CETA Health Travel health Update

This Travel Health Update is intended for nurses who have experience carrying out travel health consultations and who wish to update their knowledge and skills, meeting the requirement for an annual travel health update (RCN 2018 Competencies: Travel health nursing: career and competence development| Royal College of Nursing page 23 point 6). It covers many topics including: Covid-19: how to advise your traveller, an update on travel vaccines, malaria, professional issues and the latest developments in travel health.

Points to consider

You will require:

  • To access this course you will need a computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad with a large screen (i.e. bigger than a phone)
  • 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). We do not recommend accessing at work as colleagues may not be able to resist asking for your help!
  • Access to Microsoft Teams as the course will be run through this.

Course Programme

  • What’s new in travel medicine?
  • Covid-19:
    • How to advise travellers during the pandemic?
    • Identifying high risk traveller/travel
    • Revised risk assessment process
  • Measles & travel
  • Provision of an NHS travel health service
  • Malaria update
  • Other risks
    • Dengue & zika
  • Travel vaccine update
  • Problems encountered in practice Q&A
  • Which are the best resources to use?
  • How to stay up to date

Your details will be shared with CETA Health.

Please note if you have not already supplied us with your registration number you will be contacted by us as we will need this information to secure your allocation of CPD funding.