DONE: Immune Part 2 Flashcards
(87 cards)
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Poor nutrition Stress: Humidity Poor sanitation Crowded living conditions Pollution Dust Medications that can alter the immune system What do these conditions describe?
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A: reasons for infection
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Break the chain of infection, we need an ____ ____ that has the ability to cause an infection, it needs to have the strength and the ability to ___; a ____ is just a place where it can live until it has a ______ and then a means of ______
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A: infectious agent Spread Reservoir portal of exit transmission
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How do you break the chain of infection?
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A: Medical asepsis
Other types of Standard precautions
Body substance isolation
Protective isolation
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What are the Common Allergens?
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A: Pollen
Mold
Pet dander
Dust and dust mites
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What should you educate the patient on regarding pollen?
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A: Shower or bathe before bedtime –especially hair; if they go outside and it’s a high pollen count day then pollen will get into their hair; if they don’t shower or bathe before bedtime, they go to bed the pollen gets into their pillow so it becomes a vicious circle
Stay inside on dry, windy days because there is so much pollen circulating around
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Where are the areas for mold growth that the patient would need to be educated on?
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A: With mold we want to remove houseplants
Frequently clean:
Shower curtains
Bathroom windows
Damp walls
Indoor trash cans
All of these places are a really good environment for mold to grow
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The best solution for ____ is not to have any pets at all, keep them ___ and keep them out of your ___, the ____ that collects in your house and is impossible to get rid of
A: pet dander
Outside
Bed
dander
_______ collects in house dust and takes 4 or more weeks to die down
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A: Dander
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Allergen resistant bedding
Air filter
Bathe pets often
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A: reduce pet dander
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Remove: drapes, feather pillows, upholstered furniture, non-washable comforters, and soft toys
might have to replace carpet with tile and wood
Mop & vacuum often (use HEPA filter) to clean out the small particles
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A: reduce dust/dust mite (feces) allergies
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Dust mites can just get in carpeting/drapes and it’s actually the ____ of the dust mites that people are allergic to
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A: feces
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Block H1 receptors preventing the histamine response, these are not the H2 blockers those are for GI effects
What medication treats these allergens?
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A: Antihistamines:
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___________ work by causing vasoconstriction in the capillaries of the nasal membrane that your blood vessels in your nose swell up as that is part of their vascular response
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A: Decongestants
Note: decreasing the size or constricting those vessels it causes shrinkage in the mucous membrane and decrease fluid secretion
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_____ ______ is used inhalation wise and is prophylactic with ppl with bronchiole asthma, is taken daily and it helps to inhibit the release of histamine and prevent an exacerbation
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A: Cromolyn sodium
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_____ _____ sprays helps to decrease nasal swelling
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A: Nasal steroid
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It’s very rare but there are some mast cell stabilizer _______; one is called Pataday
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A: Eye drops: Note (FYI) and is very expensive but it does exist
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Name the types of autoimmune disorders?
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A: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus from now on this will be called Lupus or SLE
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs interferes with prostaglandin, they decrease inflammation and pain; aspirin is one that is commonly used for ______
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A: RA treatment
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Prednisone which is a steroid and anti-inflammatory, it’s an adrenal hormone, an immunosuppressant and it also decreases the inflammatory response and is used for?
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A: RA treatment
Note: Side effects for Prednisone are nausea, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, depression, pancreatitis; steroids are not to be taken lightly and remember that you never ever suddenly stop a corticosteroid
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Disease modifying agents work by altering the body’s response to whatever is going on and is commonly used for?
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A: RA treatment
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Methotrexate is a medication that is used for different things depending on the dosage of the drug; it is given as a antineoplastic for what autoimmune disease process?
