3. Malaria Matters

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Malaria Matters is a comprehensive course for healthcare practitioners.  The course material takes the learner through the UKHSA publication 'Guidelines for malaria Prevention in travellers from the UK' in an interactive format.  You will be able to watch videos including one of a consultation, learn important information through a variety of learning methods, involving some reading, engaging with case studies, exploring and appreciating the value of many useful resources and tools, and overall gain a far more in depth understanding of malaria prevention advice.  The course intends to help you understand why is it so important to have such knowledge, thereby improving patient care.  On initial testing of the course it was found to take students on average 6 hours to study. 

The course comprises an introduction, 5 learning modules and a final assessment as follows:

• Introduction and navigation instructions
• Module 1: The global impact of malaria
• Module 2: Malaria and Plasmodium
• Module 3: the ABCD of malaria prevention
• Module 4: Malaria chemoprophylaxis
• Module 5: Pre travel special conditions
• Final assessment 

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This course is recommended particularly for all nurses and pharmacists undertaking travel health, as malaria prevention advice should form part of the travel consultation if their travellers are visiting malarious areas.  
• Over 50% of the course fee will be donated to the charity 'Africans Against Malaria' which is currently being developed by the African Diaspora Malaria Initiative, which is a partnership led by the African diaspora.  More detail is included about this in Module 1.  

LENGTH OF TIME ALLOWED TO ACCESS THE COURSE

You will have FOUR weeks to complete the course and explore all the resources if you wish to do so.  If you complete the training in less than the four weeks, you will continue to have access to it until the expiry date.  Many downloadable resources are provided within the training for use in the future, in addition to multiple resources on Jane Chiodini’s website.

Therefore, please purchase the course when you know you are ready to start the training.  

BOOKING DETAILS ON BEHALF OF A LEARNER

If you are a manager booking this course on behalf of one of your registered healthcare practitioner employees, you should now be able to purchase the course on behalf of someone else by adding it to the shopping basket.  At this stage, you will see a message that says 'If you are purchasing for someone else or require bulk purchasing click here' which leads you to instructions to have the option to choose how many places you want and include users’ names.  Upon payment, you will receive an e mail with a link and login codes for each place on the course, to share with learners.  If you have any problems, please contact me at jane@janechiodini.co.uk 

Details about the author and course creator - Jane Chiodini MBE

Jane was the first nurse in England to obtain a the Master’s degree in travel medicine.  Her research dissertation in 1998 was on malaria prevention advice in a primary care setting and she remains passionate about this specialist area of care.   She is a leading figure in the UK in travel health practice, was Chair of the RCN Travel Health Forum 2000 - 2006 and lead author on the RCN guidance: Travel health nursing, career and competence development.  Jane was Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine from October 2018 – October 2021.  Until the COVID-19 pandemic, Jane was seeing travellers in a primary care setting where she has worked since 1990 and has always supported general practice nurses, and more recently, pharmacists. Jane started training healthcare professionals over 25 years ago and enjoys teaching and developing tools for healthcare professionals to use in a travel consultation.  Her website has a wealth of resources to support all practitioners working in this field of practice.   In the 2022 New Year Honours, Jane was awarded an MBE for services to training and development in travel medicine.  And in 2024 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.  This was a most unusual privilege for a nurse in a medical Royal College, about which she wrote a blog in December 2024.  

For further details regarding Jane’s background see http://www.janechiodini.co.uk/about/

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