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TRUE NURSING BLOG

GETTING STARTED

Before we get going here, consider lifetime disease.  Think diabetes.  Malaria.  Broken back.  Bone and muscle degeneration.  Alzheimer’s.  Mental dysfunction.  No cure, no resolution.  Care required, forever.  At least on some basic level, required forever.

Governmental health services vary somewhat in their reaction to the challenges of perpetual care.  But, on most of these just listed – and lots of others – they have accepted that some regular services will be needed until death steps in.

HIV is on the list, has been for decades now.  Recently, a resurgence of opioids is back on it. While healthcare for those afflicted with HIV has moved this from a certain killer to a permanent disease, it remains what it was in the first place: a virus that wants to kill everyone it contacts.  Until that magic day when a real cure is discovered, healthcare services must be prepared to provide constant services to those afflicted. Strongly addictive, easily fatal opioid types such as fentanyl, may well end up needing very long support conditions as well.

Are visiting health care nurses doing enough? Can we do more? Better? Different approach?

Let us know what you think would work, what needs to stop, where we need to pay more attention. Send your ideas to here. We will respond, pass on ideas that we feel advance the conversation.