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A: given for rheumatoid arthritis, it does have an immunosuppressant effect it is used for SEVERE rheumatoid arthritis that is unresponsive to other treatments
Note: what you need to know that just by the dose, by looking at the dosage, look into your resources, when used as an antineoplastic it is at a higher dose and is given more often; side effects: aplastic anemia which can be fatal, pulmonary fibrosis and liver damage
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_____ is for SEVERE cases of rheumatoid arthritis also and it has side effects of aplastic anemia
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A: Hydroxychloroquine
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____ inhibits inflammation and is it also modifies the immune response
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A: Gold
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____ which is a fairly common one that slows the progression of rheumatoid arthritis by binding to tumor necrosis factor so it helps to decrease inflammation and slows the progression of the disease, but side effects are infections, leukemia, it alters the immune system so rheumatoid arthritis treatment can alter the immune system so we have to be careful with that
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A: Etanercept
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Pain, chronic, debilitating pain Decreased Mobility Risk for injury Self-care deficit: dressing/grooming Ineffective coping Also body image and huge risk for infection
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A: nursing diagnosis for RA
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Relieve pain
Inhibit inflammation
Preserve joint function
Prevent deformity and there you will see a swan neck deformity in that index finger…
A: RA treatment goals
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Assessment
Joint movement
Deformities: note which joints are affected
Pain assessment;
Functional status including ADL’s, work, recreation, what are they able to do, what do they wish they could do,
Management of therapeutic regimen and are they following it
A: RA nursing interventions
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Education is really key as it is with so many different things; you want to teach them things to manage pain and ______ things because with chronic pain we can’t just give them more and more and say well this is going to be gone in a couple of days, this is something that they are going to be living with for the rest of their lives so things like: _____ and _____, ______, taking _____ as ordered and on time, warm or hot shower in the morning or evening can help to relieve some of the pain
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A: non-pharmacologic
Meditation
Biofeedback
Distraction
Medications
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With RA patients you will need to assist with ____ as necessary, if we have a joint that is going through a flare up or an exacerbation then that joint needs to ____, the other joints need to be kept ___; we want to Prevent flexion contractions so we do that by having the pt lay face down on the bed with their feet hanging off the mattress between the mattress and the floor board several times a day to keep their foot in the correct position because it needs to be for walking we might also have to use splints and gentle ROM; Keep patient warm that helps with the comfort
A: ADLs
Rest
Active
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RA patient’s ____ is going to be more vulnerable especially if they are on steroids; and you know that skin delicacy you have the same cells lining your GI tract as you do closing your skin so you have to be mindful of that too and watch for bleeding in the ____
A: skin
| GI tract
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Encourage independence as able; encourage them at home to have a firm mattress, straight back chairs that have arm rests that will make it easier for them to get up and down by themselves they might need some assistive devices to help with getting dressed, there are things that help with putting on socks and fastening buttons, there are shoelaces that are elastic that they just leave them in their shoes all the time and it turns a tie shoe into a slip on, Velcro is very nice also for shoes and for clothes fastening if they can’t manipulate buttons and zippers; they might have a problem with body image too as their disease progresses
A: RA intervention
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Space activities with rest periods so in the hospital or teaching when they are going home, to space themselves and with rheumatoid arthritis and a lot of these disease they feel better in the morning so they will wake up and get their warm shower, get dressed and that is the best time for them to be active so if they are scheduling appointments or if you are scheduling things for them in the hospital mornings are better because it just wears them out by the afternoon
A: RA intervention
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Assess need for home health care, do they have steps at home, do they need assistive devices, do they need grab bars in the showers to help prevent falls, those sorts of things and you can also ask for a home safety visit that is something that you can request
A: RA intervention
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Pain management, like I said this is chronic pain so we are not going to be as successful of getting rid of 100% of the pain the way we can with acute pain because this is something that they are going to have for the rest of their lives so we just have to keep upping the pain medication so teach them to use heat or cold, they can use warm packs or ice packs 15-20 mins at a time 3-4x a day and they need to be sure to take it off after that 15 mins, teach them about their medications and some of those adjunctive methods that we talked about earlier, there is also a tens unit which gives an electrical stimulation to an area to interrupt the pain pathways, biofeedback, meditation, and acupuncture
