The Florence Nightingale Foundation
Travel Scholarships – Sample Itinerary
Joe Bloggs Outline Tour to Greensville and Bluetown, Ruritania
An international comparison of the core competency requirements of mental health
professionals who work with severely mentally ill people
Date
15.5.14 to
17.5.14
Visit
Greensville
Purpose/Objectives
Orientation to Greensville and to
establish an initial understanding of
profile and access routes to mental
health services to be visited in
Greensville.
Establish contact with host, Mrs Mary
Black, Consultant Nurse, Whiteside
Mental Health Service
20.6.14 to
3.7.14
Initial visits to Whiteside
Mental Health Service
To identify the current service
configuration of Whiteside Mental
Health Service in relation to the
provision of community treatment
programmes, in-patient acute,
rehabilitation and specialist services
for users with serious mental illness
Estimated
Cost (£)
£200 Flights
Hotels
3 nights stay
£300
Food for 3
days £90
£100 Flights
Hotels
14 nights
stay
£1400
Food for 14
days £400
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Date
5.7.14 to
7.7.14
10.7.14 to
18.7.14
Visit
Purpose/Objectives
Extended 1 or 2 day visits
to community oriented
generic and specialist
services for users,
including Whiteside area
Community Mental Health
Teams, Assertive
Community Treatment,
mobile intensive
treatment and
rehabilitative services
To actively observe and engage
professionals working in community
oriented services in discussion about
the nature of their professional
education to identify the requisite skills
taught to enable practitioners to
undertake their community practice
Hotel
Extended visit to the
University of South West
Greensville
To meet, discuss and observe the way
in which educationalists involved in
delivering mental health professional
programme, equip pre-registration and
qualified staff with the requisite skills to
work with users who have serious
mental illnesses. Particular reference
to skills for assertive outreach, crisis
intervention and active therapeutic
engagement will be examined during
the course of the visit
Hotel 9 nts
18.7.14
Transfer to Bluetown
21.7.14 to
23.7.14
Short visits to Royal
Bluetown & South
Orangecreek District
Mental Health Services
and Redhill Hospital
Visit to University of
Indigo
Estimated
Cost (£)
2 nts £200
Food £50
£600
Food for 9
days £150
Flight £100
To assess the skills requirements of
mental health professionals who work
within mobile community treatment
teams serving the Bluetown area
To visit Professor Sam Brown to look
at his current professional
development programmes available to
mental health professionals who work
in the province of Indigo.
Flight £75
Hotel 3 nts
£300
Food for 3
days £100
Total:
£4,065
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