To encourage a positive outlook.

To inspire the person to keep going.

To ensure the person feels ongoing support through their treatment.

To check in with past questions, concerns, and fears.

To improve the treatment plan to match the changing needs of the person.

To change the plan if antibiotic treatment changes are made (rare for Latent TB).

To identify if the person is at risk for stopping treatment.

To encourage treatment completion.

Choose a meeting spot.

Read through the Checklist below.

Review the person’s Concerns,
Questions and Supports and Plan/Treatment Schedule.

Decide what points to talk about.

Talk to the nurse about special details or messages to pass along in the meeting.

Mentally prepare to listen and speak with the person.

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Congratulate the person on their progress so far.

• You can show where they are roughly in their treatment.

• Great job so far! Here’s roughly where you are in the treatment.

Some of these points can be skipped based on the situation!

Identify how the treatment is going.

• How are you doing? How is taking the pills going?

It’s no one’s fault if the person isn’t taking their pills - important to focus on what you can control and how we can make things easier.

Identify if past concerns were addressed.

• How are you feeling about the concerns you mentioned last time?

Identify new concerns and make changes to treatment plan as needed.

• Does the person have any new concerns that have come up since the last meeting?

• Are there other changes from the nurses to their treatment plan that need to be talked about?

Give a reminder to keep taking the treatment.

• Refer to Treatment Completion as needed.

• It’s great you’ve made it this far but we need to keep going until the end.

• Stopping treatment now would mean having to restart from the beginning.

• It could also means your TB could come back stronger.

Give a reminder about upcoming tests.

• Refer to TB Tests as needed.

• It looks like you are due for a follow up _________ (X-ray, blood test) on _________ (date).

Thank the person for coming in.

• Thanks for coming it! We’ll see you soon!

• If anything comes up, just give me a call!

Treatment for TB is long and not easy. Treatment completion is worth celebrating.

To help the person understand the benefit of follow ups.

To encourage TB-aware habits.

Choose a meeting spot.

Read through the Checklist below.

Talk to the nurse about special details or messages to pass along in the meeting.

Mentally prepare to listen and speak with the person.

Congratulate the person on finishing their treatment.

• Congratulations! You did it!

Identify how the person is feeling.

• How do you feel now that you are done? Physically? Mentally?

Remind the person of final evaluations with the nurse/doctor.

• Refer to TB Tests as needed.

• You’re all finished taking your pills. The doctor or nurse will want to ask a few quick questions as part of their end of treatment check up and you might have a few tests.

Educate on X-ray follow ups (SCR) over the next few years.

• Refer to SCR as needed.

• Number of X-rays and follow ups to be determined by the doctor.

• So we won’t be seeing you so much in here anymore but we still want to do X-rays a couple times a year just to make sure your lungs are still healthy and you are TB free.

Give a reminder on important points about TB and future disease/testing.

• Refer to Reinfection as needed.

• Last reminder: Even though your TB was killed, you can catch TB again. So it’s important to still be careful.

• If you are with someone who has Active TB, you may be asked to come to the clinic to answer some questions about your health and testing (possibly on top of your regularly scheduled X-ray).