A: RA intervention
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______ is a removing of the inflamed membrane early in the disease process the membrane that lines the capsule of the joint
A: Synovectomy: surgical treatment of RA
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________, hip is a very common replacement, but they can replace other joints also
A: Joint replacement: surgical treatment of RA
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______ is the cutting of the bone to realign the joint and shift the pressure points and that can relieve pressure
A: Osteotomy: surgical treatment of RA
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To ______ the last part of the nursing process, you are going to reassess your pts pain, have the methods that you tried worked, are they taking their medications correctly, do they have the assistive devices that they need, do they need any more education, physical therapy, do they wear the splints as directed, are you doing the passive ROM or are they doing active ROM to keep the non-affected joints going, are they maintaining independence with ADLs, and have they had any concerns addressed that they might have brought up
A: evaluate
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Choline magnesium trisalicylate helps to decrease inflammation
NSAIDs
Hydroxychloroquine
Corticosteroids
A: medications for Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus (SLE)/lupus
Note: I WILL PROBABLY NOT ASK YOU ABOUT THE ABOVE MEDICATIONS
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Remember that the pt with ____ is often times a young person, young woman that has been through a lot of doctors, and a lot of trauma to get to where they are with finally having a medical dx so there are a lot of psychological things going on
A: lupus
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Altered comfort
Pain – acute and chronic-please if you don’t remember the difference between the 2 PLEASE review it
Powerlessness
Risk for impaired skin integrity and oral mucosal membrane integrity
Fatigue
A: Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus (SLE)/lupus nursing diagnosis
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Encourage maintenance of activity when they are in remission
Pace activities again alternate periods of activity with periods of rest
Hot packs for joint pain/stiffness
Raynaud’s: warmth and protect from injury and remember that this is intermittent attacks of pallor and cyanosis of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers; it’s because of poor circulation
Support self-image
Adequate rest
Avoid infectious people because they are immunocompromised
A: Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus (SLE)/lupus implementations
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_____ has gone from being pretty much a death sentence to a chronic disease that is manageable and that is due in large part to the medications that have been developed
A: HIV/AIDS
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Night sweats and these are common with a lot of other diseases too so you have to look at the whole picture
Lymphadenopathy-inflamed or swollen lymph nodes
Fever
Weight loss
Fatigue
Rash
GI: N/V, diarrhea, anorexia
A: Assessment for HIV/AIDS
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Remember that we do screening to look for antibodies and a rapid test that takes about 20 mins if that’s positive than we confirm it with a Western Blot; please do not forget the importance of the ______ if it is less than 200 mL that’s a hallmark conversion to AIDs healthy should be over 800mL
A: CD4 count
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Headache
Lightheadedness
memory loss, trouble finding words, inability to concentrate, mood swings, there is an AIDs dementia (once of the complications of AIDs) gait disturbances so there is something that is going on in the brain
Stiff neck and pain
Numbness, burning, tingling in extremities
History of TB, herpes, hepatitis B, fungal infections, STIs,
A: Assessment/symptoms for HIV/AIDS
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New cough
Shortness of breath or DOE (dyspnea on excursion)
Increase in fatigue or malaise (general feeling of not feeling good)
Night sweats that are common with a lot of different problems
Headache or stiff neck
Visual changes
New onset diarrhea
Sudden weight loss
Skin lesions
Pain
A: reasons for HIV/AIDS pt to visit their health care provider/pt education
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Fever in someone that is immune compromised is a REALLY bad sign because someone who is severely ______ doesn’t usually have the immune system to create a fever which is a response to an invasion of an infectious agent so if they do have a ____ they could be close to being septic they could be almost overwhelmed by the infection so take a fever in an immunocompromised pt and those are all the pts that we have talked about today a pt with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and HIV take that VERY _____ and not just the pts that we have talked about today, any pts that are immunocompromised, your cancer pts would fall under that too
A: immunocompromised
Fever
Seriously
Note: reasons for HIV/AIDS pt to visit their health care provider/pt education
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Is the new medication regimens; they are not so new anymore but this is the development that has made it possible for HIV to become a manageable condition rather than a death sentence; so _________- Consists of meds that belong to 6 different classifications and I am going to show you those classifications
A: HAART therapy
Note: I DON’T EXPECT YOU TO MEMORIZE THEM, but I think it will be good that if you are familiar with the terms so if you hear them somewhere you will know what ppl are talking about, but it is not something that I plan on testing you on
