HIV in Nursing Education Name Institutional Affiliation HIV in Nursing Education Name
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HIV IN NURSING EDUCATION2HIV in Nursing Education An identifiable teaching and learning curve by the nurses is paramount to aiding nursesin teaching on ways and means of caring for patients with HIV and AIDs as well as in armingthem with knowledge intended for educating the masses on prevention and the spread of thedisease as well as evaluation of the disease and monitoring. Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) as research has been associated with (SIV) simian immunodeficiency virus transmittedfrom a particular type of chimpanzee in West Africa which was hunted by the indigenous WestAfricans and for food and mutated into HIV on contact with the hunter's blood. It has spread overdecades to other parts of the world.HIV virus was found in 1983 by French researchers at the Pasteur Institute in France asthe primary course of AIDS(acquired immune deficiency syndrome).At about the same time inthe United States of America Center for Disease control (CDC) listed groups of people at risk ofcontracting and spreading the disease (ANCA & ANA, 2007). Haitians, Homosexuals,hemophiliacs and heroin addicts. Haitians are thought to have carried the HIV virus from Africato the Haiti Island. Which spread rapidly from the island heavily associated with sex tourism inthe 70s.Homosexuals have an increased risk due to the fact that penetration is by both partners visa vis heterosexual sex which only one partner penetrates during coitus (Kapiga, Hayes & Buvé,2010). Hemophiliacs risk of contracting HIV is higher as their as they require blood regularly.Blood transfusions enable them to get their blood to normal clotting capabilities. Back then theywere at even higher risk of contracting and eventually transmitting the disease due to lack ofproperly screened transfusion blood. Last heroin addicts, as well as users of needle injectabledrugs that share the needles, do transmit as they did help from the start in spreading the disease(Cai et al., 2010).
HIV IN NURSING EDUCATION3Today HIV virus is commonly spread through contact with infected body fluids of ahuman to another human. It is the very same knowledge that nurses are and should be equippedwith in order to be able to dispense treatment and educative information on prevention of thedisease, re-infection of those patients already infected with the disease as well as how to care forthose already infected and affected (Cai et al., 2010).Nurses roles in the reduction of HIV spread and transmissions call for a change ofstrategy in regard especially to the victimization of people living with the virus as well asenlightening those people that are not infected but affected by the disease. This would be arelative or people who cohabit or leave with patients of HIV and AIDs. In the administration ofcare for the patients, nurses ought to educate and enlighten patients on the various means andways they can take care of themselves to wade off opportunistic illnesses. In Africa where theprevalence rate of the virus is higher than in other parts of the globe victimization can lead and insome instances has to lead to new infections where someone suffering from the disease due tovictimization has lead to infecting others. Behavioral change should be taught to both affected andinfected (Tunnicliff et al., 2013).During nursing care, nurses ought to be trained on the best and most effectivemechanisms of educating masses as well as patients in regard to living with the HIV and AIDS aswell as how people perceive the disease. For instance in Uganda –a country that at one time hadthe highest number of HIV cases the government introduced /implemented comprehensiveprograms for HIV and AIDS which included best birth practices, prevention of infection frommother to infants among others. A national awareness program was also implemented to educatethe citizens of the country on HIV and AIDS (Areti, 2011).
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