Resumen

This is the first text on AIDS written specifically for nursing personnel. It covers the evolution of the epidemic, its cause, routes of transmission, 'at risk' groups, medical treatment and nursing management. The author has developed a behavioural model, 'Strategic Nursing Care', to show a rational approach to the many varied issues which confront nurses in their attempts to deliver safe, sympathetic and high quality individualized nursing care. Strategic nursing care embraces not only the concept of direct patient care at the bedside, but also the management of that care by nurse managers as related to the problems hospitals face in caring for patients with AIDS. The text explains a logical approach to patient care in the general ward, in special departments and in the community, in a language familiar to a nursing audience. The book is referenced throughout, using the latest accepted research findings, and its recommendations are in line with guidelines published both in the UK and in the USA. This unique book contains much new information relating to the management of nursing services in hospitals caring for patients with AIDS, and the health education aspects of this disease are stressed throughout. The author thus provides nurses facing the most important public health issue of our time with a non-judgemental, compassionate description of the care required, and the management of that care, for patients with AIDS. (Extraído de la contracubierta)