Home administration of nutritional & medical therapies for persons with AIDS.
With the increasing numbers of AIDS patients in home care settings, professional caregivers will be required to provide home infusion and to help informal caregivers in enteral and total parenteral nutrition. The first thing all caregivers--both professional and informal--need to understand is how the infusion devices work and what pointers will help keep the patients healthy.
Hurtado Student Health Center, Rutgers University.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000451:nursing*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000295:instrumentation; D018718:Home Infusion Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total / Q000295:instrumentation; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D014481:United States