HIV Care - A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

List of contents

HIV Guidelines Philosophy Statement
HIV Counseling and Testing
Working with Chemically Dependent Patients
Working with ¿Noncompliant¿ Patients
Mental Health, Psychosocial, and Spiritual Issues
Medical Management
HIV Infection in Women
Gynecologic Management Guidelines
HIV Infection in Pregnant Patients
Management Guidelines
Experimental and Complementary Therapies
Guidelines for HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents or Those Suspected to be HIV Infected
Neuropsychological Manifestations of HIV Disease
Housing and Home Care
Financial Assistance
Legal Issues
Resources

Summary

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie J. Andrews, Laurie B. Novick
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.1995
• EAN: 9780803970830
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7083-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 540 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, infectious diseases, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases