QUIZ#3 Flashcards
a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight
infection and disease.
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
SYNDROME
HIV is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). It can also be spread by contact with infected blood or from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breast-feeding. Without medication, it may take years before HIV weakens your immune system to the point that you have AIDS.
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
SYNDROME
Transmission of HIV occurs mainly by exchange of body
fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk, and
perinatal events.
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
SYNDROME
a particular disease which entirely affects the infected person: his/her physical appearance, mental, morale, close
relatives, and all his/her social relations.
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
SYNDROME
By damaging your
immune system, _____ interferes with your body’s ability to fight
infection and disease.
HIV
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
SYNDROME IS a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the?
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
HIV
How are HIV spread?
- spread by contact with infected blood
- from mother to child during pregnancy
- childbirth or breast-feeding.
How are HIV transmitted?
exchange of body
fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk, and
perinatal events.
What does HIV affects in a person?
- his/her physical appearance
- mental
- morale
- close relatives,
- his/her social relations.
What are instances/scenarios of increased risk of acquiring the HIV infection
- injecting drug users (IDU)
- male and female sex workers
- men who have sex with men
How does HIV-aids became a public health issue worldwide?
because of its:
* high prevalence
* its pathogenic character
* its mortality
* its morbidity.
Why is aids an issue?
▪ Mainly because of the manner in which AIDS is acquired.
▪ severe discrimination is exercised against AIDS patients.
Who are those people usually infected with the HIV virus?
- homosexual
- bisexual
- intravenous drug users
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AMONG HIV/AIDS PATIENTS
- Emotional—shock, numbness, disbelief, confusion, uncertainty about present and future, denial, guilt, frequent changes of mood, sadness, and concern about the future.
- Behavioral—crying, anger expressed verbally and physically, withdrawal, checking the body for signs of infection/deterioration.
- Fear of pain, death, disability, loss of functioning, loss of privacy/confidentiality, desertion, etc.
- Loss of future and ambitions, physical attractiveness and potency, sexual relationship, status in community, independence, control over life, and confidence.
- Guilt about the behavior that resulted in HIV infection, infecting others, and disrupting the life of others.
- Grief over the loss of health.
- Isolation due to social stigma.
- Resentment at changes in living patterns.
- Depression due to absence of a cure, loss of personal control, etc.
- Anxiety about prognosis, social, occupational, domestic, and sexual hostility and rejection.
- Anger about the helplessness of the situation, unfair fate, others who are infection-free, health care workers, and others who discriminate.
- Loss of self-esteem due to rejection, loss of confidence, loss of identity, physical impact of HIV infection, etc.
- Obsession due to pre-occupation with health.
- Suicidal thoughts and acts.
- In some instances, a symptom complex similar to post-traumatic stress disorder is
common in the first few weeks after notification of HIV positivity. - The person may become extremely anxious and hyper-vigilant about physical symptoms, exhibiting marked dependence on health care providers.
- Other responses are—transient or chronic sexual dysfunction and social withdrawal due to fear of infecting others or of social rejection.
- Significant others of patients with HIV disease face many stresses associated with the
patient’s illness. They may experience grief response, financial concerns, and lack of
social support due to stigma attached to illness. - Many psychiatric syndromes are associated with HIV/AIDS. Depression, anxiety,
paranoia, mania, irritability, psychosis and substance abuse are common in HIV
positive persons.
screening issues of HIV
A conflict between:
▪ The necessity to protect the population health in general
- Application of the principle of common good
▪ The necessity to protect people as free individuals having rights
- respecting patient’s autonomy (privacy & confidentiality)
Stigmatization Follows the Discrimination of HIV
Patients
Discrimination results to hesitation to give care, and gossiping about patient’s extra marital relationship, create a kind of guilty
feeling, grief, depression, fear, anger, suicidal thought, and act of
self isolation and loss of self-esteem in the patient.
▪ Respect AIDS patients rights to:
- mingled with society, be respected by family, society, get
informed and oriented, privacy, get diagnosis tested and further
treatment, earn his/her own living, get education, get back the
job after treatment, get equal societal treatment,
Ethical Responsibilities of nurses aiding HIV-Aids infected patients
▪ respect the dignity of their patients by observing privacy and
confidentiality
▪ respect for persons
* respecting the decisions of autonomous persons and protecting persons
who lack decision-making capacity
* obligation to treat persons with respect by maintaining confidences and
keeping promises.
