Resources & Tools

In addition to supplying pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, Blessings International aims to support traveling medical teams by making available additional resources and tools.

Downloadable Forms

Blessings Bundle – Export Package

A resource for teams who wish to send medicines abroad but may not know what to send. This package is a complete order, providing medicines and supplies for the most frequently treated conditions.

 

Blessings Bundle – Medical Treatment Formulary (Recommended to treat 1,000 patients)

This list is a suggested formulary to use as a guide when building your order. Please note that the prices are subject to change depending on current market circumstances.

 

Compounding Kit Worksheets (Also available in Spanish)

(Suggested for use with Compounding Kit [Item code: BICK])

These worksheets include compounding formulas specifically created for eleven of the most-commonly needed medicines we supply, plus one general formulation.

 

Feedback Forms – To be filled out and submitted after every order

For international outreaches | For US-based outreaches | For animal health outreaches

 

Patient Data Sheet

Use with patients to track their history, evaluation, and treatment.

 

Patient Medical Treatment Record

A basic information sheet that triage, medical personnel, and pharmacy staff can use to write and record information about a patient’s condition, diagnoses, and treatment.

Helpful Documentation

 

Countries around the world handle incoming donations of medicines differently. Blessings International wants to help you have everything you need to make importing and customs procedures as simple as possible. Once you check the requirements for bringing medicine into a particular nation, please contact us if you need any of these documents:

PROFORMA DOCUMENT

 

 

Download Example

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

 

 

Download Example

CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY

 

 

Download Example

CHARITY CERTIFICATE

 

 

Download Example

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Short-Term Missions Training

 

Whether you’re leading a mission team for the first time or you’ve never been on a mission trip, the Short-Term Missions Training series is designed to help you and your team be most prepared, effective, and safe on your outreach.

 

In this training series, Troy Sledge, RN, MSN, a board member of Blessings International, shares from his years of experience in missions, giving you practical advice to make your trip–and your return–successful.

 

About Troy

Troy Sledge, RN, MSN, received his undergraduate degree in nursing at the University of Texas at El Paso, in 1978, and his master’s degree in nursing at Oral Roberts University in 1990. A member of the Graduate Honor Society at ORU, he was voted “Outstanding Young Man of America” in 1988. Before his retirement in 2022, he functioned in various nursing-related roles throughout his career: staff nurse, nurse manager, administrative supervisor, director of patient care services, assistant hospital administrator, hospital administrator, and adjunct professor.

 

He has been active in missions since 1984, having served on over 60 mission trips in places like Africa, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, India, Albania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.

 

He and his wife, Debbie, have been married since 1980 and have two sons and four grandchildren.

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Publications and Books

 

Blessings wants to help you and your team be successful on your upcoming mission trips! We have found that a number of books can give you a great deal of information to ensure that you are well prepared.

A Comprehensive Guide To Missions

Karen Bean, RN

B.I. Price:  $37.70

This guide was written by a medical missionary with years of experience in multiple locations around the world. It is designed to be a practical manual  for anyone involved in foreign missions.

To order, please register as a customer, and then you can place an order through our downloadable forms or through myBlessings. Or, if you would like to order the book without making a pharmaceutical order, you can contact our staff directly at info@blessing.org or via phone.

Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine

Eddleston, Davidson, Brent, and Wilkinson: Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780-19 920409-0
Purchase at Amazon

Handbook for Short-Term Medical Missionaries

Steffes, Bruce and Michelle: ABWE Publishing
ISBN 1888-79-6316
Purchase at Amazon

CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel

Brunette et al: Mosby/Elsevier
ISBN 978-0190628611

Purchase at Amazon

F.A.Q.

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