Amber Webb, MSN-HI, RN, CRNI
Nurse Manager, Home Infusion Pharmacy
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
Describe your session in a tweet.
The federal plan Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. has identified pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a key strategy for reducing new HIV infections in the United States by 90 percent by 2030. Tune in to our session to learn how the OHSU Tele-PrEP clinic and the OHSU Home Infusion Pharmacy have partnered to build a real-world program to expand access to long acting cabotegravir for PrEP. We'll demonstrate how providers, pharmacists, nurses, technicians, and other team members have come together in order to break down barriers in terms of complex social dynamics, mental health components, and other logistical barriers these patients face in order to establish and maintain a sustainable option for their healthcare needs.
What is the most important thing you want attendees to take away from your session?
The concept that home infusion is the changing face of healthcare. The ability to expand access to care by way of home infusion and community-based healthcare meets the fundamental purpose of why all of us got into healthcare- to meet our patients WHERE THEY ARE! We have the unique ability to see what patients are truly dealing with, what tools they really have to be successful, or what tools or services they may be lacking that we can help with. It creates a level of intimacy and trust between the patient and clinician that isn't easily achieved in a sterile, clinical environment. It's truly special.
Excluding your session, what other topics are you passionate about in relation to the home and alternate site industry?
Safety for clinicians in home infusion. The need to be able to provide a true safe and secure work environment and increase the understanding that patients and providers have a role and responsibility to play in this as well. That our workforce also deserve to be looked out and be protected in their workday.
What are you passionate about outside the home and alternate site infusion industry?
Extreme sports (motorcycles, dirt bikes, sky diving, scuba diving), taking pictures of nature and exploring new places with my kids.
What is your superpower?
The ability to find a common bond between people I interact with. I would get dealt the 'difficult' patients typically, because I have the ability to be disarming and open. The key to developing a trusting relationship when providing care to people is the ability to find common ground, and build the healthcare relationship on that.
What additional superpower would you like to have and why?
I would love to FLY. I think this is why I gravitate toward sports that include high speeds. It's the closest thing to flying. Oddly enough, even being underwater feels like flying.
