Objectives
Planning a holiday or perhaps an emergency trip isn’t easy and can become very time consuming and due to the lack of convenient and accessible travel clinics many travellers miss out on receiving advice before travelling abroad.
Here is a scenario. Your customer has decided on where they will travel to and booked their trip. Now it’s time to start thinking about their health and safety whilst abroad. Your community pharmacy is an ideal location to provide customers with practical advice from sun exposure to road safety.
This counter excellence module will explore how customers can make their journey easier by your community pharmacy becoming a health ‘one stop shop’ to pick up pre travel necessities and advice.
Contents
- Pre travel checklist
- Travel Insurance
- Travel Precautions and support
- Travel related diseases preventable with vaccines
- Non-vaccine preventable diseases and advice to give
- Travelling with medication
- Sun protection
- Travellers’ diarrhoea and sickness
- Contents of a travel first aid box
- Mosquito and other insect bite avoidance and treatment
- Animal bites and Rabies
- Food, water, and personal hygiene
- Long haul travel
- Travel Health Promotion
- Post travel counselling and support
- Further reading and signposting
