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 as antibiotic treatment changes are made.

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

To encourage treatment completion.

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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?

• Is the person coming out of isolation? Starting Phase 2?

• 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.

• I’m so glad to hear you’re feeling better! But it’s important now to keep going until the end.

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

• It could also mean your TB could come back stronger and able to spread to others again.

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, spit 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!