Community Healthcare Nursing and Teenage Pregnancy Prevention

COMMUNITY
HEALTHCARE
NURSING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Overview of the teenage pregnancy and nurse role................................................................1
Provide education and counsel youth about the sexuality, reproduction, sexuality transmitted
disease, and contraception......................................................................................................2
Educate children and work with them before they become sexually active...........................3
Develop, implement, and evaluate the community based teenage pregnancy prevention
program...................................................................................................................................4
Educate and provide knowledge about the right time for pregnancy.....................................5
Develop knowledge of safe pregnancy within community and social group.........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Teenage pregnancy is usually between thirteen and nineteen years of age. In addition, the
girls as young as ten who are sexually active and occasionally become pregnant and give birth to
the child. The data and statistics show the report which is related with the 90 percent of delivery
to the girls with the age of 15 to 19 years in developing countries which occur within the early
marriage where there is often an imbalance of the power, no access to the contraception and
pressure on the girls to prove their aspect of fertility (Agbonjimi and e. al., 2022). In addition,
factors such as showing parental income and the extent of a girl’s education also contributed to
such context. In this, the major causes of teenage pregnancy which is a multifaceted issue with
the many contributing factors such as poverty, gender inequalities, gender-based violence,
substance use, and the poor access to the contraceptive inequalities with the termination of
pregnancy, the low and inconsistent and the correct use of the oral contraceptive and various
causes which may play a role in the enhancing of cases of teenage pregnancy. The report focused
on the different roles that community health nurses play in overcoming adolescent pregnancy
(Holgado and e. al., 2022).
MAIN BODY
Overview of the teenage pregnancy and nurse role
To reduce the complication of the issue of teenage pregnancy, nurses used to play roles
within the different healthcare and community to minimise the risk associated with teenage girls.
Whereas, the nurse provides their contribution with the vision to provide the proper education
and knowledge that is beneficial to prevent or support the care of teenage pregnancy. There are
some of the role that community health nurses play in educating and counseling youth about the
term of sexuality, reproduction, sexually transmitted disease, and contraception. Work with the
children before they are ageing towards the position of sexually active. In addition, they provide
support and education to develop, implement, and evaluate the community-based adolescent
pregnancy prevention program or the campaign that provides a brief education to the number of
people regarding teenage pregnancy. Therefore, with the aspect nurses usually play helpful role
for the community and social group by educating about proper health outcome that may be
productive for child and mother (Mohamed and e. al., 2018).
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