Nursing abroad - general

Health Professionals Abroad. A Directory of Worldwide Opportunities.
Tim Ryder
Oxford

Published in February 2000 this book is described as being "a comprehensive guide to finding work overseas in a wide range of disciplines throughout
all areas of health care. It covers state and private sectors requiring qualified and experienced staff and provides information on recruitment agencies, work permits, major employers and working conditions."

For more details or to order a copy, click on the book cover.

Practising as a nurse overseas

UKCC Publications - write or fax the UKCC's Distribution Department or email direct to publications@ukcc.org.uk. These can also be found on the UKCC web site at www.ukcc.org.uk under Publications:

Code of Professional Conduct, UKCC 1992

The Scope of Professional Practice, UKCC 1992

Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping, UKCC 1998

Guidelines for the Administration of Medicines, UKCC 2000

Guidelines for Professional Practice, UKCC 1996

Glover D. Accountability. Nursing Times Clinical Monograph No 27, 1999

RCN. The supply and administration of medicines under group protocol arrangements. Guidance for nurses from the Royal College of Nursing. RCN 1998

Health in developing countries

Melrose, D. Bitter pills; medicines and the Third World poor. Oxfam, 1982

Sanders, D. The Struggle for Health - Medicine and the Politics of Underdevelopment. Macmillan Press

Werner, David. Where there is no Doctor. A useful guide for village Health Care Workers. Available from Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC)

Primary health care in developing countries: a guide to resources and information in the UK.

A useful publication listing agencies involved in health care in developing countries, publishers of useful information etc. Available from Healthlink Worldwide (formerly AHRTAG), price £3.50 + p&p

Further useful publications are available from TALC and from the Intermediate Technology (IT) Bookshop, 103-105 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4HH.

Personal health abroad

Department of Health: Health Advice for Travellers

Copies are available from the Post Office, GP surgeries or by phoning the Health Literature Line on 0800 555 777 (free of charge)

Traveller's Health. How to stay healthy abroad.
Dawood, R (ed).
Oxford University Press. 1992
ISBN 0192622471

Your child's health abroad
Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth, Dr Mathew Ellis
Bradt Publications
ISBN 1898323631

Hodson M. World Wise: Your passport to Safer Travel. Produced by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, 14 East Sheen Avenue, London SW14 8AS or available through www.brookes.ac.uk/worldwise

Everything you need to know before you go.
Information and advice for independent travellers.
Mark Ashton, 1998.
Abroadsheet Publications.
ISBN 0 9525128 2 3. £3.99.

Expedition medicine / nursing on expeditions

Dutton, J. A Trip into the Unknown . Nursing Standard, March 24, Vol 7 / No 27 1993

Expedition Medicine
David Warrell and Sarah Anderson (eds)

ISBN 1 86197 040 4. £14.99

The guide to Expedition Medicine is full of practical advice and information on first aid kits, emergency evacuation procedures and health advice for a wide range of environments and activities from the tropics to the polar regions, and from mountaineering to diving and canoeing.

Joining an Expedition
Shane Winser (ed.)
1998. ISBN 0 907649 73 4. £6.50
A directory of organisations offering expeditions
overseas, with advice on fundraising.
Available from: Expedition Advisory Centre

Fundraising to Join an Expedition Offprint from Joining an Expedition. A guide for individuals raising the funds required to join an expedition. Catherine Lucas, 1992. £2.50. Available from the Expedition Advisory Centre Publications page.

Tropical Medicine

Bell, Dion R. Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine. Blackwell Scientific Publications

James E Chin.
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.17th ed.
American Public Health Association, Jan 2000

ISBN 087553242X

(formerly edited by A. Benenson)