Common: HIV/AIDS Flashcards
HIV: An involuntary loss of 10% or more of body weight is part of which complication in an HIV positive person?
HIV Wasting Syndrome
HIV: When an HIV positive person has a the routine lab, viral load test, what is being measured?
HIV-RNA levels and the body’s response to the infection
HIV: Why are people who are HIV positive at risk for opportunistic infections?
The HIV virus attacks the normal immunologic fighter cells, CD4+ T-cells, making a person less able to fight infection.
HIV: What criteria are met to consider an HIV positive patient to have stage 3/AIDS?
- CD4+ T-cells < than 200 cells/IL
- Opportunistic infection diagnosis regardless of CD4+ count
HIV: When explaining treatment to a newly diagnosed HIV person, what one thing would you emphasize to achieve the goal for treatment?
Complete compliance to antiretroviral treatment regimen
HIV: What can a nurse to do promote complete compliance to the treatment regimen of an HIV positive person?
Communicate with the person in a non-judgmental, therapeutic manner
HIV: Is an HIV positive person less or more likely to receive routine medical treatment? Why?
Less likely. HIV positive people may feel stigmatized and marginalized, making them less likely to seek routine medical care.
HIV: Describe what “undetectable” means for an HIV positive person.
a person is “undetectable” when the viral load is low enough to not show up in a lab test. This means that the treatment has suppressed the virus adequately and that the person has little to no risk of transmitting the virus.
HIV: Explain the relationship between HIV infection and oral candidiasis
Although oral candidiasis can affect anyone, it occurs most often in clients whose immune systems have been compromised by illness, such as AIDS, or medications.
HIV: Describe Kaposi’s Sarcoma
Kaposi’s sarcoma are AIDS-related malignant skin and mucous membrane lesions that are usually purplish-brown, raised, and edematous
