and malaria treatment) to recommend to travellers, for their specific needs (based on PMH and travel details) and a negotiated travel management plan can be implemented/agreed.
Staff completing this course must be registered healthcare practitioners and have completed the New Immunisers’ (2-day) Foundation course (PHE, 2018) prior to completing this course.
Staff will need an identified mentor who is trained in travel health consultations and a period of supervision will be required to complete the competency assessment tool provided (RCPSG, 2020).
What will I learn?
• Understand the importance and process of risk assessment of the traveller and trip and how to apply this in practice.
• Have a good general knowledge of travel vaccines, the diseases they prevent and how to be able to deliver appropriate preventative advice to the traveller.
• Be aware of non-vaccine preventable diseases and topical issues in travel health and to be able to provide evidence-based advice to travellers.
• Understand how to access the most up to date resources for use in the travel consultation and to identify when it is appropriate to use them.
• To be able to plan vaccination schedules for itineraries.
• Have increased knowledge of Global malaria and malaria in travellers returning to the UK.
• Be able to identify which travellers are at higher risk of getting malaria and which are more likely to die from malaria, tailoring their advice to travellers accordingly.
• Understand the principles of bite avoidance, malaria chemoprophylaxis and the importance of prompt malaria diagnosis.
• To be able to deliver evidence-based advice to travellers about malaria prevention.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional issues in the Travel consultation.
Course delivered by a Travel Health Specialist Nurse -RGN FFTM RCPS(Glasg) Training in line with national guidance RCPSG (2020) Good Practice Guidance for Providing a Travel Health Service (rcpsg.ac.uk)
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