Stigma, Discrimination, and Bias Toward Patients with HIV

Contact Hour(s): 

2 Contact Hours

Author:

Heather Rhodes, APRN-BC

This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Athletic Trainer (AT/AL), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), Midwife (MW), Nursing Student, Occupational Therapist (OT), Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA), Physical Therapist (PT), Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Nurse Practitioner

Accreditations: 

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers (BOC)

State Approvals:

Alabama, Provider #ABNP1485; California BRN Provider #CEP # 13509; Florida Physical Therapy Association Approval: CE26-1293970; Kentucky Board of Nursing Provider #7-0085; Florida Board of Nursing Provider 50-353; Nevada Board of Physical Therapy; New York State Education Department’s State Board for Physical Therapy

Course Description:

This course discusses how stigma, discrimination, and bias have drastic impacts on people living with HIV/AIDs. There are no clear guidelines on how to create and maintain a stigma and discrimination-free milieu. This course is designed to bring awareness to this. Stigma, discrimination, and bias toward patients with HIV persist globally, leading to social exclusion, inadequate healthcare, and mental health challenges. Addressing these issues requires education, policy changes, and societal awareness.

Outcomes:

≥ 92% of participants will know how to identify stigma, discrimination, and bias, as well as how to prevent the impact these have on patients who have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Objectives:

After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

1. Explain the meaning of stigma, discrimination, and bias.
2. Identify three risk factors for developing human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS).
3. Determine three ways stigma, discrimination, and bias negatively impact people with HIV/AIDS.
4. Recognize four different forms of stigma, discrimination, and bias.
5. Outline two strategies to combat stigma, discrimination, and bias.
6. Compare two ways to recognize implicit bias.
7. Identify one strategy a healthcare provider can implement to prevent implicit bias in an organization or institution.

Disclosures:

CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.