Tropical Nursing London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Overview

What you will learn

The learning objectives of the Tropical Nursing course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are:

• Demonstrate capability to plan, implement and evaluate primary care interventions in tropical and resource poor contexts.

• Development of a nuanced understanding of the issues involved in caring for people of differing cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds

• Application and understanding of laboratory methods available at local and district level clinics in resource poor countries, for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and other medical conditions, and for managing patient care based on analysis of the laboratory results

• Develop effective cross cultural communication skills in challenging situations and around sensitive topics such as mother and child health issues.

• Management of major tropical diseases and other complex nursing care for example diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks in a resource poor setting

• Develop increased resilience and the ability to manage and improvise provision of care in resource poor or complex emergency settings

• Develop skills and approach to lifelong learning and continuing professional development that is grounded in current research.