CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Reconsidering Your Approach: Strategies to Support PrEP Persistence and Reengagement

Episode Summary

Are you inadvertently compromising your patients’ persistence on PrEP? Hear from Dr LaRon E. Nelson in this case-based discussion on the role that you, as the healthcare professional, may be playing and strategies you can implement to modify your approach to encourage persistence.

Episode Notes

In this episode, LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN, discusses the role that healthcare professionals (HCPs) may be playing in their patients’ pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) persistence and strategies to modify their approach to encourage persistence, from Clinical Care Options (CCO), including:

• Racial disparities in the PrEP care continuum
• Consideration that PrEP persistence may be less about relationship to the drug than the environment
• Examples of HCP implicit bias regarding PrEP responsibility based on racism and sexual prejudice
• Impact of HCP implicit bias on PrEP persistence
• Impact of racism on clinical cognition
• The demonstrated effects of stereotype threat and the potential healthcare implications
• Ways to improve clinical conversations about PrEP
• Providing person-centered care to encourage PrEP persistence using the Client‑Centered Care Coordination (C4™) Model

Faculty

LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN
Independence Foundation Professor
School of Nursing
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

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