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Thank you for visiting the 2025 TB Nursing Symposium event page. This event took place in Rochester, Minnesota on May 6-7, 2025. Please find details below about the symposium along with presentation slides and links to materials.
Symposium Description
This comprehensive two-day event was dedicated to advancing the knowledge and skills of nurses in the field of tuberculosis care. This symposium covered essential topics including TB fundamentals, nurse case management, and contact investigation, providing a robust foundation for effective TB control and patient care.
Target Audience
This course is intended for Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Public Health Nurses, and healthcare professionals involved in TB care.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the basic principles and epidemiology of tuberculosis.
- Identify the key responsibilities of public health nurses in TB control and prevention.
- Recognize strategies for managing occupational TB exposures in healthcare settings.
- Describe the nurse case management process for TB patients.
- Examine medications, treatment regimens, and potential side effects for latent TB infection and TB disease.
- Recognize co-morbidities that impact tuberculosis management and patient outcomes.
- Examine proper techniques and best practices for sputum collection in TB diagnosis.
- Identify methods of improving HIV testing among TB patients.
- Explore strategies for providing effective TB care to refugee families.
- Analyze a pediatric TB case study to enhance clinical decision-making skills.
- Identify the fundamental principles of TB contact investigations.
- Identify strategies for managing limited resources during contact investigations.
Please email TBcenter@mayo.edu for additional questions.
May 6, 2025
- Fundamentals of Tuberculosis
- The Role of the Public Health Nurse
- From Exposure to Action: Nurse Management of Occupational TB Exposures
- TB Free California: A Statewide Initiative to Prevent and Eliminate TB
- Nursing Case Management Process Overview
- Navigating TB Treatment: Medications, Regimens, and Side Effects
- TB and Comorbidities: Pregnancy, Diabetes, HIV
May 7, 2025
- Digging Deeper in TB Nurse Case Management
- Sputum Collection
- Improving HIV Testing for People with TB Disease
- Building Bridges: Effective Tuberculosis Care for Refugee Families
- Presentation: TB Survivor Story and Discussion
- Unique Considerations in Pediatric Tuberculosis
- Fundamentals of TB Contact Investigations
- Rethinking TB Contact Investigations
- Presentation: MCCT Resource Overview