Nursing
ISTM Nurse Professional Group (NPG) is Forming!
- Chair: Jane Chiodini, United Kingdom
- Associate Chairs: Sandra Grieve, United Kingdom
Gail Rosselot, United States of America
Thank you for visiting our page on the new ISTM Website. We are thrilled with this new vehicle to keep you apprised of our goals, objectives and activities, and to reach out for new members. We plan to update this webpage regularly and hope you check back often.
If you are a Nurse Professional, consider joining us as we create the new ISTM Nurse Professional Group (NPG).
Nursing in Travel Medicine Around the World
We are gathering reports from nurse professionals from many countries around the world. We will be able to identify similarities and differences in our work - and share our challenges and triumphs.
It is an exciting time to participate, for recent changes in ISTM have provided the former ISTM Practice and Nursing Issues Committee the opportunity to create a professional group. As a professional group we will have more autonomy, the ability to identify our own goals and objectives, and a greater potential to influence ISTM activities. To be confirmed as a professional group we need at least 50 members and create a charter or bylaws and rules regarding the election of leaders. We anticipate completing these activities by May 2011.
We can use your help! In addition to forming NPG, we will remain involved in other ISTM activities and move forward with a number of new initiatives including establishing a newsletter, enhancing our presence on the website and developing working task forces.
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Projects in progress include:
Nursing in Travel Medicine Around the World
We are gathering reports from nurse professionals from many countries around the world. We will be able to identify similarities and differences in our work - and share our challenges and triumphs.
This simple document introduces you to the background of the nurses serving on your behalf in in the Nurse Professional Group (NPG) of the ISTM and also indicates where in the world we need further new recruits.
Useful for all practicing travel medicine and especially those new to the discipline. This guide will offer general information and tips regarding the practice. This is a living document so check it out regularly as it will be updated on a necessary basis to reflect current practice.
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News Items
Welcome Gathering in Budapest
The former Practice and Nursing Issues Committee organized a "welcome gathering" at the beginning of the May, 2009 Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine in Budapest. Click here to read the report of this event which was a great success. The gathering was particularly useful for those who attended to meet other nurses, network, and make new friendships, some of which developed as the conference progressed.
Competences for Nurses working in Travel Health Medicine
Presented at CISTM10 in Vancouver in May of 2007, nurses in the United Kingdom published Competencies: An integrated career and competency framework for nurses in travel health medicine. Click here to download a copy.
NPG Charter
The Charter for the Nurse Professional Group is work in progress but here are our initial aims
The Nurse Professional Group intends to:
- Be actively accessible to nurse members of the ISTM, supporting them in nurse related issues in travel medicine
- Demonstrate leadership on nursing related issues to all other ISTM committees and groups
- Identify through example, the value of nurses in travel medicine, whilst interacting with all other healthcare professionals working in this field of practice
- Ensure nurses are fully integrated into the activities of the ISTM, for example, conferences, educational materials, research
- Promote nurse membership of the ISTM and pro actively involve nurses working in travel medicine on a global scale, collaborating with other international nursing groups when appropriate
Comments, ideas and suggestions regarding the Nurse Professional Group or any related nursing issues may be directed to Jane Chiodini, United Kingdom, Chair, and Associate Chairs Sandra Grieve, United Kingdom and Gail Rosselot, United States of America. We look forward to hearing from you!
ISTM Members: Click here to go to manage my membership and join this group.