Two topics on Sexual Health: Taking a Sexual History and Expedited Partner Therapy | November 19, 2024
Date of Presentation: November 19, 2024
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Grand Rounds
Keywords: #expedited partner therapy #pet #sexual health #sexual history #sti
We invite you to join Indian Country ECHO for a Grand Rounds session focused on Taking a Sexual History and Expedited Partner Therapy. In this series of presentations, Kelly Pretty Weasel, RN, Director of Public Health Nursing Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospitals, discusses scripts that make it easier to talk about sexual health and history with patients, common topics that come up with both ‘routine’ and ‘complex’ patients, and how to document the encounter in RPMS. Then, Andrew Yu, MS, RN, ACRN, National HIV/HCV/STI Clinical Coordinator at Indian Health Service Headquarters, provides an overview of the evidence supporting EPT for chlamydia and gonorrhea, examples of EPT policy and delivery, and the importance of providing Penicillin G Benzathine injections for syphilis to partners/contacts. At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Conduct a sexual history with patients
- Implement Expedited Partner Therapy
- Update an Expedited Partner Therapy policy
Recording:
Presented by:
Andrew Yu
BSN, RN, ACRN
Andrew Yu, BSN, RN, ACRN, is the National HIV/HCV/STI Clinical Coordinator for the Indian Health Service Division of Clinical and Community Services. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Georgetown University and his Master of Science in Community and Public Health Nursing from Hunter College – CUNY. He is also certified as an AIDS care registered nurse and an active member of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
Kelly Pretty Weasel
RN
Kelly Pretty Weasel, RN, serves as the Director of Public Health Nursing at the Indian Health Service Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospitals
Resources Provided:
- Expedited Partner Therapy (Presentation Slides)
- Taking A Sexual History (Presentation Slides)
- Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment Policy - Standing Order
- Standing Rock Service Unit Expedited Partner Therapy
- Chinle STI Testing and Treatment Policy
- Standing Order Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment and Testing
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Case Record
Date added: October 18, 2024