HIV/AIDS Nursing Secrets.

OVERVIEW

HIV/AIDS Nursing Secrets is a comprehensive look at one of the leading health problems of our times.

The question and answer format helps to clarify information that is necessary for anyone involved in the healthcare setting. The book contains a review of statistics and trends both nationally and globally, as well as legal and ethical issues related to HIV/AIDS.

It presents in-depth discussions of topics such as diagnostic testing, the pathophysiology of HIV/AIDS, nutrition, opportunistic infections, co-infection with hepatitis C, and adherence. The special needs of vulnerable populations are also examined.

KEY FEATURES

• Engaging, interactive Q & A format


• Concise answers with valuable pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets"


• All the most important, "need-to-know" questions and answers in the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secret Series®


• Thorough, highly detailed index

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ORIGINS AND TRENDS

1. Epidemiology
2. What Is Going on Inside?
3. Health and Psychosocial Assessment
4. Adherence to Treatment
5. Nursing Care of Patients with HIV/AIDS
6. Telephone Triage for People with HIV/AIDS: You Make the Call
7. Complementary Therapies
8. Postexposure Prophylaxis
9. Ethical and Legal Issues
10. HIV/AIDS and Spirituality

11. Viral Hepatitis C
12. Opportunistic Infections
13. Neurologic Problems
14. Wasting Syndrome and Metabolic and Morphologic Complications
15. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV

16. Children and HIV/AIDS
17. Adolescents and HIV/AIDS
18. Women and HIV/AIDS
19. Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS
20. The Elderly and HIV/AIDS

21. Injection Drug Users
22. Culturally Competent Care
23. HIV/AIDS Behind Bars
24. Severe Mental Illness