HIV & AIDS : A Foundation for Nursing and Healthcare Practice.

DESCRIPTION HIV & AIDS : A Foundation for Nursing and Healthcare Practice:

• Presents a new understanding of the issues behind HIV and AIDS.
• Discusses the dynamics of science driving patient outcomes, including epidemiology, retrovirology, immunology, and pathogenesis.
• Features new data on monitoring treatment, complementary and alternative medicine,
• and more.

KEY FEATURES

• New and unique illustration to demonstrate complicated scientific concepts
• Fully revised and updated with major new chapters on:
  • anti HIV therapy,
  • monitoring treatment,
  • adhering to therapy,
  • issues in the developing world,
  • complementary and alternative medicine,
  • preventing mother to infant transmission,
  • infection prevention and control, and
  • the management of occupational exposure to HIV infection in clinical practice
• Comprehensive provision of internet based resources with associated website addresses and extensive reccomendations for further reading
• Detailed GLOSSARY of technical terms to provide a ready reference for nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals
• Expanded and completely reorganized chapters on:
  • the clinical spectrum of HIV disease,
  • tuberculosis,
  • hepatitis,
  • neurologic conditions,
  • children with HIV disease,
  • medical treatment and
  • infection control