Course Name: Introduction to Travel Health
Cost: £170.00 per person
Who is this course for: It has been developed for Healthcare Practitioners, e.g. Practice Nurses and Pharmacists, who undertake travel health consultations
Recommended Frequency: Once then Travel Health updates as required
Downloadable Flyer: Travel Health Flyer
Course Information:
The learning will be structured with interactive elements, using case studies, practical activities and group discussions. Covering all elements of travel health consultations, including:
- Competencies and requirements
- Consent
- Insect bite avoidance
- Non-vaccine preventable diseases
- Professional issues
- Risk assessment
- Sources of information
- Travel vaccines
Course Learning Objectives:
To provide healthcare professionals with tools to offer travellers comprehensive consultations, including:
- Understanding the importance of risk assessments
- Accessing up to date resources
- A good general knowledge of travel vaccines
- Understanding vaccines and non-vaccine preventable diseases
- The diseases they prevent
- Delivering appropriate preventative advice
- Be able to plan a vaccine schedule
- Increased knowledge of malaria and the ABCs of malaria,
- Deliver evidence-based advice to travellers about malaria prevention
- Demonstrating an understanding of professional issues in the consultation
