Benefits of Sex Education for Adolescents

This assignment discusses the importance of sex education among adolescents. The evidence suggests that promoting sex education can increase the rate of using contraceptives among teenagers between 15 to 19 years old, thus saving them from unplanned pregnancy, STIs, and other related problems. It also emphasizes the need for nurses to be motivated in order to embed evidence into practice, which involves developing critical thinking, adopting technology, adapting a broader picture, effective communication, and generating monitoring relationships through conducting learning sessions for them.

Evidence based nursing
practice

PART 1
Outline of Clinical Issue:
“Unawareness in society regarding common sexual problems.”
The lack of information regarding sexual problems among people is a major issue in
society which may create severe health problems. It is very important for health professionals to
put efforts for improving sexual knowledge between people so that they can take appropriate
precautions at the time of sexual intercourse to reduce risk of occurring relevant problem
(Townsend and Morgan, 2017). However, there are various sexual transmitted diseases (STDs)
such as chlamydia, genital warts, genital herpes, gonorrhoea, hepatitis B&C, syphilis and HIV
which are required to be avoided by using precautions. In addition to this, it is essential to make
people aware about physically, medically and psychologically preparation for the sexual
intercourse as it impacts on health in critical manner. It is important to make people aware about
persistent sexual arousal and sexual pain disorder including dyspareunia, chronic vulval pain,
pelvic pain & vaginismus. Furthermore, it is significant to render knowledge about early
symptoms of sexual disorder and other problems so that people can identify the same and consul
specialist immediately to prevent further severity.
Moreover, it is necessary to address the issue of unawareness regarding sexual problems
which can be done through providing sex education to people that facilitate to improve attitude
& behaviour sexual as well as reproductive health (Stuart, 2014). Meanwhile, it consist several
risk factors which may create issue for addressing the given issue that involves cultural norms,
way of thinking, old thoughts, rituals and traditions. Furthermore, nurses are required to make
ore effective as well as efficient strategy for improving way of thinking and increase their
knowledge level about sexual diseases which encourage them to take appropriate steps for
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remaining healthy. It has been analysed that few of sexual transmitted diseases are not properly
curable including HIV/AIDS which are necessarily prevented taking precautions. Finally, people
can only spend their lives by taking regular medications for HIV while it can be evaluated at
early stages otherwise curation for the same is not available in hospitals.
The unawareness is responsible for increasing cases of sexual health problems which are
mostly undetermined when it becomes critical and that is very difficult to solve the same. It is
important to make people knowledgeable about early symptoms of sexual diseases which is
essential to prevent such severe issues in society. Initially, signs of chlamydia include painful
urination, lower abdominal pain, discharge from vagina or penis, pain during sexual intercourse
in women and testicular pain in men (Kagan and Melendez‐Torres, 2015). Secondly, symptoms
of Gonorrhoea involves thick, cloudy or bloody discharge from penis or vagina, pain or burning
sensation during urination, heavy menstrual bleeding, painful & swollen testicles, anal itching
and painful bowel movements. Thirdly, indications of Trichomoniasis consists greenish or
yellowish discharge from penis & vagina, strong vaginal odour and itching or irritation in vagina
& penis. Moreover, all these symptoms are required to be conveyed to people and motivate them
to immediately consult specialist in order to get rid off the same.
Clinical Question:
“What is the role of nurse in educating society about common sexual problems?”
The nurses plays an important role for improving awareness about sexual problems
among people and encourage them to follow appropriate practices in respect of preventing
relevant health issues. However, it is important for medical professionals to make effective
strategies which are much efficient to motivate people for improving the level of information
regarding sexual health which help to avoid relevant critical disease respectively. A nurse plays
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several roles like disease prevention specialist, community educator, leader and care giver so that
they are capable to increase awareness among society about sexual problems. Moreover,
adolescents face various sexual health challenges including unplanned pregnancy and sexually
transmitted diseases which demands to provide counselling and information to them. Meanwhile,
teenagers needs proper knowledge about physical changes in body, use of condoms, IUDs and
other related sexual precautions to ensure reproductive health.
In addition to this, nurses plays crucial role in providing education to people about
prevention and treatment of adverse sexual outcome including STIs, viral hepatitis, unintended
pregnancy, sexual violence and reproductive tract cancers. It will facilitate to solve certain
potential issues of life like relationship health & sexual responsibility, menarchal, peripartum &
menopausal changes and prostatism & erectile dysfunction. The PICO model is used which is
given below -
