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Homework answers / question archive / Discussion questions: week 6 - Chapter 20, 11/10/20 HIV and AIDS Please answer the questions associated with the synopsis
Discussion questions: week 6 - Chapter 20, 11/10/20 HIV and AIDS Please answer the questions associated with the synopsis. PART A Ms. Nicolette Nevin, age 26, has been diagnosed as HIV positive. She asks, "Do I have AIDS, and am I going to die?" 1. As her nurse, what should you say to her? 2. When is the patient with HIV considered to have AIDS? 3. Ms. Nicolette is started on a combination of trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole (TMP- SMX [Bactrim, Septra, Cotrim]) medication. Why? Sometime later in the day, Nicolette is diagnosed with AIDS with a CD4 T lymphocyte count of 200 cells/microl. Nicolette is 6 feet tall and weighs 135 lb. She is malnourished. 4. What are possible reasons? 5. What can you do as a nurse to improve her nutrition? Six months after being diagnosed with AIDS, Nicolette develops dementia. 6. Why? PART B 1. Sandy is a school nurse who is going to a high school to educate a group of juniors and seniors on HIV today. Included in her seminar for this group of high school students, she will discuss the following: a. How is HIV transmitted? b. How to prevent the spread to others? c. What is HIV?
