AIDS Case Study Essay

In contrast if the patient still insists on not telling the partner on their situation, even though I am going to still make the report but I will also try to make efforts to educate the client to notify the partners. There would be ways to strategies to encourage and ensure the patient to willingly notify their partner. Part of my strategy would be to; i) couple counselling, even if there is some reluctance to continue., ii) educating them on the benefits of disclosure, iii) seeking consent from the patients to directly inform their partners in the patients' presence in scenarios where patients lacked the courage to do so personally, and iv) I would try to contact the people involved in this situation that they are in the possibility of exposure to HIV without releasing the identity of my client (Njozing et al.2011)

The plaintiff in Ard v. East Jefferson General Hospital, stated on 20 May, she had rang the nurses station to inform the nursing staff that her husband was experiencing symptoms of nausea, pain, and shortness of breathe. After ringing the call button for several times her spouse received his medication. Mrs. Ard noticed that her husband continued to have difficulty breathing and ringing from side to side, the patient spouse rang the nursing station for approximately an hour and twenty-five minutes until the defendant (Ms. Florscheim) enter the room and initiated a code blue, which Mr. Ard didn’t recover. The expert witness testified that the defendant failed to provide the standard of care concerning the decease and should have read the physician’s progress notes stating patient is high risk upon assessment and observation. The defendant testified she checked on the patient but no documentation was noted. The defendant expert witness disagrees with breech of duty, which upon cross-examination the expert witness agrees with the breech of duty. The district judge, upon judgment, the defendant failed to provide the standard of care (Pozgar, 2012, p. 215-216) and award the plaintiff for damages from $50,000 to $150,000 (Pozgar, 2012, p. 242).

Husband and wife, Gary and Renna Pehle were infected with HIV at the time they applied for life insurance with Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company. The couple did not know they were infected with HIV at the time. The insurance company ran blood tests from the Pehles. The Pehles then signed a contract form which was given to them by a Farm Bureau agent. A nurse from Farm Bureau watched as the Pehles signed the contract. Blood samples were sent to a third-party laboratory called LabOne. Farm Bureau then sent a notice to the Pehles rejecting them from their life insurance policy, which advised the couple that if they wished to have their application reviewed to contact their physician. The Pehles did not take any action in doing so. Two years past and Renna Pehle is confirmed to have AIDS. The Pehles then sues Farm Bureau, LabOne, and LabOne’s medical director Dr. J. Alexander Lowden for negligence, for failing to tell them they were HIV-positive.

A. What are the logical steps that the nurse should take to clarify the legal scope of nursing practice in this case?

Andrew Beckett is an established lawyer working at the largest law firm in Philadelphia. His employers are, at first, satisfied with his performance and promote him. At the time of this promotion Beckett has come in contact with the AIDS virus which has a high mortality rate. Beckett noticed the lesions that had formed on his skin, but chose to ignore them. One of his coworkers had noticed and suspected the possibility of Beckett having AIDS but said nothing. Beckett proceeds to take several days off to find a way to hide the lesions and work on files. All is well in Beckett’s work life until a mistake is made and a paper file goes missing with no digital copy, but is found just in time for court submission. His employers

Human Immunodeficiency Virus is HIV that develops into AIDS, which is Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This virus starts to break down white blood cells, as a result the immune system starts to deteriorate and our greatest shield cannot fight any longer (Mayo Clinic, 2016). The CDC (2015) states, that over 1.2 million people live with HIV in the United States and most who are infected are oblivious of their disease. Healthy people 2020 has declared HIV a public health crisis in the United States, and continues to sweep the nation with more than 500,000 new cases each year (HealthyPeople2020,2016).

Lori is going over Mr. Baker’s preoperative checklist. The informed consent form has been signed by Mr. Baker. Lori knows that it is the responsibility of the _____ to tell the patient about the surgery, including risks, benefits, expected outcomes, and alternatives.

