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AIDS in Norway: a post hoc evaluation of an AIDS home care project
Author(s) -
Bunch Eli Haugen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1998.00142.x
Subject(s) - medicine , agency (philosophy) , nursing , laundry , health care , family medicine , sociology , economic growth , political science , social science , law , economics
• Norway's National Health Care system guarantees all citizens a right to health care within a decentralized system based on values like solidarity and equality. • Seventy‐five per cent of people with HIV/AIDS live and are treated in Oslo, the capital. Local home care agencies have minimal, if any experience working with AIDS patients residing in the community. • Therefore a home care team with two nurses employed by the hospital was established as a 2‐year trial project to establish a home care system for AIDS patients. • In March 1993 a post hoc evaluation of the project for AIDS patients was completed, based on descriptive data. • Results seem to indicate that a prerequisite for patients to live at home is someone to do chores like cleaning, laundry and shopping. • The home care nurses functioned as vital links between the hospital, the outpatient clinic and the local home agency.