AIDS Patient Care

AIDS Patient Care

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The principles of Treatment:

ISOLATION
Basically, AIDS patients can be treated in the usual space infection. Sometimes AIDS patients need care in one special room for consideration:

• Protect AIDS patients from other infections both endogenous and exogenous.
• Facilitate the provision of nursing care.

REGULATION OF OFFICERS
a. Nursing team who suffered from infections, skin disorders and pregnant women should not be treating AIDS.
b. Wearing Barakshort (long underwear), masks and eye coverings and gloves for taking action:

• Bathing.
• Helping defecation and urination.
• Preparing laboratory materials.
• Changing clothes and loom.
• Expenditure measure urine, faeces or vomit.
• Doing huknah / klisma and catheterization.
• Perform procedures medical / invasive: infusion set, clearing the airway, injection and others.
• Caring for the body.

c. Wash hands before and after treatment measures despite wearing gloves and using a disinfectant under running water.
d. Reporting to the special team handling AIDS in the hospital when exposed to needle puncture scars in use in people with AIDS or splashing liquids when exposed to AIDS sufferers in the eyes, mouth or injured body part.
e. Giving plastic coating on the pillow and mattress as a shield so easy to wash.
f. Replacing the label reads "MATERIALS TRANSMITTED / HIV" in all specimen bottles that will be sent to the laboratory.
g. Cleaning the bathroom and treatment room regularly.
h. uphold the official secret.

PREVENTION OF CONTAMINATION AND CLEANING EQUIPMENT
a. All equipment used by people with AIDS should be set apart.
b. Use disposable tools in the tools such as syringes, infusion set, catheter, endotracheal(ET) tube and others.
c. Loom such as mattresses and pillows were given a plastic coating before it is used to prevent the attachment of blood or body fluids. The loom is already in use fed into a special plastic bag, labeled "INFECTIOUS MATERIAL / HIV", then tied and sent to the place of washing.
d. Gloves are used every action, straightening the bed and holding a tool that has been contaminated.
e. Tool is not the kind of disposable, should be sterilized immediately after use.
f. Masks, oxygen hose, and other breathing aids must be sterilized after use.
g. Instruments wound care or medical equipment, once used soaked with disinfectant solution and then sterilized according to the rules of sterilization.

CONTAMINATED MATERIALS
a. All remaining tissue, blood, body fluids, bandages, needles and abbocath(venous catheter) used during the action placed in hard plastic bag, double-layered, puncture resistant, waterproof and special color, and then given the label "MATERIALS TRANSMITTED / HIV" and then burned.
b. Give the guards with plastic alt on the operating table, operating coat, the base of the hands or head if done action intubation / cannulation / extubasi trachea.

PATIENT RIGHTS
a. patients may visit the facilities available in hospitals such as the television room, canteen and others.
b. Patients can receive guests at the time of visit and may be accompanied during the treatment, except in conditions of infection.
c. Patients with severe diarrhea may only use the special toilet.

COUNSELING
a. Counseling is an important aspect that aims to:

• Provides information on all matters relating to HIV infection which include, among other causes, clinical symptoms, patterns of transmission, prevention and others.
• Providing psychological and social encouragement to patients and families in dealing with problems of physical and psychological, so the patient can overcome the problems independently.
• Providing encouragement to the patient to adjust to new conditions, among others by holding a sexual behavior change, to reduce the spread of the HIV virus to others.

b. Counseling done by doctors and or nurses who have been specially trained.
c. Counseling target not only patients and families but all health workers including nurses, physicians, laboratory workers, laundry officers and others.

MAINTENANCE OFFICER ATTITUDES
a. Understand, understand and have skills in providing nursing care.
b. Be calm, fair, and not excessive but remain vigilant in helping patients.
c. Understanding the state of the patient, show empathy.
d. Be protected.