HIV Testing: Skills Practice Session

HIV Testing: Skills Practice Session
† 6.5 OASAS credits (not approved for initial CPS credentialing); ‡ 6.5 CNE hours

This one-day training will provide participants with an opportunity to practice key skills related to offering HIV testing services.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

Recall how to provide streamlined pre-test information;

Describe how to deliver preliminary positive and confirmed positive HIV test results;

Describe how to link newly diagnosed HIV positive patients to health care and support services;

Provide information to HIV positive patients to promote notification of sexual and needle sharing partners; and

Conduct the NYS domestic violence screening protocol.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of basic HIV/AIDS information and attendance at the AIDS Institute training, “HIV Testing in NYS: 2010 Update” within the previous six months.
Audience: All health or human service providers who offer HIV testing as part of their job responsibilities.
Winter 2011 Dates: March, 27 2012 (9am-5pm) Hawthorne