The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) presents the essential information needed by every nurse working with HIV/AIDS patients in any setting. The text provides an educational framework for HIV/AIDS clinical content and serves those preparing for specialty certification in HIV/AIDS training. The text covers: A) Infection, transmission, and prevention B) Clinical management of a variety of patient types C) Symptomatic conditions and symptom management D) Special populations E) Psychosocial concerns for patients. ANAC's Core Curriculum for HIV/AIDS Nursing, Third Edition includes the following new topics: Updates to the evidence basis underlying the nursing care of persons with HIV/AIDS. New issues and challenges including the care for pediatric patients and adults with giardia, syphilis and bipolar disease. New text features including case studies and quizzes.

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 HIV Infection, Transmission and Prevention Clinical Management of the HIV Infected Adolescent and Adult Symptomatic Conditions in Adolescents and Adults with Advancing Disease Symptomatic Conditions in Advanced Disease AIDS Indicator Diseases Comorbid Complications Symptom Management of the HIV Infected Adolescent and Adult Psychosocial Concerns of the HIV infected Adolescent and Adult and Their Significant Others Concerns of Special Populations Clinical Management of the HIV-Infected Infant and Child Symptomatic Conditions in Infants and Child with Advancing Disease Symptomatic Conditions in HIV Disease AIDS Defining Conditions in Children with HIV Infection Symptom Management of the HIV infected Infant and Child Psychosocial Concerns of the HIV infected Infant and Child and Their Significant Others Nursing Management Issues Appendices ISBN: 0-7619-2581-3 PUB DATE: Summer 2003 PAGES: 680 pages Paperback PRICE $59.95

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.

The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care is a nonprofit professional nursing organization committed to fostering the individual and collective professional development of nurses involved in the delivery of health care to persons infected or affected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and to promoting the health, welfare, and rights of all HIV infected persons.