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Prevents HIV replication at six different points and the usual treatment Standard: minimum of 3 different drugs from two different categories
A: HAART: Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy HIV/AIDS TX
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Preventing the HIV replication is really, really important because what that does is decrease the viral load and viral load refers to the amt of virus that is present in the pts blood stream; by decreasing the viral load remember the virus is attacking the T cells it is getting rid of CD4 so by doing that we are impacting our CD4 remember CD4 is that substance that is on the T cell and the higher the CD4 count the more intact the immune system is; so a lower CD4 count means a higher risk for infection
A: HAART: Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy HIV/AIDS TX
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the Dept of Health and Human Services recommends that ______ be implemented when the CD4 count is less than 350 or the viral load is over 100,000 per mL or if the CD4 count is falling rapidly so you have someone who has had a steady decline in their CD4 and now it’s less than 350 or they have a viral load over 100,000 or their CD4 count is dropping all of a sudden any of those 3 reasons would be a reason for someone to go on _______; some practitioners are even starting their pts on ______ when their CD4 count is between 350-500 so recent research is saying that it might be easier to maintain a higher CD4 count if they start this _______ sooner so there’s continuous research ongoing
A: HAART therapy
Note: this answer is for all blanks
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_______ – first drugs used and available
A: Nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI)
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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____________________ inhibit the ability of the virus to transcribe the RNA into DNA; these are the ones that made it possible to manage HIV
A: Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI)
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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__________ – second class of drugs used have been around for a very long time and first drugs used and available
A: Protease Inhibitors (PI)
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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______ – only one: enfuvirtide (Fuzeon) an injectable
A: Entry/fusion inhibitor
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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__________ prevents the HIV from getting into the cells and using that material to reproduce itself
A: Entry inhibitor/CCR5 antagonist
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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_______ – newest class of treatment, blocks enzymes that helps the virus gain access to the DNA of the host and the way they developed this was by studying people who can’t be infected by HIV; there is one man in particular who is a gay sexually active and with risky behaviors and they put his blood in a test tube with the virus and the virus can’t do anything to it; he can’t be infected with HIV so his blood has been very useful in the research to come up with ways to treating HIV
A: Integrase inhibitor
Note: HIV/AIDS TX: Like I said, I don’t expect you to memorize this
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I have said a couple of times that HIV is now manageable but it still isn’t fun, the meds are expensive, they have side effects, some of the medications have to be taken every 4 hours, and that is round the clock so they must set an alarm a couple of times to go off during the night, and some of the side effects are really unpleasant
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Lactic acidosis is secondary to lack of oxygen to skeletal muscles with some NRTIs, N/V abdominal pain
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Hyperlipidemia: some PI and some NNRTIs
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Insulin resistance: PI; if there is a problem with diabetes it would be made worse
Lipodystrophy: PI, NRTI
Hepatotoxicity: all classes
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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________________ this one is important for you to know because it may be important for you to teach a pt at some point; happens soon after a pt starts on HAART therapy; think about it, we have someone who is immunocompromised, they have come in because they have had some symptoms or maybe they are just getting routine checks so we give them these meds to help boost their immune system because that’s the goal right? And their ______ starts to recover, that’s great, but if they had an infection that we didn’t know about because their immune system was so compromised that you wouldn’t react to that all of a sudden we give them these medications they get sick, their immune system starts to recover and they get ___, they get upset that the meds made them sick, but what happens is that the meds made your immune system better so it can respond to this ____ that you have unfortunately it can be an overwhelming inflammatory response because there is a sudden increase in CD4 cells so that has to be managed when that happens
A: Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS)
immune system
sick
infection
Note: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Treatment fatigue they have to take a lot of medications, a lot of times during the day, it can be complicated, some meds need to be taken with food, some meds have to be taken on an empty stomach which can be very, very complicated and people get tired when they have tx regimens like that to follow
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDs
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All of the meds can be harmful to the liver
A: Complications of Treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Something that we also see with cancers is?
