CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH HIV/AIDS AND NURSING CARE TO PROMOTE QUALITY OF LIFE

Abstract

Introduction: The role of the nurse to promote the quality of life of the patient occurs in the most varied diseases and pathologies, this work highlights the practice directed to the patient with HIV/AIDS, passing through the technical aspects until reaching the effective palliative treatment. Objective: Understand the process that leads the subject infected with HIV/AIDS to have quality of life based on the physical, psychosocial and emotional aspects of the care offered by the SUS with the realization of Fundamental Rights through the nurse. Material and Methods: This is an integrative literature review, the databases used are: NCBI/PubMed (National Center for BiotechnologyInformation), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Lirary Online), Academic Google and Lilacs - Bireme (Latin American Literature and the Caribbean in Health Sciences). To delimit the contents, inclusion criteria were used: articles available in full, in Portuguese and English, published from 2014 to 2021 with free access with thematic relevance, in the end, 10 articles were selected for analysis. Results and discussion: The consensus that quality of life exists based on the resourcefulness of a whole gear constituted by the realization of fundamental rights by the State towards people living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of treatments and medications that meet their needs to the point of enabling access to health, fulfilling the right linked to human dignity, emphasizing, above all, the care provided by nurses in this context of patients with HIV/AIDS. Final considerations: It is concluded that nurses should work with HIV/AIDS patients with technicality, respect, dignity, ethics, professionalism, treating patients on an equal footing and clarifying within their knowledge the main rights correlated to care in the system of health.