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.
What Nurses Know Series:
Nurses hold a critical role in modern health care that goes beyond their day-to-day duties. They share more information with patients than any other provider group, and are alongside patients twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week offering understanding of complex health issues, holistic approaches to ailments, and advice for the patient that extends to the family. Nurses themselves are a powerful tool in the healing process.
The What Nurses Know series will give down-to-earth information, address consumers as equal partners in their care and explain clearly what a reader needs to know and wants to know to understand their condition and move forward with their lives.
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 Centre 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.
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Maithe Enrique, 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.