Do You Know?

• How and when to direct patients to public health or to an ISTM certified practitioner?
• How to manage a patient with a chronic disease who is traveling abroad?
• When to prescribe for traveler’s diarrhea?

USask CPE training will help you navigate vaccine and travel health prescribing.

Guideline and Implementation Training

This training is strongly recommended before the implementation of vaccine prescribing and provision of travel health services in your practice.

This USask CPE training will focus on the process for implementing vaccine prescribing or travel health services. The training will be presented by Certified Travel Health pharmacists in SK and USask CPE/medSask. The medSask prescribing guidelines and forms are less detailed, but more complex then previous minor ailments guidelines. This training will also help with understanding the public vs private systems of vaccine immunization.

We will not be covering disease or vaccine specific therapeutics. You will gain that knowledge for travel health by taking the recommended online Travel Health Educator course listed below.

In order to provide travel health services for medium and high risk patients , you will require an ISTM Certified Travel Health designation.

Presenters

• Mary Fraser, Continuing Professional Development for Pharmacy Professionals
• Kristjana Gudmundson, Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan, ISTM Certified
• Amy Damm & Sara Storle, ISTM Certified Travel Health Consultants
• Dr. Tania Diener, Chief Medical Health Officer (MHO)

*The Travel Medicine Program online course is not a pre-requisite for the USask CPE Guideline and Implementation Training, but you will gain more from the USask CPE training if you have completed it.

USask CPE will issue a statement of completion once the BC Travel Medicine Program and USask CPE Training are both complete.

USask CPE Training Learning Outcomes

1. Explain stakeholder involvement and interpret regulatory issues surrounding Public Health, physicians, client, and pharmacist’s roles and responsibilities for domestic vaccine-preventable disease immunizations
2. Assess clients, make recommendations, and prescribe immunizations for domestic vaccine-preventable disease
3. Document according to medSask guidelines for domestic vaccine-preventable disease immunization.
4. Manage and document adverse effects of immunization according to Saskatchewan Public Health and Health Canada policies and procedures
5. Discuss re-imbursement for prescribing and administering domestic vaccine-preventable disease immunizations

Low-Risk Traveller/Destination Travel Health Training

1. Assess clients, make recommendations, and prescribe immunizations and medications for low risk travel
2. Educate patients about disease prevention and health maintenance resources and provide supplementary information (e.g. handouts, apps)
3. Document according to medSask guidelines low-risk travel prescribing
4. Develop travel health operational policies for the pharmacy

 Moderate- to High-Risk Travel Health Training

1. Assess clients, make recommendations, and prescribe immunizations for medium to high risk travel vaccines.
   • Explain informed consent to clients for prescribing and providing medium to high risk travel vaccines
   • Evaluate resources (including medSask guidelines) and provincial and national immunization schedules to conduct client assessment and prescribe vaccines for medium to high risk travel vaccines
   • Refer eligible clients to Public Health
   • Identify and refer “special-cases” clients to nurse practitioner or family physician
   • Conduct post-travel assessment, follow-up, and documentation when appropriate
2. Educate patients about disease prevention and health maintenance resources and provide supplementary information (e.g. handouts, apps) for high-risk travel destinations and/or clients.
3. Construct pharmacy documentation policies according to SCPP guidelines for medium to high risk travel related immunizations and physician/Public Health notification.
4. Conduct an operational needs assessment to set up a pharmacy travel health practice.
5. Review advanced travel based cases with chief Medical Health Officer (MHO) Dr. Tania Diener.

Contact USask CPE to register

Vaccine Administration Refresher Course

Do you want to take a refresher course on vaccine administration?  Check out the USask CPE Injection Training Website to register for a comprehensive, competency-based training on vaccine administration.