Introduction to Travel Health (Two day) - Online Course

Introduction to Travel Health (Two day) - Online Course

Taking place online on the 29th and 30th of April

Please note that there are a limited number of fully funded places on this course for eligible candidates employed within General Practice.

Staff that qualify to attend funded sessions:

Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Specialists
Extended Role Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses
Nursing Associates
Nursing Partners
Nurse Dispensers
Podiatrists
Physiotherapists
Therapists
Paramedics

Fully Funded Travel Health - Full Two Day Course

Description Overview:

This 2-day virtual classroom travel health training course is very comprehensive and therefore covers all the core elements for health professionals wishing to deliver a travel health service. In order to do this we have developed the course in line with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Travel Health Competencies and the new Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM) Travel Health Good Practice Guidelines (RCPSG). 

What’s included?

Courses run from 9.15 – 16.30 on both days

This is an interactive and engaging virtual classroom or webinar travel health training course. Due to the complicated nature of travel health we cover a large amount of subject matter. We will, however, use case studies, group work and discussions to facilitate learning. The course includes the following topics:

• Practical provisions of running a Travel Health Service
• Professional responsibilities for health professionals working in travel health
• How to complete a comprehensive Travel Health Risk Assessment
• Introduction to the ‘5T’s of Tropical Disease’ and the ‘Travel Vaccine Traffic Light’ tools.
• Choosing reliable data sources
• Vaccine preventable diseases – schedules and how to discuss with your traveller, including:
• Diphtheria, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Japanese Encephalitis, Meningococcal Disease ACWY, Polio, Rabies, Tetanus, Tick-borne Encephalitis, Tuberculosis, Typhoid & Yellow Fever

• How to discuss prevention advice regarding:
• Travellers’ diarrhoea & food and water precautions
• vector-borne diseases
• diseases spread by human contact
• diseases and hazards in the environment
• Managing pre-existing conditions

• Special risk groups
• Malaria Risk Assessment and advice using the ABCD approach

Following many years of travel clinic and teaching experience, we have designed this course to help clinicians quickly get to grips with the fundamental components of Travel Health. We also offer a number of practical tips to managing travel clinic appointments.

We provide references and links to resources throughout the training to allow delegates to access original sources of information for further reading and to keep up to date after the course.

Additional Information.

Because this course is for travel health training it does not cover Foundations of Immunisation training,  Seasonal Influenza, Covid-19, or other UK immunisation schedule vaccines. 

Please note that a third-party provider, Health Academy, is running this course; your name and email address will be shared with them after booking. Please contact the Training Hub if you do not wish for your details to be shared. 

If you have come to book and there are no available places, please email traininghub@taurushealthcare.co.uk to express interest, as we can run further cohorts if wanted.