Vid mötet och i omvårdnaden av patienter med HIV/Aids

: Sjuksköterskor och sjuksköterskestudenters upplevelser och attityder

Abstract

Background: Nursing students and nurses meets patients newly informed about HIV/Aids. These patients often indicate crisis and anxiety. The meetings require flexibility, empathy and communication skills. Nursing care includes the patients physical, psychological, cultural, spiritual and social needs. With these needs in mind the aim is providing best possible quality of life. Purpose: The purpose was to describe the different experiences and attitudes in the meeting and care of HIV/Aids patients. Method: Literature based on 12 qualitative and quantitative articles using The Friberg model. The use of Katie Eriksson's nursing theory relates to the result discussion. Results: Nursing students and nurses have positive and negative attitudes and different experience of empathy, compassion, fear, discomfort and contempt. While main experience of the nurses was fear with a positive attitude the nursing students were fear with a negative attitude. Discussion of the result: Knowledge is what is missing and strongly needs for loose fear and negative attitudes. Conclusion: The conclusion illustrates that knowledge is the key to a good meeting and well care for patients with HIV/Aids. The negative attitudes and experiences can be prevented/ reduced by knowledge. The conclusion also shows that culture and pre-understanding plays a role in attitudes.