Nursing

The Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center offers a variety of nursing training programs. We provide education and training for all levels of nursing staff.

Training for Nurses Onsite at Community Clinics and Correctional Facilities

We offer educational programs for nursing and other clinic staff onsite at community clinics or at correctional facilities. Programs are designed based on the clinic needs and are generally 2- 4 hours in length. Program format varies from lecture to interactive workshops with standardized patients. Examples of topics include:

• HIV/AIDS 101
• HIV Risk Assessment and Counseling
• HIV Rapid Testing
• Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
• HIV and Transgender Patients
• Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity

Standardized Patient Workshops

As part of our educational program for nurses, we also offer interactive skill development workshops using standardized patients. Standardized patients are actors who are carefully trained to portray real patient cases. The standardized patient workshops are specifically designed to offer nurses and other healthcare professionals experience and skill building in selected areas.

Participants have an opportunity to practice patient interviewing and counseling and to build skills in such areas as HIV risk assessment, prevention counseling, HIV test counseling, and treatment adherence.

Three-day Workshop Training Program

We offer Nursing and HIV Care Workshops for registered nurses several times each calendar year. This program offers registered nurses an opportunity to increase knowledge and skills in medical and psychosocial complications associated with HIV disease. Also emphasized are culture, attitudes and values, as well as skills and barriers related to HIV risk reduction counseling

For More Information:

Alyson Shanahan
Nursing Workshop
Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
Keck School of Medicine

Telephone: (626) 457-4226
Email: ashanaha@usc.edu

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