Blog 13: Answer One

Answer One

The most effective way to treat an HIV+ patient in drug rehab is by providing HIV counseling and testing services to patients, their partners, and their family.

Once a patient is informed that he/she has contracted HIV, it is very important to talk about it with those who the patient may have spread the disease to. Testing should be made available to those who may have contracted the disease. It is also very important to discuss ways that transmission can be prevented with the patient. 

Almost every single piece of research I have collected thus far has introduced this idea when talking about ways to rehabilitate HIV+ patients in drug treatment centers. One website that has been extremely beneficial throughout has been TheBody.com.  

Blog 12: Service Learning

I am volunteering at Straight Talk, Inc. 

My contact is the administrator, Shelly Lummus. She can be reached at 714.828.2000, Ext 111 (She does not work Friday). 

So far, the main things I have been doing include various office activities that allow me to see the other side of running the treatment center (filing, organization, etc.) and errands for the office. It is very difficult for this small staff to run this non-profit, and I am grateful that they allow me to shadow them, so I do whatever I can to help them out. Other things I have done are attending a "graduation" ceremony for one of the rehab patients, and sitting in on a meeting with the administrators involved in HIV treatment centers in Orange County regarding housing for the clients. I have worked about 50 hours so far at Straight Talk for service learning. 

ESLRs

Effective Communicator
1. I am trying to learn how to communicate effectively with people I don't know. I tend to be very shy when meeting new people and I can already see the difference the senior project is making on that.
2. Talking with the people at the rehabilitation centers and and my service learning center has almost forced me to be confident in what I say, especially when meeting new people. Most of the clients at the treatment centers are usually not very accepting of new people, so I need to show them that I am someone worth getting to know.
3. I am hoping that this makes me a better presenter at school. I am usually not very intimidated by my peers, but my speech doesn't always come off as confident. I am hoping that my senior project enables me to change that.


Effective Learner
1. I am hoping to find a different way to collect research - other than google. I feel as though I don't get very "respectable" research with the sources I use now.
2. I am hoping to get more research from my service learning center. They have a lot of data that I have been told I was allowed to sort through.
3. A lot of this research will aid me in my senior project. Hopefully, I will start getting better research like that so I don't have to rely on search engines.

Blog 11: Third Interview Questions

1. What do you think is the most effective way to treat an HIV+ patient in drug rehab?
2. Do you think that HIV+ patients require specific care that other patients may not need? Why?
3. Do you think that HIV+ patients should be housed separately from those that are not HIV+? Why?
4. Do you think that HIV+ patients may think their "special attention" is not in their best interest? Why?
5. How is the way we treat HIV+ patients in drug rehab different today than it has been in the past? Why do you think this has changed?
6. What are some risks that occur when caring for an HIV+ drug patient? 
7. Other than the disease itself, are there any notable differences between HIV+ patients in the program when compared to those without the disease?
8. Roughly how much more money does it cost to put an HIV+ patient through rehab compared to those without HIV?
9. Do patients without HIV show any resentment towards those with HIV? What about the other way around?
10. Roughly how many HIV+ patients does your center house versus those without HIV?