AEGiS-BKREV: HIV/AIDS: Guide to Nursing Care

HIV/AIDS: Guide to Nursing Care

W.B. Saunders Co./Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., The Curtis Center, Independence Square West, Philadelphia, PA 19106. 515p., graphs, bibliog., index. ISBN 0-7216-3718-3.
Jacquelyn Haak Flaskerud, Peter J. Ungvarski. 2nd ed. 1993.

This book constitutes a "detailed guide to nursing, human service, and medical care, including the care of women, children, and intravenous drug users." It also "provides a comprehensive view of the spectrum of HIV disease to assist the nurse in clinical practice, whether that practice be in primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention of HIV." Student nurses as well as health and human service workers who use a case management approach to HIV care will find this a very useful book. An overview of the history of the epidemic and a description of the characteristics of HIV and how it affects the immune system are given first. Chapters then cover such topics as clinical manifestations of AIDS, nursing management of the adult client, nursing care of the child, psychosocial aspects, community-based and long-term care, cofactors of HIV and public health education, chemical dependency, HIV infection in women, infection control, ethical aspects, and living with AIDS.

For specific diseases a history is given followed by epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and considerations for nursing. This information is presented in textbook fashion but very readable and complete. In managing specific classes of individuals the information is presented in a logical manner with an overview, ways of transmission, prognosis, diagnosis, care delivery, and role of nurses. The chapters are then expanded to go into details of the specific diseases and problems associated with HIV. There are four important appendices--"Drugs used to treat infection and AIDS-related conditions," "Administration of aerosolized Pentamidine for Pneumocystis carnii Pneumonia Prophylaxis," "Case management," and "Deciding to enter an AIDS/HIV drug trial." This is an excellent book for any nursing student or practicing nurse and recommended for all medical libraries. (H. Robert Malinowsky)

Keywords: Nursing, Nurses' Instruction, Children, Psychosocial, Women, Ethics

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Copyright © 1993 - The University of Illinois at Chicago. All materials in the journal are subject to copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and may be reprinted or redistributed for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other reprinting, redistribution, or translation, address requests to H. Robert Malinowsky, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, PO Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680 or electronically to hrm@uic.edu.

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