HSV Diagnosis for New Nurse Practitioners

So often in primary care, patients come in asking for testing for herpes, whether they have symptoms or not. Sometimes it’s because they “want to be tested for everything,” or are concerned about an exposure from a partner. As a new nurse practitioner, I wasn’t always confident about the best approach.
In this week’s video, I’m covering:
✅ When to consider HSV, and the unlikely ways it can present
✅ What the difference between primary, non-primary initial and recurrent infections are, and what it means for the patient
✅ The top differential diagnoses to consider
✅ How to test for HSV, what the gold standard tests are and what NOT to use
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Video Breakdown:
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Statistics
01:25 Symptoms
01:44 Primary Infection
02:25 Non-Primary Infection
04:19 Differentiation of HSV1 and HSV2
05:01 Recurrent Infection
06:02 Differential Diagnosis
06:41 Diagnosis and Testing
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