Development of a 10-Item Tool to Identify Advanced Practice Nurse Readiness to Prescribe Pre-exposure Prophylaxis. (May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carter, Gregory A.; Jayawardene, Wasantha; Agley, Jon; Garcia, Justin R.; Miller, Wendy R.; Sherwood-Laughlin, Catherine; Meyerson, Beth
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Volume 30:Number 3(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-05
• Subjects: advanced practice nurses -- HIV prevention -- pre-exposure prophylaxis; AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing -- Periodicals; AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Periodicals; AIDS (Disease) -- Periodicals; HIV infections -- Nursing -- Periodicals; HIV infections -- Treatment -- Periodicals; HIV infections -- Periodicals; 616.97920231
• DOI: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000038
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1055-3290

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a biomedical tool to prevent the acquisition of HIV, reduces the risk of HIV in high-risk individuals by more than 90%. An online questionnaire was fielded from March 2017 to May 2017 to a random sample of licensed advanced practice nurses (APNs) from the U.S. state of Indiana. Discriminant function analysis was performed to reveal willingness to prescribe PrEP. Two discriminant functions were identified: Sexual Risk Assessment ( r = .686), PrEP Barriers ( r = .587), Evidence-Based Practice Implementation ( r = .545), Community Awareness ( r = .446), Perceived Risk ( r = .356), and Organizational Climate ( r = .346) were loaded on the first function, whereas PrEP Skills ( r = .837) was loaded on the second function. The results suggest APN's willingness to learn and knowledge about PrEP-influenced implementation. Findings demonstrated that readiness to prescribe PrEP by APNs in Indiana could be predicted with a high level of certainty using identified variables.