Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care articles

Recent articles from Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

HIV/AIDS Risk in the College Population: Modifying the Culture in a Private Religious University.
November 1, 1998... From 1991 to the present, the AIDS Task Force in a private religious university has established a broadbased, multidisciplinary, multifaceted program aimed at reducing sexual risk taking as well as related behaviors. This has been accomplished at no cost to the university. The task force...

Health-Related Quality of Life in HIV Disease: Achieving a Balance.
November 1, 1998... Using grounded theory methods, open-ended interviews were conducted with persons diagnosed with HIV disease to explore and describe how they adjust to living with their disease in relation to their health-related quality of life over the illness trajectory. A substantive theory was...

A Symptom Review: Nausea and Vomiting in HIV.
November 1, 1998... Nausea and vomiting are symptoms often experienced by individuals with HIV disease. The etiologies are multifactorial, yet the symptoms have not been well studied in HIV research. Interventions currently used are adapted from the oncology setting and remain to be tested on patients with...

Census Trends in AIDS Specialty Units.
November 1, 1998... As HIV disease evolves into a chronic and manageable disease, monitoring trends in HIV/AIDS inpatient use will become an important tool clinicians can use to analyze the need for organizational changes in patient care delivery. Monitoring census trends can assist nurses in developing plans...

Barriers to Self-Care in a Cohort of Low-Income White Women Living With HIV/AIDS.
November 1, 1998... In this cohort of 12 low-income White women with HIV disease, five conditions at diagnosis emerged as barriers to self-care: (a) health care provider (HCP) failure to mobilize resources, (b) HCP devaluing of women, (c) social devaluing, (d) economic problems, and (e) legal problems. The...