HIVAIDS/Care of people with HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS
- Introduction to HIV/AIDS
- Overview of HIV/AIDS
- Health Promotion and Prevention of HIV
- HIV the virus
- AIDS and Opportunistic Infections
- Legal, Ethical, Moral Issues
- Mental Health and Spirituality
- Issues for Women and Children
- Sex workers and Intravenous Drug Users
- The face of HIV/AIDS
- Care of people with HIV/AIDS
- Community support and alternative therapies
- Critiquing literature and poster assignment
- Assessments
- Picture Gallery
Care of people with HIV/AIDS
Overview
In this topic the NANDA nursing diagnoses will be reviewed in preparation for assessment two; a care plan.
To Do
- Listen to the Elluminate recording of Jan talking about how she developed HIV infection. (MP3 version to come.)
- Please read through the assessment requirements for assessment two 'care plan.'
- You will need a NANDA Nursing Diagnoses book to help you with this. I use Carpenito-Moyet, L. (2004). Handbook of nursing diagnosis. (10th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Please provide 5 prioritized NANDA nursing diagnoses for one of the scenarios with a clear rationale as to why you chose the diagnoses, an objective for each diagnoses and prioritized interventions for each diagnoses.
- What students usually find helpful is to head a new page for each diagnosis, provide the rational, the objectives and the interventions for each diagnosis on the same page.
- For example you may choose nutrition altered as one of your diagnoses because your client has lost a significant amount of weight.
Diagnosis: Nutrition altered, less than body requirements related to anorexia, evidenced by loss of 8kgs of weight in a month. Rationale: You would provide here some brief information on the physiological changes and dangers of under nutrition. Objective: Gerry will increase 1kg per week until usual weight (60kgs). Interventions: - Consult with dietician - Find out Gerry’s likes and dislikes - Weigh every second day and document - Plan care so that unpleasant or painful procedures do not take place before meals - Assist Gerry to rest before meals - Maintain oral hygiene - Offer small frequent meals - Provide education on nutrition before discharge.
- Review your care plan so that a registered nurse could follow the required care of your client appropriately and safely.
