Primary Health Care Nursing Roles

Running Head: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NURSING ROLES
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NURSING ROLES IN THE PREVENTION OF EXPOSURE
TO HIV/AIDS FOR AT-RISK POPULATIONS.
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Introduction
Both the World Health Organization and UNAIDS estimate that 33.3 million people
have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), of which around 10 million people have
received medical treatment and others require control. Although HIV has been discovered for
a long time and has made great progress in expanding prevention over the past decade, today
people are very afraid to communicate with persons living with the HIV/AIDS (H Lambdin et
al., 2015). The anxiety of AIDS is much severe that it is called the most fearful infection and
public health disaster in the health care field. The reason for this concern is that the virus is
still incurable. Regardless of this fact, nurses treat them like other patients. Since the
beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, nurses have been involved in supporting the
various capabilities of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients (White, Anderson,
Pfeil, Graffman & Trivedi, 2016).
Since the pestilence has developed from a standout among the most genuine general
wellbeing emergencies of the twentieth century along an incessant infection direction to a
treatable and preventable endless sickness, so have a consideration reaction (Famoroti,
Fernandes & Chima, 2013).In spite of the fact that HIV/AIDS is transmitted through sexual
contact, using needles, injects, flushing liquid or further HIV-infected drug injection tools,
rather than through childbirth or breastfeeding, most people have many misunderstandings
about the spread of HIV (Hughes & Alford, 2017).
White et al. (2016) reported the multiple effects of HIV on misunderstandings and
fears of suppliers. A few attendant nurses still have various kinds of dismissal and
renunciation of these patients, and experience pressure, dread, weakness and dissatisfaction
when thinking about HIV-positive patients. They face a variety of practical and ethical

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challenges when providing care. Acupuncture, risky protective instruments and potential
blood or the body liquid introduction are the primary dread components (Evans et al., 2015).
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Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the
response team to help people manage this deadly infection. Nurses are involved in every
stage of HIV infection, usually the first to provide advice to a newly diagnosed person, and
one of the last to be with him/her at the time of death. Nurses can play a substantial part in
the face of AIDS. At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, nurses provided a large amount of
in-hospital care during the difficult phase before ART, although there was no record of nurses
infected with HIV in the workplace (Mottiar & Lodge, 2018).
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, there have been some people who are
committed to the care of AIDS patients. However, little research has been done on their
recognition and encounters of AIDS care and their techniques to decrease pressure and
elevate their ability to mind. Depending on the experience of the nurse, physical, expressive
or mental risks as well as stress related with the AIDS care; aspects that can counter the
pressure of the AIDS care. Elevated eagerness for the care; and the specialist suggested by
AIDS pros when caring about AIDS patients, especially at risk but no fear of and bombing of
the senses developed (Kerr, Miller, Galos, Love & Poole, 2013).
Nurses' coping strategies include taking risks, reshaping risks, and protecting
themselves. Emotional stress in AIDS care includes witnessing pain, experiencing unresolved
grief, accepting diversity, emotional connections, harassment of AIDS units and work
requirements, and a decline in teamwork. Adapting methodologies incorporate adjusting
individual and expert life, managing pain, regarding control emotions, overseeing
requirements and looking for help. The nursing attendants keep up their profound point of

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view. They encountered a more noteworthy regular mankind and another point of view
through AIDS care. The results of the study show that AIDS-specific nurses use several
managing approaches. The experience of these professional nurses can help clinicians,
instructors as well as administrators support the care of nurses and increase the quality of the
care for the AIDS patients (García & Côté, 2013).
Certain interventions related to nurses’ capabilities are mandatory for primary,
secondary as well as tertiary prevention. In the principal school stage, preventive behaviour
education takes preference. Similarly, at the secondary stage, when a person receives HIV,
the nurse can assist by educating healthy behaviors that coexist with the HIV virus.
Consultation, providing health information as well as support about physical symptoms is an
important part. In the higher educational stage, the nursing interventions are considered as
more complex, as the quality of the personal life of nurse is compromised. This incorporates
the catastrophic feelings of the nervousness, disgrace, trouble and disappointment among
nurses taking care of the patients with HIV. Although the process, nurses' outlooks toward
people living with HIV are important (García & Côté, 2013).
Nurses want to ensure that their patients receive the best care, but in some cases, such
as taking care of HIV-positive patients, they are under great stress (Chen, Wang, Yang &
Fan, 2016). Nursing pioneers underline that nurses are considered nearest to patients and
ought to improve their expectations of conquering confinement and real depression (Collison
et al., 2016), but all nurses are not prepared to care for AIDS patients. Nurses who are
working with the HIV-positive patients experience many emotional and sensitive challenges.
They use a number of methodologies to ensure themselves, including restricted
correspondence, utilizing wellbeing standards, neutralizing, encouraging family as well as
people support, in addition emphasising religious opinions (Aminde et al. 2015).