The Changing Face Of HIV

Name of Student Name of University Date The Changing Face of HIV HIV has quickly evolved into a chronic disease with implications that cut across the healthcare setting. However, the greatest responsibility falls on the nurse, bearing in mind that every nurse is now a HIV nurse. This is because nurses in many healthcare facilities have to deal with HIV patients as often as possible. Consequently, every nurse needs to have sufficient knowledge on testing, prevention, treatment and the chronicity of HIV. This will enable the nurses to provide high quality and efficient care to people living with or are at risk of the disease (Bradley-Springer et al, 2010). The biggest challenge that nurses face and need to address is the problem of adherence to HIV treatment regimens. HIV treatment requires high levels of adherence to medication, being a chronic disease. It does not help matters that HIV therapies are complicated and challenging to patients` daily lives (McDonald & Gerber, 1997), as well as those caring for them. For this reason, nurses need to find ways and means of enforcing 100%...