Expanding The Role of Nurse Practitioners in BC

In August of last year, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) launched an educational initiative to expand the role of nurse practitioners in BC as antiretroviral prescribers for HIV prevention and treatment. The BC-CfE and the College of Registered Nurses of BC have been working together to expand the role of nurse practitioners to close the gaps in accessing HIV prevention and treatment.

The initiative consists of two tiers – the first focuses on training nurse practitioners so that they will have the competencies to prescribe PEP and PrEP. The second, coming late Spring 2019, focuses on the prescribing of antiretrovirals.