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First Fridays: 101 Series

NCHTEC’s First Friday series is intended to provide foundational HIV knowledge for nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals new to Ryan White clinics, and to ensure that more experienced professionals stay up-to-date on changes in best practices and approaches to HIV service delivery.  You can view the session details below and click on the links to register. Registration will provide you with an iCal/Outlook calendar file for the entire series. All sessions are from 9am-10am EST and will be archived for later viewing.

*and a couple of 2nd Fridays 😊

Nov 14*  HIV 101 (Click to view the archive)
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn the basics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including its epidemiology, natural history, and general principles of engagement in care and adherence to treatment.
Objectives:
  • Define key terms: HIV, CD4 cell, AIDS, viral load, ARV, adherence, and undetectability
  • Describe who is living with HIV in the US and who is at risk for acquiring HIV
  • Outline how HIV infects someone and what happens in the body after infection
  • Describe the process of getting tested and what happens when someone enters HIV care
  • Explain U=U and what it means for people with HIV
Dec 5  HIV 201 (Click to view the archive)
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn more advanced details about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and its management, with a focus on the most common opportunistic conditions that develop in advanced HIV disease.
Objectives:
  • Name and describe 3 opportunistic infections affecting people with advanced HIV.
  • Explain how antiretroviral medications work to halt HIV replication in cells of the body.
  • List the steps of the HIV care continuum.
  • Define “U=U” and “status neutral.”
Jan 9*  FAQs in HIV Care (Click to view the archive)
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will discuss commonly encountered questions that people with HIV have for their clinical care providers and outline approaches to addressing those questions using patient-specific data and best practices in HIV care.
Objectives:
  • Improve knowledge to address common questions patients have about HIV medications, adherence, and complications
  • Recognize some “red flag” issues that should prompt you to discuss the patient’s question with a pharmacist or the patient’s provider
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn how to optimize care for people living with HIV by incorporating evidence and best practices from internal medicine, geriatric medicine, preventive medicine, and public health.
Objectives:
  • Identify where to find key resources guiding delivery of primary care for people with HIV.
  • Name at least 2 vaccines whose eligibility requirements differ for people with HIV.
  • Outline how bone density screening guidelines differ for people with HIV.
  • Explain the results of the REPRIEVE study and the implications this has for HIV care.
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will review the basics of the sexually transmitted infections that are most commonly encountered in HIV clinical settings.
Objectives:
  • Describe STI trends in the United States.
  • Explain the signs and symptoms of major STIs in terms that clients can understand.
  • Explain the clinical and laboratory diagnosis of syphilis and a rationale for annual testing.
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn about the evidence supporting doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis (“doxyPEP”) to reduce the incidence of chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea.
Objectives:
  • Describe the demographics of persons with bacterial STIs (bSTIs) in the United States.
  • Outline the evidence behind the use of doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against bSTIs.
  • Formulate an approach to discussing doxyPEP with patients who could benefit.
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn more about hepatitis B virus (HBV), an important cause of chronic liver disease and liver cancer among people with HIV.
Objectives:
  • List at least 3 risk factors for HBV infection.
  • Explain how to interpret lab testing for people with acute, chronic, and latent HBV infection.
  • Name some practical steps people with HBV can take to protect their liver health.
In this session geared towards clinic-based nurses, care partners, and non-prescribing professionals, participants will learn about some of the new HIV medications and treatment options that are currently in development by scientists and pharmaceutical companies around the world.
Objectives:
  • Identify 3 desirable characteristics for antiretroviral medication options in development.
  • Outline some of the pros and cons for long-acting, injectable or infusible options for HIV treatment.
  • Describe the potential role for once-yearly injectable lenacapavir for HIV elimination.