Verpleegsorgbehoeftes van HIV positiewe pasiënte

English: HIV infection causes AIDS, a communicable, stigmatised and terminal disease. It leads to the progressive deterioration of the immune system that ends in death. HIV infection affects the total human being. Never in history were health care workers so drastically challenged to look beyond an illness and to take on a holistic approach to health, as in the case with AIDS. The research was done in two phases. The first phase was the reconnaissance and description of HIV positive patients' nursing care needs as well as nurses' view thereof. The selection of nurses and patients were done by purposiveness selection. The researcher has established the nursing care needs of the HIV positive patient in the study by in-depth interviews. Nurses' views of the nursing care were also obtained through in-depth interviews. Interviews were recorded on tape and were transcribed afterwards. Data analysis was done according to Giorgi's model. After data analysis had been done, the results were controlled and verifted with the literature. The abovementioned processes were completed according to the philosophic foundation of the researcher, namely the Christian anthropology. Several needs and problems of the HIV positive patients with regard to their nursing care were identified. Nurses also experienced problems in the delivery of their nursing care. The primary problems that nurses experienced were, a lack of information about HIV and AIDS as well as limited time to deliver quality nursing care. Phase two: From the gathered information from HIV positive patients, nurses and literature, a nursing care model was compile to provide in the needs of the HIV positive patients. The model makes provision for application in any stage of AIDS. The family, community, resources and the multi-disciplinary team fugerate in this model. The nurse is the key role player in the model. The model is framed by the 15 aspects of Dooyeweerd and therefore shows that the HIV positive patient is nursed according to the holistic approach. The description and reconnaissance of the concepts applicable to the model were done according to the theory generated by Marriiler-Tomey,(1989:5), Woods and Catenzaro (1988:20), Walker and Avant (1988: 10) and Kim (1983: 131). This middle range theoretical model was compiled to ease the task of the nurse in practice and also to deliver quality nursing care to HIV positive patients.