Stop HIV: Meet the Patient
Earn 1 CME in this in this conclusion to our 3-Part series. Our speakers will review lessons from our previous sessions and then take you through a live demonstration of engaging patients in a conversation around STI testing and treatment.
This session tackles the latest updates and biggest questions around HIV testing options and procedures for both negative and positive tests.
Topics included in this presentation:
-Initiating conversations around sexual health
-HIV testing options
-Testing negative/positive
-Assessing risk for HIV
-Prevention strategies, including PrEP
-PrEP baseline testing, administration, and follow-up
-Patient education
-Importance of rapid initiation of treatment
-Lab tests (eg, CD4, viral load, resistance, HLA-B*5701, kidney function, co-infections)
-Regimens (rapid start, single-tablet)
-Patient education (U=U)
To Access Credit: https://dkbmed.com/programs/149/overview
All conflict of interest has been mitigated prior to this activity.
Melinda Pipik, MS, FNP-BC is a family nurse practitioner currently practicing in retail health with CVS MinuteClinic in Chesterton, IN. Melinda has been in health care for over 20 years; as a bedside nurse, Melinda specialized in pediatrics and emergency care, and worked for 6+ years in the emergency department in Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago).