A: Wasting syndrome/cachexia
Note: or you will see in the chart that pt appears cachectic
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Defined as Unintentional loss >10% body weight so a person who weighs 150 lbs loses more than 15 lbs without meaning to
A: Wasting syndrome/cachexia
Note: or you will see in the chart that pt appears cachectic
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Weakness
Fever that lasts 30 days or more
Nutritional deficiencies
Diarrhea which is 2 loose stools a day for more than 30 days
A: Wasting syndrome/cachexia
Note: or you will see in the chart that pt appears cachectic
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This _______ is dx in the absence of any other illness that could be causing it; it’s really not known what causes it they do often complain of a weird taste in their mouth and that can be due to a deficiency of some minerals like zinc
A: Wasting syndrome/cachexia
Note: or you will see in the chart that pt appears cachectic
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Inadequate dietary intake because of that weird taste they have in their mouths
Malabsorption of nutrients if they are having diarrhea for over 30 days then they are probably not absorbing well either
Abnormalities in metabolism and energy expenditure something going on at the cellular level to affect metabolism
HIV – related infections
A: Multi-factoral causes of wasting syndrome/cachexia
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Appetite stimulants:
megestrol acetate (Megace) should only be given in a liquid form when used to stimulate appetite because it is also an antineoplastic for breast and endometrial cancers; don’t just assume that it’s being used to stimulate the appetite, if you see a lady taking it in pill form than it is being used as an antineoplastic & dronabinol (Marinol) these are also used to treat ppl with cancer, can be used for anyone that need their appetite stimulated
Anabolic agents these are the “bad” kind of steroids that can increase appetite
Cytokine inhibitors
Hormones: testosterone & growth hormones can maybe reverse metabolic abnormalities that are going on
Somatropin
Research ongoing and like I said earlier they could have a zinc deficiency
A: treatment for wasting syndrome/cachexia
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Metabolic encephalopathy something has happened to into the brain and cause difficulty with mental processes
Disabling cognitive impairment
Motor dysfunction
Speech problems
Behavioral changes
The above symptoms describe what process of AIDS?
A: AIDS Dementia
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People with AIDs are more susceptible to?
A: malignancies
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What are the major types of AIDs malignancies?
A: Cervical Cancer; everyone gets cervical cancer but people with AIDs have a higher incidence
Kaposi ’s sarcoma is normally benign but with HIV/AIDs it can be fatal
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma they also have a higher rate with this; this is associated with the Epstein Barr virus that most people get infected with by the time they are a young adult so again that is just lying there in your body waiting until your right for the plucking and then it attacks
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Date of HIV infection, risk factors, HIV test result, CD4 count (talks about the integrity and the strength of the immune system), and viral load talks about how much virus is present in the blood;
A: nursing assessment for HIV/AID’s patient
Note: you might think that is a no brainer, but a few months ago I was with some students at a hospital and there was a gentleman who was about late 20’s he came in saying that he might be HIV positive and he was in the hospital for a month or more but as time progressed, turns out he had an HIV test, 10-12 years ago, prior to his admission, that was positive and he figured it was going to be positive, he never followed up, he never went back for the confirmation or the Western Blot, he never had any tx, never went to any doctor, I think he never told anybody; he continued to be sexually active, risky behavior, , drugs and things like that, in total denial, had another HIV test in the hospital and it also came back positive and he accepted it and then he didn’t and he was a really challenging person to deal with, I’m sure that he had some mental health issues before he ever had HIV, so it’s important to get that information
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Current complaints did they come in with shortness of breath or an infection
A: nursing assessment for HIV/AID’s patient
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Patient’s knowledge base: etiology, s/sx, mode of transmission, disease progression, treatment regimen; this pt that I was just talking about, his knowledge was not terrible, he knew that he was infected, he knew pretty much how he got infected, but he was just in denial and so that is a lot harder to deal with than someone who just got knowledge deficit; do they know the cause, the s/sx
A: nursing assessment for HIV/AID’s patient
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Adherence to regimen or if they are already on one
Nutritional and general health assessment
Head to toe assessment as you would do with any patient
