Reflective writing about my sister's experience with domestic violence

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The reflective writing will be based on my experience, I encounter when my sister got
admitted into the hospital with an incident of domestic violence. The incident will shed light
on both the responsibility, challenges, government interventions, and the social, cultural
aspects of infectious diseases in the country.
Three years ago, my sister had just been married, and suddenly, one day, I got a call
from the hospital stating my sister being admitted to the hospital with severe illness. She was
diagnosed with having had high stubborn fever and diarrhea for the last few days. The patient
also lost massive weight in the previous few weeks. She seemed very tired, as she was unable
to sit in the regular check-up room, and her eyes were shutting down due to fatigue. The
doctors had analyzed her symptoms and understood that she might be suffering from any
infectious disease. The nurses immediately checked her blood pressure and fever. An urgent
blood test for infections was needed to understand the type of infection and its severity. I
observed that an immediate meeting was conducted by the medical team to conjure the
pathology team and make them arrange a blood test for her. While the team started with their
protocol, I noticed that the pathology team proceed with the blood collection without using
gloves. The blood report stated that my sister was positive with the human immune virus
(HIV +). The medical team was immediately informed about my sister’s degrading condition.
My sister was devastated to know that she is HIV positive and refused to undergo any further
treatment, as she thought that her death was evident. (Maartens, Celum and Lewin 2014).
However, the senior nurse consoled and convinced her to undergo treatment. She was
immediately transferred to the HIV division of the hospital. A weekly routine blood test was
designed and including CBC, CD4, Chemistry panel, and viral role to measure her health
condition (Santoso et al. 2015).
Eventually, the background of my sister was stated. It came to the knowledge that she
was severely tortured at her home and started using drugs to escape the pain. It also was

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revealed that she was sharing a needle with a group of people to get drug injection for a while
(Pasa et al. 2016). It was prevalent and almost a culture among the drug taker people to share
personal stuff. Dealing with my own sister’s case, I came to know many of the aspects of
today’s world and how much low social awareness of the infectious disease is being
portrayed amongst the population. It was my responsibility to make her aware of the disease
and convey her about the basic information about HIV and her condition. The doctor’s team
was also found to monitor her improvement concerning her medical and emotional conditions
like tolerance level (MacDougall 2015).
Health care team need to be very responsible for the blood collection; blood test and
patient care and it is mandatorily to use mask, apron, and gloves, to avoid any kind of
transmissible disease (Who.int 2020). The pathology team in my sister’s case was found to
violate the guidelines by not using gloves during blood collection. Negligence, as such, can
lead to an outburst of infectious disease, also strengthening the risk of the blood collector to
get infected by HIV. The accountability, an NMBA standard in the nursing term, refers to
appropriate communication between the nurse and his patient. The nurse needs to make the
patient understand the situation, take quick action, and make an appropriate decision. The
standard of accountability was observed to be maintained by the senior nurse as she was
successful in making my sister calm down and relax by talking to her and counseling her. She
also encouraged me to educate my sister, ensuring her quick recovery as well as maintaining
the standard of NMBA (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au 2020, Ball 2017).
By the experience, I got to know that The government of Australia is very strict about
the prevention of AIDS. There are different levels of prevention models, including primary
prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is
a modern primary prevention way, where people with high HIV risk are administrated with
pills to prevent HIV infection. However, other sexually transmitted infection does not get