Tale of Two Doctors and Disseminated TB:
When you really need a Nurse Case Manager!

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 12. (Note: Registration will be on a first come, first served basis until the webinar capacity is reached.)

Cost: There is no fee for this training.

Credit: This training is approved for up to 1.00 nursing continuing education hour.

Target Audience: This training is intended for tuberculosis nurses, nurse case managers, and public health nurses who manage tuberculosis patients. This training opportunity is available to a national audience.

Description: This case presentation will discuss the many complicated factors a Nurse Case Manager navigated to ensure quality treatment and care of a patient with disseminated tuberculosis. This webinar is part of the collaborative Nurse Education Series. The 4 Tuberculosis Centers of Excellence for Training, Education, and Medical Consultation (TB COEs) have partnered with NTNC to offer a tuberculosis nurse case conference series.

Objectives:

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• describe several case management challenges encountered while coordinating treatment and care for a patient with disseminated tuberculosis
• state three nursing case management interventions applied to ensure the patient's medical and psycho/social needs were addressed

Presenter:

  Alba Suárez, RN, BSN
  Public Health Nurse
  Tuberculosis and Refugee Health
  Snohomish Health District
  Everett, WA

Co-Facilitators:

  Ann Raftery, RN, PHN, MS

  Associate Medical Director

  Curry International Tuberculosis Center

  University of California, San Francisco

  Oakland, CA

  Lana Kay Tyer, RN, MSN

  Tuberculosis Nurse Consultant

  Division of Disease Control & Health Statistics

  Washington State Department of Health

  Olympia, WA

Please look for announcements from the TB COEs and NTNC for upcoming sessions in the Nurse Education Series. Here are some of the upcoming sessions:

2018

• October 17 (1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Time) Managing Adverse Event from TB Medications, Part 2 with Dr. Fraimow. Webinar also includes reactions to 3HP. Hosted by NTNC.
• November 9 (12:00-1:30 pm Eastern Time): The Gift that Keeps on Giving-Compounding Complexities with Denise Dodge, RN - TB Nurse Consultant, Division of TB and Newcomer Health, Virginia. Hosted by: Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers (GTBI).

2019

• January NTNC
• February case conference by Southeastern National TB Center (SNTC)
• March NTNC
• April 23-26, 2019 National TB Conference. Hosted by National TB Controllers Association and Association of Public Health Laboratories.
• May case conference by Heartland National TB Center (HNTC)
• June NTNC

The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is approved as a provider of continuing education by the California State Board of Registered Nurses, Provider Number CEP 12308. This training is approved for up to 1.00 continuing education hours. Board requirements prevent us from offering CE credit to people who arrive more than 15 minutes after the start of the training, or leave the training early. Therefore, partial credit will not be awarded.