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| Title: | Pocket Guide for HIV & AIDS Nursing Care
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| Author: | Ansie Minaar & Candice Bodkin |
| ISBN: | 070217193X : 9780702171932 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x110mm |
| Pages: | 232 |
| Weight: | .252 Kg. |
| Published: | Juta Publishing (Academic) - January 2006 |
| List Price: | 18.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Nursing |
Offers practical solutions to the problems associated with nursing HIV and AIDS patients. Adopts a holistic approach and includes chapters on HIV and pregnancy, paediatric management, dealing with opportunistic infections and the principles of anti-retroviral therapy, as well as chapters on counselling and living positively with HIV and AIDS.
Transmission, prevention of the spread of HIV and AIDS and voluntary testing and counselling (VTC); Pathophysiology of HIV and AIDS; Opportunistic infections; Principles of antiretroviral therapy; Infection control issues; Living positively with HIV and AIDS, patient management and communication; Complementary and alternative medicine and HIV and AIDS management; Women and HIV and AIDS; HIV and pregnancy; Paediatric HIV and AIDS management; HIV and AIDS in the workplace; HIV and AIDS patients and critical care nursing; Home-based nursing care; Palliative care; Appendix: Introduction to the epidemiology of HIV; Bibliography; Glossary of HIV and AIDS terms; Acronyms and abbreviations; Index.
