Introduction to Travel Health Webinars

An interactive and engaging approach to delivering a live streamed training session via Zoom. The trainer uses an interactive tool which can be used for voting, taking part in case studies, sharing ideas/opinions, Q&A’s and makes the course more interesting by being interactive. Delegates can ask questions and interact with the trainer.

Aimed at:

This two day Introduction to Travel Health course is intended for nurses/health professionals who may be new to the field of Travel Health, those returning to travel health after a long gap, or for those already practicing who may not have undertaken formal training in the subject and who wish to update and expand on their current knowledge.

https://rcpsg.ac.uk/travel-medicine/good-practice-guidance-for-providing-a-travel-health-service (page 16) was states that 2 days travel health training is essential followed by a period of supervised practice before providing travel consultations. The 2 day Introduction to travel health course covers the syllabus recommended in appendix C, including covid-19 and travel, risk assessment, travel vaccines, non-vaccine preventable illnesses, malaria, professional issues, and the latest developments in travel health.

When delegates have completed the course, it is recommended that they have a period of supervision in clinical practice whilst they develop their clinical skills and are assessed by their supervising practitioner as competent to undertake a travel consultation.

The trainer:

Cathy O’Malley RGN FFTM RCPS(Glasg) is a Travel Health Nurse Specialist with 14 years clinical experience in a travel clinic. She has a Travel medicine diploma and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons Glasgow. She is an experienced trainer and is passionate about travel medicine and passing her knowledge on to others.

Objectives

Having completed the course for delegates to

• 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 content:

• The travel consultation
• Tools and resources
• Risk assessment
• Vaccine preventable diseases
• Non-vaccine preventable diseases
• Other health risks
• Case studies and scheduling of vaccines
• Legal aspects and responsibilities of the travel health practitioner
• Malaria
• Mosquito borne diseases
• The complex traveller
• FGM & the travel consultation
• Covid-19 & advising travellers

Points to consider:

Delegates will require:

• To access course on a computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad with a large screen (i.e. bigger than a phone) with working speakers & microphone
• A separate mobile phone (We use menti.com for the interactive element of the course). The trainer will provide a code for this when the meeting starts.
• A good internet connection
• To be in an environment where you will not be disturbed, as you will need to be present for the whole course (as it is interactive & live).
• After the course: you will require a colleague to be your supervising practitioner to help develop your skills in clinical practice and assess your competency prior to you undertaking travel consultations alone.