P – Sexual problems are faced by people between age group of 16 to 49 in terms of
STDs, unplanned pregnancy, lack of using condoms & other contraceptives, abnormality in sex
organs and infection in sexual tract. It consist different sexual issues which shows several
symptoms like abnormal discharge or bleeding from reproductive tract, painful sexual
intercourse and infection which ensure presence of related disease.
I – The nurse should follow intervention of conducting psychosexual counselling by
providing knowledge about early symptoms and promote use of condoms or other
contraceptives.
C – It is required to promote school based sex education and conduct promotional
advertisements which provide basic knowledge about sex organs and related disease along with
appropriate safety measures.
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O – Promotion of sex education encourage people to use condoms which results into
reduce in cases of sexual disease and other problems.
Evidence Searching and Rationale:
Sexual education should be provided to people for removing their related doubts and
make them comfortable to share sexual issues to doctors (Wylie and et. al., 2016). Nurse can
prefer unique way of utilising knowledge and skills in order to make positive impact on
adolescent sexual as well as reproductive outputs (Parahoo, 2014). However, it involves to
render sexual information regarding reproductive and sexual health to people in communities,
schools, public health clinics and acute acre settings. Moreover, it will provide help to motivate
people to use contraceptives and avoid sexual related diseases in proper manner (Freud, 2014). In
addition to this, it is necessary to make people educate about early symptoms of mostly spread
sexual disease so that they will remain secure from such problems.
Analysis of the Evidence:
There are various kinds of events which can be carried out to boost up awareness of
sexual disease, psychological problems and required precautions to be taken for a health
reproductive status of people. It includes promotional campaigns, advertisements, posters in
hospital premises, counselling of patients and make them comfortable to share sex related
problems (Saunamäki and Engström, 2014). It has been analysed that sexual problems like
premature ejaculation is faced up to 30% in men whereas 5% of men & 10 to 15 % of women
face abnormal pain during sexual intercourse i.e., sexual pain disorder (Lim, 2019). At the other
hand, people feel shameful to discuss about sex related issues or abnormalities which is
responsible for severity of specific sexual problem so that encouragement of confidently sharing
issue is also important to avoid the same appropriately. In addition to this, proper information
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motivate people to conduct correct sexual attempts which helps to avoid sexual problems among
different age groups and render comfortable life for adolescents and other patients who face such
issues. The sex education results into increase in rate of using contraceptives at age between 15
to 19 year old teenagers save them from unplanned pregnancy, STIs and other related problems
(Evetts, 2014).
Applying Evidence to Practice:
The above evidence facilitate to understand about benefit of promoting sex education
among people by providing relevant information (Oakley and et. al., 2014). It is necessary to
make nurses motivated in order to embed evidence into practice so that given problem can be
reduced in society. However, it involves to apply several strategies such as to develop critical
thinking, adoption of technology, adapt broader picture, effective communication and generate
monitoring relationships through conducting learning sessions for them. Moreover, nurses will
become able to apply their analysed evidences in practical life which provide support to patients
by improving their health (Likis, 2016). Additionally, it is necessary to prepare nurses mentally
and encourage them for learn to implement new methods or techniques of improving patients
outcomes along with reducing rate of sexual problems in society.
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Townsend, M. C., & Morgan, K. I. (2017). Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care
in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.
Stuart, G. W. (2014). Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing-E-Book. Elsevier Health
Sciences.
Parahoo, K. (2014). Nursing research: principles, process and issues. Macmillan International
Higher Education.
Saunamäki, N., & Engström, M. (2014). Registered nurses' reflections on discussing sexuality
with patients: responsibilities, doubts and fears. Journal of clinical nursing. 23(3-4).
531-540.
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Oakley, S. H. and et. al., (2014). Clitoral size and location in relation to sexual function using
pelvic MRI. The journal of sexual medicine. 11(4). 1013-1022.
Likis, F. E. (2016). Women’s gynecologic health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Kagan, S. H., & Melendez‐Torres, G. J. (2015). Ageism in nursing. Journal of Nursing
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Freud, S. (2014). On the sexual theories of children. Read Books Ltd.
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Evetts, J. (2014). Women and Career: Themes and Issues In Advanced Industrial Societies:
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Online
Lim R., 2019. Effect of Stress Urinary Incontinence on the Sexual Function of Couples and the
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PART 2
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