Hiv/Aids: A Guide to Primary Care

By Peter J. Ungavarski, Jacquelyn Haak Flaskerud PhD RN FAAN, Peter J. Ungvarski MS RN ACRN FAAN

The 4thEdition of this award-winning book is the first resource to offer a multidisciplinary case management approach to the care of people living with HIV/AIDS. It focuses on the needs of people with HIV infectionintegrating the contributions that doctors, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, and other professionals make to client care. Editors Peter Ungvarski and Jacquelyn Flaskerud are widely recognized and extensively published authorities in the field.a research-based approach to careand when data is not available uses evidence-based practice.Explores both the physiological and psychosocial factors relevant to HIV prevention and health promotion.
Offers coverage of maternal/child concerns...the needs of special populations...social, cultural, spiritual and psychiatric issues...legal and ethical considerations...and many other aspects of client care.Examines a wide spectrum of approaches to symptom management, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions as well as alternative and complementary therapies.
Integrates issues in community-based and long-term care including home care, home infusion therapy, institutional long-term care, residential care, and hospice care.Supports the psychosocial needs of professionals who care for people with HIV disease.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721673228
• ISBN13: 9780721673226
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

The Basics of Treating HIV/AIDS Clients

This is the book that every nurse that is caring for HIV/AIDS clients should have as their foundation resource. Peter Ungvarski has brought together an outstanding group of contributors to make this a "bible" for the practitioner that is a novice to the practitioner that is an expert. The text is truly all inclusive, in my opinion. It covers all aspects of aging from infancy to older adult. It delves into the world of the psychosocial and neuropsychiatric dysfunctions. And, Mr. Ungvarski and his contributors delve into the needs of special populations, i.e., men who have sex with men, older adults, injecting drug users, transgendered/transsexual persons, and commercial sex workers to name a few.Mr. Ungvarski and his contributors go on to discuss alternative and complementary therapies and the issues that arise with implementing these therapies. They discuss the issues of culture and ethnicity and how it relates to HIV/AIDS. And, they discuss legal and ethical issues and how they play a role in the world surround HIV/AIDS.As a practitioner, this is the foundation I use. I highly recommend it as the resource for HIV/AIDS!