Travel Health Nurses

Diane began her career in nursing with an integrated RGN: Health Visitor and District Nursing training and led her into working in the community, returning to hospital and clinical teaching, moving into nurse education both in adult general and specialist paediatrics at Great Ormond Street.

Diane completed a course in Adult Psychodynamic Counselling and was involved in counselling with a local affiliate of WPF and later took on a supervisory role in addition to teaching at Birkbeck and setting up a counselling service in a GP practice. Diane has been involved with a Christian Charity on short term visits in Northern Uganda over the past few years and is involved with a Doctor in Gulu in helping with the implementation of a training programme for Village Health Care workers.

She is on the RCN Travel Health Forum committee which promotes the education and training of nurses in the field of Travel medicine. She is also a Member of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glasgow).

This involved setting up and running a travel clinic in London and delivering advice on staying healthy overseas.

During her time with the foreign office Fiona spent time overseas relieving Nurses based at some locations with limited/poor medical facilities. She gained an Occupational Health Diploma in 1992. Since having children Fiona had been working in General practice which incorporated a significant amount of travel health and now her children are older she is pleased to be working once again solely within the field of travel health. 

Lynda graduated from the University of Ulster in 2002 with her BSc (Hons) Nursing where she had an elective in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Mountains. Immediately after training she set off to Africa to nurse in Malawi. On return she worked for 3 years in Belfast as a respiratory nurse and with her holidays travelled and nursed abroad. 

After returning from an Indonesian Tsunami relief team she decided to pursue a Diploma in Tropical Nursing at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She enjoys travelling the lesser travelled roads from the jungles of Loas, to Mongolia’s higher peaks and to Central Asia’s plains giving her an insight into many different cultures and lifestyles. Her desire is to live and work in a less developed country.
 

Hopped over to England via Nepal and Thailand in 2006 where I studied the Diploma in Tropical Nursing while continuing Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) nursing. I came across InterHealth while studying the DTN by hearing lectures on Public health issues by Dr. Lankester, who mentioned InterHealth as one of his other multiple, complimentary passions. So now I split my time between nursing in the Travel Clinic at InterHealth, and working night shift on the Peadiatric Intensive Care unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Aspirations of being involved in some overseas, majority world projects involving child health – waiting for the right opportunity and the right timing to compliment my commitments at InterHealth, the PICU and my home church.

A desire to serve others led me to work as a midwife in the Mission hospital in Bannu, NWFP Pakistan. In search of inspiration I contacted Interhealth when working as a Practice Nurse in the UK to learn more about Travel Health, as I had been helped so much as a client when overseas with CMS.

I now help to cover shifts at Interhealth when the permanent nurses are away. When not working at Interhealth I'm with my young family and pursuing a passion for Fair Trade as a Traidcraft voluntary rep.