What Nurses Know... HIV& AIDS
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Coping with Problems & Illness |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
208 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 152mm
Height: 229mm
Spine: 19mm |
| Weight |
376g |
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| Dewey Code |
616.9792 |
| Catalogue Code |
231571 |
Description of this Book
What Nurses Know...HIV/AIDS provides up-to-date, reliable and practical health information for people living with HIV and their significant others. In easy-to-understand everyday language the authors give information to help individuals with HIV navigate the healthcare system, covering everything from receiving an initial HIV test to becoming an engaged member of their healthcare team, knowledgeable and actively involved in their healthcare decisions. The authors include vignettes based on their real-life experiences that speak to the individual with aids. However, they approach HIV in a holistic manner and write not for the individual with HIV, but also their friends, family, and community.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
Over more than thirty years of the HIV epidemic...nurses have played an irreplaceable role in patient care, education, and support. Here's to Rose and Maithe, nurses who walk the walk every day; then go beyond the clinic to research and publish. What Nurses Know... HIV/AIDS provides plainly worded, practical, yet comprehensive answers to common questions. It should serve as a powerful tool to educate and empower, not only patients, family, and friends, but healthcare students and practitioners as well. --Michael R. Driks, MD, Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City, PC, Kansas City, MO <br> [All persons] living with HIV can do their part by educating themselves and others, practice safe sex, promote testing, stay engaged in care and by living well. This book will provide you with much needed knowledge and information. As we all know, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! HIV can stop with us one step at a time. --Deanna L. Hayes, HIV Peer Educator and Patient Advocate, Truman Medical Center, Hospital Hill, Kansas City, MO <br> Everyone should read this book! It is definitely not just for the HIV-positive individual. Anyone who reads it will benefit, and it is written in a way that is very easy to understand. This book should be given to all high schools students as part of their education. HIV/AIDS has been around for 30 years, and sadly the stigma is still with us today, and if people would just read this book, they may begin to realize HIV/AIDS is, after all, a 'human' condition that does not discriminate. --Patricia Trish Steen, HIV Peer Educator and Patient Advocate, Truman Medical Center, Hospital Hill, Kansas City, MO <br> There are a plethora [of] times when we get a 'How to' book on self-care [and then] we are diluted by the deluge of facts and recommendations. The ether of our innocence fades into time and so shall we follow. Comes now a book to help with our tomorrows. --Gerry Ortego, HIV Peer Educator and Patient Advocate, Truman Medical Center, Hospit |
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Author's Bio
Rose Farnan, RN, BSN, ACRN has been actively involved in the care of people living with HIV since 1991. In her current role as Infectious Diseases Program Manager at Truman Medical Center she has implemented several HIV programs targeting those clients most at risk for being poorly engaged or lapsing out of care. These programs include a Treatment Adherence Program utilizing HIV+ peer educators, a Bilingual Care Team providing enhanced services for Spanish speaking clients, and facilitated a collaboration of healthcare providers providing care to pregnant women and children, the Positive Pregnancy Project, which works to decrease mother to infant HIV transmission. She has developed several educational tools including Taking Control: A Health Maintenance Workbook, The Positive Pregnancy Guide, and HIV Action Plans. Maithe Enriquez, PhD, RN, ANP is currently Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She has published widely on the issue of HIV and AIDS in professional journals such as the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, and the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Maithe is a board member of the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and is very involved with the Hispanic Nurses society.
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