▪ Beneficence
* imposes a positive obligation to act in the best interests of patients
▪ Justice
* requires that people be treated fairly
- respecting the decisions of autonomous persons and protecting persons
who lack decision-making capacity - obligation to treat persons with respect by maintaining confidences and
keeping promises.
respect for persons
imposes a positive obligation to act in the best interests of patients
Beneficence
requires that people be treated fairly
Justice
PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACHES OF
NURSES
▪ Planning health care for person with HIV/AIDS must involve the multidisciplinary
team.
▪ Interventions include case management, medications, risk reduction, support
groups, crisis intervention, encouragement of productive activity, enhancement of
self-esteem, grief counselling, support during terminal stages, and support of
significant others.
▪ The psychiatric interventions for patients with HIV/AIDS are as follows:
▪ The psychiatric interventions for patients with HIV/AIDS are as follows:
- Helping the patients changes risky behavior, thus promoting prevention of HIV infection.
- Helping patients during the difficult process of HIV testing (pre- and post-test counselling).
- Helping to establish the diagnosis and treatment of other psychiatric illnesses commonly seen
in patients with HIV. - Implementing psychosocial interventions like psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,
counselling, etc. - Helping patients, their families, and others in their lives with interpersonal problems related to
HIV/AIDS. - Assisting AIDS patients during the final phase of their illness.
ROLE OF THE NURSE IN PROTECTING aids PATIENTS
- Nurse as advocate—change agent
- Nurse as counsellor, communicator
- Active implementer responsible and accountable nurse
- Nurse as a comforter
- Veracity, fidelity towards HIV patients
a central part of the decision-making
process in any health care system.
Resource allocation
changing the structure of health care system in order to
achieve cost containment.
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
This makes it challenging to meet the medical needs of all
o increased life expectancy and limited health budgets
o continuous physical shortages of resources like donor organs
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
- An attempt to answers to concerns about high cost and complaints about
the quality of care are explained by the conditions under which
administrative and care decisions are made on a day-to-day basis.
changing the structure of health care system in order to
achieve cost containment.(Allocation of Scarce Health Resources)
This makes it challenging to meet the medical needs of all
o increased life expectancy and limited health budgets
o continuous physical shortages of resources like donor organs
▪ Resources have always been finite, thus the ethical issues raised
▪relate to ethical issues of individual rights and community benefits.
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
▪ Resources have always been finite, thus the ethical issues raised
▪relate to ethical issues of individual rights and community benefits.
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources:
issues being faced
▪Increased spending on health care
▪ Health care administrators gear towards profitability
▪Evaluation for the fairness of allocation for scarce medical
resources
An issue of Allocation of Scarce Health Resources:
* Health status have not always improved
* Quality of care issues
▪Increased spending on health care
An issue of Allocation of Scarce Health Resources:
When resources are limited (financial, technical and knowledge
resources) equitable and appropriate distribution is necessary.
Health care administrators gear towards profitability
An issue of Allocation of Scarce Health Resources:
On how people (general practitioners, medical students and
other health professionals) prioritize these resources
▪Evaluation for the fairness of allocation for scarce medical
resources
Allocation of Scarce Health Resources: principles
relevant for decision-making
▪ AUTONOMY
▪ BENEFICENCE
▪ Justice
A principle relevant for decision-making defined as consideration for privacy, individual liberty, and
freedom of choice is usually focused on the individual. For
managers, and in public health, the right of privacy, and freedom
are recognized as long as they do not result in harm to others
▪ AUTONOMY
A principle relevant for decision-making defined as the overall goal of policy and practice. Usually
interpreted broadly in light of societal, population, or
organizational needs. This is profoundly different than the usual
concerns of providers who focus on the more narrow term of
rights of the individual
BENEFICENCE
A principle relevant for decision-making defined as equity in benefits is the core of public health. concern is focused on equity among defined social groups.
- ideally requires health care organizations and health plans to provide to
individual recipients the care and services that each is due.
Justice
Define Autonomy as a principle relevant for decision making
consideration for privacy, individual liberty, and
freedom of choice is usually focused on the individual. For
managers, and in public health, the right of privacy, and freedom
are recognized as long as they do not result in harm to others
Define Beneficence as a principle relevant for decision making
is the overall goal of policy and practice. Usually
interpreted broadly in light of societal, population, or
organizational needs. This is profoundly different than the usual
concerns of providers who focus on the more narrow term of
rights of the individual.
