Travel medicine practiced in other healthcare settings, such as workplaces, college health clinics, emergency departments, pharmacies, and supermarkets.
[1] Their work covers pre-travel care, focusing on disease prevention and health promotion while patients are away from home.
[1] These nurses offer health counseling and education for travelers about managing chronic conditions away from home.
Vaccine recommendations consider a client's medical history (including immunizations), age, pregnancy, allergies, date of departure, and trip duration.
[2] The final phase focuses on health education and counseling, since most travel-health issues are not preventable by vaccines.
Air-travel hazards include jet lag, deep vein thrombosis, airborne illnesses, and exposure to air rage.
Jet lag, sleep disruption, and other sleep-related disorders may occur due to travel across time zones.
[4][11][12] The ability to prescribe requires appropriate training and professional development: reliable, up-to-date and recognized sources; an understanding of the restrictions associated with prescriptions, patient group directions (PGDs) and patient-specific directions (PSDs), and the principles of risk assessment and their application to the traveler.
[7][2] Travel health nurses from the UK, Japan and Australia were asked about the difficulties they faced in their job.
Some patients fail to understand poor consequences: the chronically ill, pregnant women, infants or the elderly.