ROLE OF NURSES IN HIV TESTING

Role of Nurses in HIV Testing



Role of Nurses in HIV Testing

Objectives

Identify traits of disease and infection, which determine the performance and attitude of nurses.

Show institutional strategies in nursing practice with these patients.

Analyze influences and behaviours of patients with HIV-AIDS and family about the work of professionals.

Identify potential problems in attitude and practice, appearing in the interaction with these patients.

Methodology

A study of nature about the attitude of professional nursing to the care provided to people living with HIV-AIDS in the three nursing, in the first half of 2005. Given the conduct in the work, feeling and thinking, assessing its performance in the image and action to understand the reality that emerges from social interaction.

The sample represented by 105 nurses who applied to an instrument designed with twenty-three questions. The same determined using variables such as behaviours, attitudes and strategies. Results analyzed using statistical techniques, using calculators, Pentium 98 computer, printer and human resources (Leasure 2004, 299).

Introduction

The syndrome (AIDS) has caused one, but three interrelated global epidemics, HIV-AIDS itself and the reactions and social responses, economic, political and cultural rights, together with previous epidemics. The first epidemic (that related to HIV infection), and in 1988 it estimated there were between five and ten million people infected with the virus worldwide, with inevitable further spread the virus.

The second epidemic of AIDS is the disease, although first identified in the United Kingdom in 1981; AIDS had already manifested itself in various parts of the world in the late seventies. 1st July 1985, there were a total of 100,410 officially reported AIDS cases in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, however, for various reasons, particularly because they are not diagnosed or declare all existing cases.

Today we declare the recent new cases of infection with an average of 3 to 5 years and even before, it estimated that for every case of AIDS may have between 25 and 100 people infected with HIV, a proportion that falls increasingly over the years.

In the basic principles of good nursing practice, apply to the care of people infected by the spiritual support of family and friends, this application supported and promoted by effective leadership of staff. Patients infected with HIV, nurses facing many problems such as AIDS is a disease said to be no cure, the diagnosis of HIV infection, usually has a devastating impact on the individual, family, friends, also causing emotional distress to the nurses themselves, fear of contagion to the stigma often associated with AIDS. Nurses are in a position to provide social assistance that respects the dignity of the individual and an example of neutral and appropriate attitude to other health care workers. The community members in the code for nurses of the International Council for Nurses (CIE) on AIDS which states that the nurse is responsible for meeting the health and social needs of the community. The exercise of the profession and creates an environment in which the values, customs, and beliefs of the individual respected and reserves ...