{"id":701,"date":"2017-12-13T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=701"},"modified":"2017-12-01T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:00:32","slug":"pharmacists-care-of-persons-living-with-hiv-more-than-just-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/12\/13\/pharmacists-care-of-persons-living-with-hiv-more-than-just-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists&#8217; care of persons living with HIV &#8211; more than just medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Josh Havens, PharmD, BCPS, Kim Scarsi, PharmD, BCPS, Anthony Podany, PharmD, and Valentina Orduna make up the pharmacy team at the Specialty Care Clinic (SCC).\u00a0 Pharmacy staff are fully integrated within the HIV care team at SCC.\u00a0 We help manage SCC patients for a variety of issues including antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation or switching, management of ART related drug-drug interactions, medication adherence, medication access, Hepatitis C treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP\/nPEP).\u00a0All pharmacy staff are involved with National Institutes of Health and industry supported investigator-initiated research. SCC also supports the education mission of UNMC, as an advanced pharmacy practice experiential site for fourth year pharmacy students.<\/p>\n<p>SCC provides a unique experience for a pharmacist. We autonomously see patients and collaborate with other SCC team members to provide the best comprehensive care for our patients. The amount of trust put into the pharmacy staff by other SCC team members is a rarity and we are truly grateful to be a part of the SCC team.<\/p>\n<p>Providing care for patients living with HIV can be very rewarding yet challenging at times.\u00a0 The smallest change in our patients care can result in drastic improvements in their health and well-being.\u00a0 Seeing the impact of the interdisciplinary care provided at the SCC never ceases to amaze. \u00a0At the end of the day, it is an awesome experience to be an \u00a0important part of our patients\u2019 care.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-829 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/12\/scc-pharmacists-300x232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/12\/scc-pharmacists-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/12\/scc-pharmacists-120x93.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/12\/scc-pharmacists.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Content courtesy Joshua Havens, PharmD (Clinical Pharmacist, Specialty Care Clinic),\u00a0 Kim Scarsi, PharmD MS (Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy), and\u00a0 Valentina Orduna (Pharmacy Support Assistant, Specialty Care Clinic)<\/em><\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/subscribe2\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.108\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Havens, PharmD, BCPS, Kim Scarsi, PharmD, BCPS, Anthony Podany, PharmD, and Valentina Orduna make up the pharmacy team at the Specialty Care Clinic (SCC).\u00a0 Pharmacy staff are fully integrated within the HIV care team at SCC.\u00a0 We help manage SCC patients for a variety of issues including antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation or switching, management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,57],"tags":[63,58,60,59,61],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hiv-aids","category-unmc-scc","tag-aidsawareness","tag-hiv","tag-pharmacy","tag-unmcscc","tag-worldaidsday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}