This course will be taking place on the 3rd and 10th March 2025 at Victoria Conference Centre. You must attend both days.
Are you interested in expanding your practice and developing your skills in the exciting and dynamic specialist area of Travel Health?
This 2 day, face to face, course is designed for practice nurses not currently practicing travel health but interested in gaining a basic understanding of what is required to carry out a safe and effective consultation. It will also help with decision making regarding vaccines and malaria advice.
Following the pandemic and restrictions, the desire for travelling again has never been so great and aiding your patients to have a healthy and safe trip is a key role of practice nurses.
The course will cover risk assessments, food and water borne diseases, travellers diarrhoea, air borne diseases, insect bite avoidance, zoonotic and other diseases, as well as examining specialist groups. This course will be interactive with the opportunity to explore recourses, website and examine case studies.
Finalised agenda to follow.
Cost of Course
This course is provided free of charge to members of the Primary Care Education Programme. For non-members, a charge of £372 (including VAT) applies.
This course is for staff working within the Cornwall healthcare economy. We reserve the right to cancel ineligible bookings. If you work outside Cornwall and are interested in this course, please email kernowhealthcic.workforce@nhs.net
If you need to cancel a booked place on a course, please do so giving sufficient notice for the place to be reallocated. As per our terms and conditions, we reserve the right to charge for places cancelled less than 5 working days prior to the course start (unless otherwise stated), or failure to take up the place on the day of the course. This applies to both members and non-members of the Primary Care Education Programme.