Instructor's Manual (HIV/AIDS: A Guide to Nursing Care) - Tapa blanda

Here's the expanded and updated edition of the most practical AIDS reference written specifically for nurses, again reflecting the latest research and experience with AIDS/HIV. Leaders in AIDS nursing discuss the immune system, nursing assessment, treatment, and therapeutic drugs. New chapters present women and IV drug users as populations with particular clinical and psychosocial needs in relation to HIV infection. Also covers transmission in the workplace, precautions for health care workers, and legal/ethical aspects of care.

A clinical handbook which provides detailed guidelines for managing AIDS/HIV infected patients. The book features detailed nursing care plans, and information on pathogenesis, medical care and current drugs in use. It also covers psychosocial and spiritual care, infection control and ethical aspects. The text is intended for nurses caring for AIDS patients in acute care, home, hospice and public or community health, and for students in undergraduate and graduate electives in AIDS/HIV infection.