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Nursing care plans for people with HIV/AIDS: confusion or consensus?
Author(s) -
Holzemer William L,
Henry Suzanne Bakken
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01647.x
Subject(s) - clarity , nursing , confusion , medicine , identification (biology) , nursing care , medline , nursing outcomes classification , quality (philosophy) , team nursing , nursing research , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , botany , political science , psychoanalysis , law , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Examination of four standardized nursing care plans for people with AIDS (PWAs) from four agencies with extensive experience with caring for PWAs revealed that there is little agreement about the nursing care problems of PWAs Differences in language, conceptual clarity, and level of complexity related to problem identification have implications for nursing practice, quality assurance and research Without consensus about patient problems, it is impossible to communicate effectively about nursing care problems for PWAs Research is needed to validate patient problems that can serve as the basis for standards of care and provide guidance for nurses inexperienced in caring for PWAs