Making a positive choice in your life if you are diagnosed with HIV can relieve a lot of stress as well as allow other people to make positive choices, regardless if it is dealing with stress or communicating with your sex partner, as well as disclosing to family and friends.
Some stressors are minor and easy to deal with, while other stressors can be major and can be overwhelming. For some people, HIV/AIDS can be at the top of the list as a stressor, for other HIV/AIDS may not be the number one stressor in life depending on the individual.
Healthy relationships of individual’s living with HIV/AIDS can be simply communicating clearly to someone on a daily basis. But let’s put a twist to this, stress of an individual that is diagnosed with HIV can be a significant issue in their lives if they do not know how to deal with their feelings or communicate about their diagnosis as well as simple things such as going to the doctor to make sure that they stay healthy.
Using effective communication skills is a way to reduce stress in certain situations. Most individuals that live with HIV have not gotten comfortable with others to reinforce a conversation of their health condition with living with HIV/AIDS. It is easy to say the “I” statements just to get started, so that the other individual can improve and recognize their feelings and what causes them, which helps to control emotions. There are many ways to communicate; however, living with HIV/AIDS makes it stressful to do this in a normal
AIDS.gov (2014) stated that “HIV” is an abbreviation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus. To give you a better understanding of what that means, let’s break it down. AIDS.gov (2014)
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...ith HIV be able to adhere to their quality of life by providing them with the skills to prevent re-infection and transmission as well as be pro-active in their health maintenance.
Implementing healthy relationships will give individuals that have HIV the skills that are necessary to create effective disclosure amongst themselves, as well as allow them to make decisions to negotiate safe sex. Positive choices and having healthy relationships are based on the decision of whether or not to disclose an individual’s HIV status, which is very prevalent in reducing the risk of transmitting HIV. Positive choices and having healthy relationships are also prevalent amongst peers that are able to reach peers, as well as encouraging the use of a person living with HIV the ability to allow reach individuals who are implementing sexual behaviors that are placing them at risk.
It is a virus that gradually attacks the immune system, which is our body 's natural defence against illness. If a person becomes infected with HIV, they will find it harder to fight off infections and diseases. AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. AIDS is a syndrome caused by the HIV virus. It is when a person’s immune system is too weak to fight off infections, and develops when the HIV infection is very advanced.
According to Hirsch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC,2014), “more than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection. Almost one in six of this group are unaware that they are infected”. Not knowing that you have a HIV is a bad thing because it not good to wait so late to have test done. Some symptoms of the early stage of being infected with HIV are deeply pained headaches, very high fevers a sweating a lot. The sweating and fever could lead to Flu or mononucleosis, which could make the whole infection even worse. Bad thing about this infection the first month or two the symptoms go away after that. During the early stages of being infected a person is very infectious. Some of the symptoms
It will be difficult for a HIV/AIDS patient to keep away from all of these different types of infections but constantly taking their antiretroviral medication is the first step. Routine physicals, blood tests, and eye examinations are significant because at times the patient may have no symptoms.
In this assignment, I am going to review four cases, which will require a number of different communication skills focusing primarily on; developing a therapeutic relationship, communicating assertively, communicating effectively with an individual with a disability/impairment and communicating with individuals from another culture. I will discuss building a therapeutic relationship and effective communication with each patient.
In health and social care effective communication a key skill all professionals should have when working with families, carers, children and young people. Having this skill helps to build trust it can also encourage the individual to use the services. Effective communication is essential when trying to establish and maintain relationships and it is a process that involves listening, questioning, responding and understanding. However there are many barriers that can effect how effective the communication is a few examples of these barriers could be: language, personality, visual or auditory impairment or a disability. In order to over come these barriers there have been many advances in the strategies that can help in situations where the communication is not effective, a strategy is a method or a plan that can help someone or something succeed in achieving a goal or result.
2) Reduce the death rate among persons with diagnosed HIV infection by at least 33
The nurse- patient relationship is an important key for nurses, because it can help to provide competent care and quality for the patient. Communication is the best way to approach a patient, obtain health history and understand their behaviors. Often effective communication with the patient can be hard for nurses because of a lack of time due to work overload or lack of professionalism in these areas, and lack of knowledge for nursing students. Nurses must learn the different types of communication that can help them to gain more skills to communicate more effectively. Patients with different types of mental health problem sometimes are able to interact in a conversational setting, and nurses can support these interaction efforts using different strategies. For example, nurses should have important conversations in a quiet environment, these approach should be undertaken to ensure maximal resident engagement in the planning and delivery of nursing
Peter Vanable, a professor and chair of psychology at Syracuse University, conducted extensive research on the behavioral aspects of HIV and coping. He analyzed, for example, how HIV stigma affects mental health and medication adherence. “A significant subset of men and women who are HIV positive experience social rejection from family, from loved-ones [and] from partners, and those experiences of discrimination and rejection can really play out in difficult ways,” Vanable says. The way people react to news of an HIV diagnosis, he continues, can shape a patient 's long-term psychological response. “People 's experiences with social rejection and people’s internalized feelings of self-rejection tend to go hand-in-hand,” Vanable says.
HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus; this virus can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Accoring to Avert, 2.6 million people became infected with HIV in 2009, there are now an estimated 33.3 million people around the world who are living with HIV. HIV is transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids via sharing contaminated syringes, from infected mother to the child, and sexual contact. Contact with blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk, or saliva that is contaminated with HIV, puts an individual at higher risk for contracting HIV. However, HIV cannot be transmitted by touch, coughing, or by bits from insect vectors.
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The authors worked for the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies which belongs to AIDS resea...
Various articles examining the ethical and legal issues surrounding the disclosure of HIV status prior to sexual relationships make evident that the disadvantages of disclosure outweigh the benefits, making clear that disclosure is unnecessary.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) first came to light in 1981. There has been a long and arduous global effort on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. HIV is a virus that is spread through body fluids that affect the specific T-cells of the immune system. Without treatment HIV infection leads to AIDS and there is no cure for AIDS. HIV infection can be controlled and the importance of primary pre...
As a social worker it is important to have basic communication skills in order to connect with clients. There are six basic and four advanced skills that are used in direct practice to make communication more effective. The basic skills include reflection of feelings, paraphrasing, open ended questions, closed ended questions, clarification and attending behaviors. Advanced skills consist of summarization, information giving, interpretation and confrontation. Not only is it important to know what these skills are, it is also important to know what the appropriate and inappropriate uses are. It is also important to self-reflect on your use of these skills, and whether it is a strength or something to continue to work to improve on.
...ry medical treatment. Obtaining medical treatment, and counseling will give HIV positive employees the correct knowledge about their condition. This will also help HIV negative employees in receiving facts about the virus and ways to protect themselves.