Define Justice as a principle relevant for decision making
equity in benefits is the core of public health. concern is focused
on equity among defined social groups.
- ideally requires health care organizations and health plans to provide to
individual recipients the care and services that each is due.
▪information identifiable to any person, including, but not
limited to, information that relates to a person’s name, health,
finances, education, business, use or receipt of governmental
services or other activities, addresses, telephone numbers,
social security numbers, driver license numbers, other
identifying numbers, and any financial identifiers.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Define Personal information
▪information identifiable to any person, including, but not
limited to, information that relates to a person’s name, health,
finances, education, business, use or receipt of governmental
services or other activities, addresses, telephone numbers,
social security numbers, driver license numbers, other
identifying numbers, and any financial identifiers.
What is PERSONAL INFORMATION management?
▪ Refers to both the practice and the study of the activities a
person performs in order to acquire or create, store,
organize, maintain, retrieve, use, and distribute the
information needed to complete tasks and fulfill various roles
and responsibilities.
▪ Refers to both the practice and the study of the activities a
person performs in order to acquire or create, store,
organize, maintain, retrieve, use, and distribute the
information needed to complete tasks and fulfill various roles
and responsibilities.
PERSONAL INFORMATION management
As technology has developed, it has greatly increased the
potential for reliability, speed, efficiency, and usability of
medical records. However, this also increased the ability for
information to be misused, sold, and accessed without an
individual’s consent.
PERSONAL INFORMATION management issues
Define PERSONAL INFORMATION management issues
▪As technology has developed, it has greatly increased the
potential for reliability, speed, efficiency, and usability of
medical records. However, this also increased the ability for
information to be misused, sold, and accessed without an
individual’s consent.
Principles related to PERSONAL INFORMATION
▪Stated in the nurses’ code of ethics.
* Autonomy includes the patient’s right to maintain control over
his life; this extends to the right to maintain control over personal
information (the right to privacy & confidentiality)
* Fidelity refers to one’s faithfulness to agreements that one has
accepted
includes the patient’s right to maintain control over
his life; this extends to the right to maintain control over personal
information (the right to privacy & confidentiality
Autonomy
refers to one’s faithfulness to agreements that one has
accepted
Fidelity
- the capacity to observe and make sense or meaning is central to
one’s ability to make ethical choices and to take moral action
MORAL DISCERNMENT
Define Moral Discernment
- the capacity to observe and make sense or meaning is central to
one’s ability to make ethical choices and to take moral action
how are Principles necessary for moral discernment
- Helps in interpreting important aspects of moral situations
- Points towards fulfilling ones duties (like keep secrets, tell the
truth)
Principle of moral discernment
▪ MORAL DISCERNMENT
▪Principles are necessary for moral discernment
▪Principles are absolute and do not allow any legitimate
exceptions, the only morally good act is to obey and refrain
the forbidden action.
Using Principles for moral discernment
▪ There are other principles that are generally applicable, but
not always so.
o Principle of autonomy (confidentiality) but may be breeched
(nonmaleficence) due to the demands of justice
Using Principles for moral discernment
The proper use of limited principles requires an openness to the spirit as a source of empowerment
to distinguish subtle differences among otherwise
similar circumstances.
The proper use of limited principles requires an openness to the spirit as a source of empowerment
to distinguish subtle differences among otherwise
similar circumstances.
Using Principles for moral discernment
The proper use of limited principles requires an _______ to the spirit as a source of empowerment
to distinguish ______ among otherwise
__________.
openness; subtle differences; similar circumstances
- If we tell the ______, we may not be saving someone from being
______; or if we save someone from _______, then we do not tell
______.
truth; harmed; harm; the truth
Using Principles for decision-making
▪Using principles to help in decision-making & avoiding errors and
counter the pull of subjectivism & relying on emotions alone.
▪ Principles are not the center of moral discernment
* Principles need to be interpreted and the situations to which
they must be applied.
o One sense of values and virtues affect the way one interpret
what is going on
* Influence what will be judged to be the right thing to do.
Principles are not the center of moral discernment. true or false?
Korique
- Principles need to be ______ and the ________ to which
they must be applied.
interpreted; situations