Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care articles from March 1998

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care archives from March 1998

Nurses and Assisted Dying: Taking Our Roles to Heart and Mind.
March 1, 1998... Life, and how we live it, matters to us as humans, and because of this, the nature of our dying also matters. Our nursing values have been rooted in clinical practices directed toward upholding traditions of preserving life, and these roots...

End-of-Life Issues: A Survey of English-Speaking Canadian Nurses in AIDS Care.
March 1, 1998... This anonymous postal survey explored attitudes and experiences concerning end-of-life decisions. Respondents were English-speaking members of the Canadian Association for Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC) and other nurses identified as working...

Nurses' Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Assisted Suicide in AIDS.
March 1, 1998... This report of a 1995 survey presents data regarding nurses' attitudes and beliefs about assisted suicide in AIDS. The authors surveyed 428 nurses working at facilities serving AIDS patients in the San Francisco Bay Area, using an anonymous,...

Historical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects of Assisted Suicide.
March 1, 1998... This article explores the historical, ethical, and legal antecedents of assisted suicide. Following a differentiation between assisted suicide and euthanasia, the historical aspects of suicide in the United States and other countries are...

Palliative Care.(nursing)
March 1, 1998... Key words: Palliative care, symptom management The beginning of the HIV epidemic focused on finding treatments, identifying organisms, preventing transmissions, and collecting statistics while keeping infected patients alive. Recent...

Is Anybody Listening? A Phenomenological Study of Pain in Hospitalized Persons With AIDS.
March 1, 1998... Pain is a common problem among hospitalized persons with AIDS (PWAs), yet it has not been well studied. The purpose of this study was to understand, using the phenomenological method, the experience of pain in hospitalized PWAs. Multiple...

Oral Mucosal Transudate Testing for HIV-1 Antibodies: A Clinical Update.
March 1, 1998... The HIV epidemic and the social and clinical responses to it have changed dramatically in recent years in ways that significantly affect the nursing profession. In scope, the HIV epidemic has broadened demographically and geographically,...

HIV-Associated Distal Symmetrical Polyneuropathy: Clinical Features and Nursing Management.
March 1, 1998... HIV infection is associated with a variety of painful disorders of the peripheral nervous system (reviewed in Harrison & McArthur, 1995). These disorders, known as peripheral neuropathies, can impair functional status, limit physical...

Sarah's Song: A True Story of Love and Courage.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Sarah Song: A True Story of Love and Courage by Janice A. Burns. New York: Warner Books, 1996. 249 pp. $6.50. ISBN 0-446-60343-0. Sarah's Song is an autobiographical journal written by a young, recently married woman who becomes HIV...

HIV Subterfuge.
March 1, 1998... Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have discovered a devious strategy used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to undermine the immune system. The scientists found that even when HIV...

Nursing Leaders Spark Efforts to Improve Pain Management and Care at the End of Life.
March 1, 1998... PRINCETON, NJ, October 30, 1997--A national nurse-led project to improve the quality of nursing education in pain management and end-of-life care has been launched The project is codirected by Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, FAAN; and Marcia Grant,...

New Booklet--The Physician-Assisted Suicide Debate: Understanding the Issues.
March 1, 1998... NEW YORK (October 1997)--When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion about physician-assisted suicide in June, it left the states the responsibility to decide whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Debate over this issue is likely...

Erratum.
March 1, 1998... A sentence from Kathleen McMahon Casey's article, titled "Malnutrition Associated With HIV/AIDS. Part One: Definition and Scope, Epidemiology, and Pathophysiology," in Volume 8, Number 3, May/June was left out. The first sentence of the last...