Nursing Reflective Essay on Caring for a Patient with HIV
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This nursing reflective essay discusses the conflict between public and private self while caring for a patient with HIV. It also highlights the socio-cultural stigma associated with HIV and its implications on nursing practice.
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Running head: NURSING REFLECTIVE ESSAY NURSING REFLECTIVE ESSAY CARING FOR A PATIENT WITH BLOOD BORN DISEASE (HIV) Name of the student: Name of the University: Author note:
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1NURSING REFLECTIVE ESSAY Introduction: Providing equal care to each patient is my responsibility as a nurse, but in some cases I stuck between my private and public view, thus hesitate to provide care to some patients especially to the patient suffering from HIV. HIV has become a serious threat for the health system and I am afraid of suffering from the disease while providing care service to the person with HIV. Furthermore, there are some social stigma that restricts me to involve in the treatment of HIV (VÀlimÀki et al. 2010, pp.674-679). Thus, I am facing difficulties in utilizing my private and public view to improve the quality of service. Conflict between public and private self: My public view indicates that I am bound to provide essential care to the individual, whereas my private view limits my ability to provide care to the person with HIV. It is my personal perception that care process of a patient with HIV such as bringing meal, feed them, change clothes and vital sign assessment require less effort to ensure own safety (Karman et al. 2015, pp.65-75). Thus, I am willing to involve in such care process. However, I feel there are some other way of caring the HIV patient that needs more safety alert, such as injecting medicines, blood transfusion, clearing the vomit and feces, conduct IV fluid test and cleaning urine bag (VÀlimÀki et al. 2010, pp.674-679). According to me there is high chance of getting infected during such care process, thus I feel uncomfortable in involving in such tasks. Such stigma and personal belief has been influenced by some cultural stigma. I have recognized that people with HIV have to suffer from social isolation and negligence. I have learned from some literature that society beliefs that HIV is self-established and it is mostly contracted by homosexual people. Our society still isolated such people and as the illness is related to sexual transmission, the patients have to face enormous insult and blame for their illness (Tomori et al.