The Person with HIV/AIDS: Nursing Perspectives - Hardcover

Durham, Jerry D.; Lashley, Felissa R.

9780826112934: The Person with HIV/AIDS: Nursing Perspectives

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826112935 ISBN 13: 9780826112934

Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 1999

Durham and Lashley have responded to the dramatic changes in the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a thoroughly updated, revised and expanded new edition of their superlative text. With a strong new emphasis on prevention, promoting wellness and the management of symptoms, ""The Person With AIDS/HIV, 3rd Edition"" addresses the new reality for this population of experiencing better and longer lives. In addition, this new edition includes chapters on special concerns of women, children, ethnic minority populations, and Internet sites. This comprehensive text on HIV/AIDS is where the nursing care is: on the front lines of the battle.

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Review:

It is both a pleasure and somewhat of a miracle to see a book as up to date and informative as this one...(The authors) have written a complete and definitive treatment of nursing care for patients infected with HIV disease, with a breadth from critical care to hospice care and a depth from pathophysiology to treatment. -- Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

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On the second edition: ""It is both a pleasure and somewhat of a miracle to see a book as up to date and informative as this one...(The authors) have written a complete and definitive treatment of nursing care for patients infected with HIV disease, with a breadth from critical care to hospice care and a depth from pathophysiology to treatment.""
--Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

Durham and Lashley have responded to the dramatic changes in the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a thoroughly updated, revised and expanded new edition of their superlative text.

With a strong new emphasis on prevention, promoting wellness and the mangement of symptoms, THE PERSON WITH AIDS/HIV, 3rd Edition addresses the new reality for this population of experiencing better and longer lives. In addition, this new edition includes chapters on special concerns of women, children, ethnic minority populations, and internet sites.

This comprehensive text on HIV/AIDS is where the nursing care is: on the front lines of the battle.

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