ANAC′s Core Curriculum for HIV/AIDS Nursing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761927778 ISBN 13: 9780761927778

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Everything you need to know about dealing with HIV/AIDS in one concise volume

ANAC′s Core Curriculum for HIV/AIDS

Nursing, New Century Edition

CHIEF EDITOR

Carl Kirton, MA, RN, ANP-CS

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Christine A. Balt, MS, RN, CS, ACRN; Pamela J. Dole, Ed.D., MPH, MSN, FNP, ACRN;
Brian K. Goodroad, Ph.D., RN, ANP, ACRN: Sandra Gracia Jones, Ph.D., ARNP, ACRN, C, CS; Elaine Gross RN, MS, CNS-C; and Barbara Swanson. DNSc, RN, ACRN

Written by nurses for nurses, this thoroughly revised edition of ANAC′s Core Curriculum for HIV/AIDS Nursing highlights the extraordinary improvements in clinical and symptom management in HIV/AIDS over the last 10 years.

Containing not only the essential information that every practitioner needs to know (taking a medical and social history, physical examination, symptomatic conditions and management, laboratory and diagnostic evaluation), ANAC′s Core Curriculum also covers specialized nursing information such as case management, ethical and legal concerns, infection control, and patient education.

Essential for those new to HIV/AIDS care as well as a refresher for those with years of experience in infectious diseases, ANAC′s Core Curriculum is a quick reference for clinical, symptomatic and psychosocial management of adults, adolescents, children, and infants at different stages of HIV/AIDS.

ANAC′s Core Curriculum presents key details of symptomatic conditions, AIDS indicator diseases, and comorbid complications. It also describes how to manage anorexia/weight loss, cognitive impairment, cough, dyspnea, dysphagia, oral lesions, fatigue, fever, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sexual dysfunction, and vision loss. Most importantly, ANAC′s Core Curriculum offers suggestions about how to help clients handle their own health, including preventing transmission, health care follow-up, managing anti-retroviral therapy, and improved adherence to prescribed regimes.

Dispensing not only clinical help, ANAC′s Core Curriculum details psychological assessment and deals with the psychosocial concerns of both clients and their significant others, including partners, spouses, families and friends. These important sections include information on how to help clients deal with the initial diagnosis, transitional issues (safer sex, depression), and coming to acceptance.

Other important sections include discussions of the special needs of pediatric patients, including nutritional concerns, risks associated with treatments, and clinical problems such as developmental delay. ANAC′s Core Curriculum also briefly covers special populations, such as commercial sex workers, health care workers, older adults, pregnant women, and incarcerated people.

ANAC′s Core Curriculum for HIV/AIDS Nursing, New Century Edition belongs in every nursing library and on the desk of every floor that deals with HIV/AIDS clients. Check it out today!

An Official Publication of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC)

 

Table of Contents

1. HIV Infection, Transmission and Prevention
2. Clinical Management of the HIV Infected Adolescent and Adult
3. Symptomatic Conditions in Adolescents and Adults with Advancing Disease

1. Symptomatic Conditions in Advanced Disease
2. AIDS Indicator Diseases
3. Comorbid Complications

1. Symptom Management of the HIV Infected Adolescent and Adult
2. Psychosocial Concerns of the HIV infected Adolescent and Adult and Their Significant Others
3. Concerns of Special Populations
4. Clinical Management of the HIV-Infected Infant and Child
5. Symptomatic Conditions in Infants and Child with Advancing Disease

1. Symptomatic Conditions in HIV Disease
2. AIDS Defining Conditions in Children with HIV Infection

1. Symptom Management of the HIV infected Infant and Child
2. Psychosocial Concerns of the HIV infected Infant and Child and Their Significant Others
3. Nursing Management Issues
4. Appendices

ISBN: 0-7619-2581-3

PUB DATE: Summer 2003

PAGES: 680 pages

Paperback

PRICE $59.95

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Kirton, MA, RN, APRN, BC

Carl Kirton received his undergraduate degree in nursing at Lehman College, NYC and holds a graduate degree in nursing education and a post-master’s certificate in advanced practice nursing from New York University, NYC. Mr. Kirton began his nursing career as a critical care nurse and progressed to the critical care nurse manager at New York University Medical Center. He began his advanced practice career in 1996 and has held a variety of position in substance abuse, internal medicine, cardiology, and HIV. Mr. Kirton joined the nursing faculty at New York University in 1993 and has taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing. During his tenure at NYU he was promoted to clinical associate professor and coordinator of the acute care advanced practice program. While on faculty at NYU he maintained a joint appointment to the advanced practice staff at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Hospital in the AIDS Center. Today, he is a nurse practitioner and the clinical manager of the AIDS Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He continues to teach in the advanced practice program at NYU as part of its adjunct faculty.

Mr. Kirton is the author of Handbook of HIV/AIDS Nursing and has authored or co-authored over 30 publications. He has held a variety of leadership positions in the professional nursing community, notably, President of the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Nurses of AIDS Care, and the Board of Directors of the National Association or Nurses in AIDS. In 2001 he was awarded the President’s award from the National Association of Nurses in AIDS Care for exceptional leadership in accomplishing committee work and dedication to the mission and goals of the association.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761927778
• ISBN 13: 9780761927778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Kirton Carl