Communication with patients will require effectiveness and compassion. In some cases of underserved and rural areas, as is the case of the recent HIV outbreak, education will be necessary. Educational communication will include diagnoses, causes, and treatment options. It will be imperative to provide this education in a manner which is forthright and caring, all while connecting with the patients on a personal level. This will enhance the provider-patient trust and will increase the likelihood of follow-up care and actions.

It can be concluded from the information given that the man that has come to visit the patients Jill George and Ashley Cole has some form of a relationship with both of the patients. The man also has brought two bouquets of flowers, so it can be inferred he cares enough about each of the patients to bring them a gift. It seems coincidental that the both the patients have a significant other with the same name and this might bring about the suspicion that the gentleman bringing in the flowers could be a two-timing spouse. However, there is not enough information at the moment to know who the patient’s visitor is and how he is related to each of them.

There are three main HIV reporting systems which physician are required to use in making a report, name based reporting, code based reporting and name to code reporting. However, physicians and laboratories in the United States are required to report to local and health departments using the reporting system, although the requirements differ among states. As a matter of fact, reporting and notification helps in informing individuals about the possible risk of being HIV positive, receive HIV counseling and testing, and most importantly help them get appropriate medical care. Although individuals may be discouraged from undergoing testing if they know someone will notify their contacts. Similarly, some individuals threaten to discontinue the course of treatments if their status is revealed to

HIV and AIDS have affected millions of people throughout the world. Since 1981, there have been 25 million deaths due to AIDS involving men, women, and children. Presently there are 40 million people living with HIV and AIDS around the world and two million die each year from AIDS related illnesses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that one-third of the one million Americans living with HIV are not aware that they have it. The earliest known case of HIV was in 1959. It was discovered in a blood sample from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Looking further into the genetics of this blood sample researchers suggested that it had originated from a virus going back to the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. In 1999,

As a result I use persuasion and a plea to the conscience of the husband to understand why it would be morally wrong to keep this information away from the wife. If the client still insist on not disclosing this information, then I need to decide either to keep my own part of the patients’ bill of rights on doing what is right. I don’t give up rather use all necessary means of saving the other members of the family until we get them to disclose to their wives so we can manage them

In medicine one of the things every patient is entitled to, no matter what, is their privacy. Since ancient times the privacy between a doctor and a patient has been somewhat of sacred thing. The patient has the right to release their health information to whomever they please. Even for doctors to access a patient’s medical history there has to be consent from the patient. In Mair’s article she reports about the case PD v Harvey in which PD upon asking for her future husband’s (FH) HIV test results was denied access because of lack of consent from FH. FH because of his right to confidentiality, despite having the disease, was able to lie and forge a pathology report which reported his HIV status as negative and in turn PD was lead to believe that FH actually received a negative result. If PD had been allowed the right to view the positive result or maybe even if the doctors would have taken into consideration her well-being PD could have avoided being infected (2009). Before testing a patient for HIV/AIDS a doctor should consult the patient in this consultation the patient should be educated about the disease, the testing process, and actions to be taken upon a positive result, including disclosure to sexual

HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. A member of a group of viruses called retroviruses, HIV infects human cells and uses the energy and nutrients provided by those cells to grow and reproduce. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a disease in which the body's immune system breaks down and is unable to fight off certain infections, known as "opportunistic infections," and other illnesses that take advantage of a weakened immune system. When a person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiplies primarily in the white blood cells. These are the immune cells that normally protect us from disease.

Joanna is an experienced nurse taking care of Mrs. Kelly, who was Joanna’s patient many times in the past for her primary problem which is COPD. This time Mrs. Kelly was admitted with complaints of abdominal pain what was different from her primary diagnoses. Her vital signs were with normal limits and no significant changes from privies results, but for the nurse she looks sick, and Joanna know that something is wrong. She calls the resident doctor, but he tell her to watches and calls back with series changes. Joanna multiple attempts to report that something needs to be done to evaluate the cause of Mrs. Kelly pain was ask to calm down. However nobody took patient symptoms series and the next day patient died.