This assignment is for a travel advice for a patient. This patient has type two diabetes and will be traveling to Brazil (you can pick the city in Brazil). Attached is the directions on how to do this assignment. Needs a minimum of six references from a scholarly periodical (journal) literature which are not already included in the directions. References can only be less then 5 years old. Needs to be in APA format as well. No more then five pages. Grading table is attached as well so please keep that in mind. Thanks
Requirements: 5 pages
Travel Advice Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to provide the students with an opportunity to develop skill in accessing travel advice information and providing information to a client in a concise, accurate and complete manner.
Directions
- Read the following:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014) CDC Health Information for International Travel. New York: Oxford University Press; 2014. Retrieved from: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2014/table-of-contents (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 7 & 8)
- Search the scholarly periodical (journal) literature and access electronic travel resources such as the following (or other web-based resources or references) for content relevant to your patient’s specific needs and itinerary:
International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)
International Travel and Health (World Health Organization)
National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)
https://travelhealthpro.org.uk
- Develop a specific plan of travel advice for a patient who plans to travel to a part of the world where personal safety, infectious disease exposure, sanitation and water quality are uncertain. The patient will be traveling to a country outside North America and Western Europe, and will be visiting areas outside of tourist centers. The student should select a country whose name begins with the initial letter of his or her first or last name. The traveler described should have at least one special need, chronic disease diagnosis or disability that will impact health and safety practices while traveling.
- Write a narrative for the use of the traveler himself or herself. Provide specific information for a specific traveler (specify the traveler’s age and health issues). The traveler should have at least one significant special need or condition that will impact his or her travel health or safety needs (i. e. a specific chronic disease requiring medication; infants, children, pregnant women, elders; immune-compromised patients; patients with disabilities, etc.).Your plan should include all needed medications and immunizations, and give dosages and instructions for their use. This should include sections dealing with each of the following topic areas:
- a) prescription AND over-the-counter medications to be used or brought, dosages and instructions for use;
- b) first aid items to be brought;
- c) special precautions indicated by the sociopolitical environment of the area to be visited;
- d) pre-travel immunization suggested for this specific traveler;
- e) health-maintenance practices for this specific traveler while traveling;
- f) preventative measures for food and water-borne illness;
- g) instructions for dealing with traveler’s diarrhea and any other illness that is specific to the area visited;
- h) post-travel care and
- i) special considerations for the specific travelers’ special needs.
- The narrative should be no more than five pages (not including references) and be submitted in APA format. A minimum of six references from the scholarly periodical (journal) literature relevant to the specific traveler’s needs or destination should be included. These must not duplicate the references provided in these instructions. Additional references as appropriate to the topic may also be included.
Grading
- The information in the plan is accurate and current 3 points
- The information in the plan is complete and detailed,
including specific instructions about health maintenance
practices and the use of medications or first aid items 4 points
- The plan is “client focused” and uses appropriate
language for patient education materials 2 points
- All aspects of the information called for in the directions
are included 9 points
- References are appropriate to the instructions and
reference list is in correct APA format
2 points
Answer preview
The traveler should also ensure that she carries with her a first aid kit that will be easily accessible to her and her family at all times of the trip. This first aid kit should be used in any case of an emergency in regards to her condition. The items present in the kit should be replenished so as to ascertain that the patient can gain access to them when she needs them. These items include; an extra glucose meter with extra strips used for testing the patient’s blood sugar levels, fast-acting glucose such as Lucozade or an energy drink, a glucagon kit needed when the blood sugars are dangerously low, an emergency contacts list, a list of current prescriptions, medical identification, spare insulin, extra injection needles, extra batteries required for the glucose meter and ketone strips. The patient should ensure that she has all these items in close proximity to her person in case of any emergency situation.
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