Fundamentals of HIV Infection, Bluefield State College SON, Bluefield, WV
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219 Rock St., Bluefield WV 24701
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Description
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center, West Virginia Regional Partner's mission is to increase providers' capacity to provide high quality HIV/AIDS care within our health care systems. Changes occur rapidly in the HIV/AIDS arena and all interested health care professionals should seek yearly updates to stay current.
Accreditation:
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center West Virginia Regional Partner is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the State of West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses.
Nursing Contact Hours Accreditation Statement:
This continuing education activity has been provided by the WV Regional Partner of the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center for 7.5 contact hours. The WV Regional Partner is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the State of WV Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses. WVBRN provider number WV2000-0303RN.21. This activity is also approved for Licensed Practical Nurses for 7.5 contact hours.
Disclosure:
The speakers disclose no conflict of interest relative to this educational activity.
Targeted Populations
A variety of the listed populations will be discussed at this event.
- Rural populations
Materials
Topics
A variety of the listed topics will be discussed at this event.
- Behavioral Prevention
- Harm Reduction/Safe Injection
- HIV Transmission Risk Assessment
- Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP, occupational and non-occupational)
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Prevention of perinatal or mother-to-child transmission
- Other biomedical prevention
- Acute HIV
- Basic science
- Clinical manifestations of HIV disease
- HIV diagnosis (i.e. HIV testing)
- HIV Epidemiology
- HIV monitoring and lab tests (i.e. CD4 ad viral load)
- Linkage to Care
- Substance use disorders
- Confidentiality/HIPAA