Harm Reduction Outreach Nurse
Courage Medicine/Unity Recovery
Stephanie Klipp is a board certified addiction's registered nurse from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also certified through the Pennsylvania Certification Board as an Alllied Addiction Practioner (CAAP), and a Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS). Stephanie currently works as a Harm Reduction Outreach Nurse at Courage Medicine, where she offers low barrier buprenorphine and wound care. She is a community adovcate and educator around supporting individuals who use or inject drugs, with a focus on reducing stigma and promoting overall wellness. Stephanie has worked within addiction medicine programs to operationalize inpatient addiction consult services, and outpatient clinics for the treatment of opioid use disorders. She obtained her undergraduate nursing education at Pennsylvania State University, and is currently persuing her FNP in nursing. Stephanie also serves as a member on the Board of Directors of PNAP, the Pennsylvania Nurse Peer Assistance Program. As a preivous graduate of the program, she works to help mentor and adovcate for nurses impacted or suffering from addiction. She educates within various health systems, nurse residency programs, and nursing schools on implemention of harm reduction principles into clinical practice. Stephanie's research interest are are around nursing interventions and education that can be implemented in a health care setting to help create improved outcomes for patients with substance use disorders, across the health care spectrum.