Labs: CD4 count and the viral load
A: nursing assessment for HIV/AID’s patient
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Fear
Risk of infection to them there are opportunistic infections because of their compromised immune system risk also for passing it on to other ppl but just to the pt
Imbalanced Nutrition: less than body requirements
A: nursing diagnoses for HIV/AID’s patient
Note: I’m hoping that there is not quite as big a social stigma attached to HIV/AIDs now like there used to be but still probably creates fear in a person who is newly dx with HIV, fear about the disease progression, tx effects, isolation, and dying
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Diarrhea
Disturbed thought processes that could be due to the virus getting into the brain and causing impaired cognition even dementia
Ineffective breathing pattern probably due to opportunistic infection
Ineffective therapeutic regimen because of the complicated regimen; medications that might have to be taken every 4 hours around the clock, tx plans, appts with the doctor, lack of social support, on top of that throw in some dementia, or any other psychiatric illness, it can just be really, really challenging; if they are not complying
A: nursing diagnoses for HIV/AID’s patient
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Prevent infection so hand washing is key
Promote comfort
Maximize health
Educate patient and family/SO on skin care
Maintain cleanliness because that will help to prevent infection
A: nursing implementation for HIV/AIDS patient
Note: Complex: multi-dimensional effects are physical, psychological and social
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prevent dehydration & electrolyte imbalance
Frequent oral care
Education prevention of transmission teach them to use universal precautions at home
Touch
social interaction
A: nursing implementation for HIV/AIDS patient
Complex: multi-dimensional effects are physical, psychological and social
Note: Emotional and spiritual support and you would think that a church family or some kind of spiritual support would be good but I have been amazed to find, not everybody, some ppl have been absolutely wonderful and beautiful with the way they treat ppl with HIV/AIDs but some of kind of accusatory and say that’s what you deserve because of your lifestyle so they just really have a hard road ahead of them
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Don’t smoke and we have seen smoking in every system that we have talked about so far
Eat a diet high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and low in saturated fat. Fiber helps to move stuff through your colon at a pace that allows anything carcinogenic in your colon get out of there quickly
Exercise regularly.
Maintain a healthy weight.
A: Enhancing the Immune System of HIV/AIDS patients
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Control your blood pressure.
If you drink alcohol, drink only in moderation. I know that there are some studies that show that alcohol can be beneficial
Get adequate sleep. We still don’t know why ppl need sleep but we know that we do and we know that ppl who can’t sleep will die for lack of it if it goes on for too long
Take steps to avoid infection, such as washing your hands frequently and cooking meats thoroughly. Avoid things that make you more susceptible to infection
Get regular medical screening tests for people in your age group and risk category.
A: Enhancing the Immune System of HIV/AIDS patients
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Anti-infectives (45) are FYI:
A: Antifungals
Amphotericin B- for severe systemic infections it is very closely supervised it is only given IV its nickname is amphro terrible because it has such terrible side effects it causes kidney toxicity, electrolyte imbalances, you really need to monitor kidney function with someone on this medication
Nystatin is one that we will see fairly often, it can be used orally to treat thrush in the mouth, it can be used topically in creams, it can be used in vaginal tablets, and just for fungal infections and sometimes when ppl are immunocompromised get fungal infections in their mouth because their normal bacteria in the mouth is kind of thrown out of whack; so you have this yeast in there all the time and it takes over so Nystatin works for that; be sure that you assess the mouth of any pt that immunocompromised
Ketoconazole another anti-fungal it can be given orally, it causes breakdown of fungal cell membranes
Antiprotozoal
Atovaquone is used for PCP or jiroveci pneumonia
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Acyclovir – Zovirax-decreased the severity and the length of the outbreak, it DOES NOT CURE IT; when somebody who has the herpes simplex virus the outbreaks can get less and less as time progresses and ppl will think that they are cured but they are not and it’s important for ppl to know that to help prevent them from spreading it to somebody else
A: Non-HIV Anti-virals
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Treats HSV 1
A: Non-HIV Anti-virals
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Ribavirin – Virazole
For RSV (children) given via inhalation and we will probably learn more about this when we go to Peds
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A: Non-HIV Anti-virals
