Background brief:
Arron is 39 years old, has been living with swollen lymph glands of the neck and throat along with sore muscle and joints for the last 10 months since returning from south-east Asia holiday. Lived with these symptoms as he believed it was due to a busy lifestyle and the stress of his job. He works full-time as sound engineer for a local recording studio located in Caboolture and in his spare time is president and social organiser of “LGBT Community of North Lakes”. Arron moved back into the family home to be with his younger sister Sharon, since their parents deceased 8 years earlier. They are very close. He has a strong social network of supportive friends. He enjoys his current life being single and dating, with no specific relationship identified as a close partner. Nursing Assignment Help
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Provision of Care:
Still in aspects of mild shock and disbelief Arron has been informed, on recent blood results for his annual GP health check. He has a positive with undetectable viral load result, of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Suspicion is that he may have contracted HIV on holidays as the virus symptoms are like his experienced lifestyle symptoms. Today, 4 days after the health diagnosis, he has left a pathology centre having undertaken the baseline biochemistry studies as part of first phase antiviral treatment.
As a support care nurse, you have been assigned to Arron to assist him with change requirements. He currently has not commenced ART medication reluctant to start and he does demonstrate poor health literacy surrounding his circumstance. You have some added concerns as the COVID-19 pandemic has infiltrated isolated pockets of the community population
Your focus will be a plan of care to support Arron on aspects of early self-management and associated infection management of prevention / risk.
Nursing diagnosis taken from Assessment of need:
- Limitation in health literacy surrounding aspects of self-management to current health diagnosis. Nursing Assignment Help
