Sexual Safety: Importance, Measures, and Role of Nurses

This presentation discusses the importance of sexual safety in individuals' lives, especially among teenagers. It highlights the need for safe sexual experiences and the impact of lack of sexual safety on health. The presentation also emphasizes the role of nurses in promoting sexual health and providing education on sexual safety. Measures to ensure safe sex and prevent diseases are also discussed.

SEXUAL SAFETY

SEXUAL SAFETY :1
 In individuals life sexual life plays vital role
 Sexual relationship requires a positive
approach with safe sexual experiences
 Lack of sexual safety affects ones health
directly
 Healthy sex is required for assuring safety and
escaping diseases like HIV
 Safe sex promotions specially among
teenagers is highly required to escape
diseases

SEXUAL SAFETY :2
 Sexual safety is relevant topic among
teenagers specially for girls (Connell, Crawford,
Dowsett&Kippax, 2013)
 Adolescences stages involves various
reproductive changes
 Sexual safety mainly required among
teenagers that will improve their sexual
health and aid them to avoid unavoidable
incidences due to lack of sexual safety
(Morris &Rushwan, 2015)

SEXUAL SAFETY :3
 Nurse play significant role in promoting health
 Promotion of health results in empowerment
that aids top escape avoidable situations in life
 Role of nurse is crucial in health promotion
 Nurses mainly focus on prevention of diseases
and changing behavior of
individuals(Kemppainen, Tossavainen&Turunen, 2013)
 Nurse provides health education and aware the
teenagers about sexual safety(Chandra-Mouli,
Lane & Wong, 2015)

SEXUAL SAFETY :4
 Teaching plan aids in guiding teaching ideas &
knowledge's (Wiliam& Thompson, 2017)
 For addressing sexual health teaching plan
designed specially for teenagers to prevent
them from unavoidable incidences due to lack
of sexual safety
 Cultural considerations interrupt safe sexual
practices (Berns, 2013)
 Culture influences individuals and this
sometimes leads to disastrous situations

SEXUAL SAFETY :4
 Nurses can assess learning needs
 Learning outcomes leads to awareness about sexual
safety among adolescents
 Three domains of learning is present Cognitive,
Affective & Psychomotor (Yang, Chew, Sun & Shanks, 2018)
 Sexual safety among teenagers leads to cognitive
domain which shows development of knowledge while
psychomotor enhances inner skills and affective aids
in adapting to changes
 Multiple learning strategies aids to guide learners
 Evaluation of learning process done by collecting
feedbacks from mentors and adolescent learners

SEXUAL SAFETY :5
 Various measures like coitus interrupt, latex condom,
can be taken while intercourse to avoid undesirable
situations like pregnancy, STDs
 Several factors affects adolescences and this determines
sexual safety
 Contraceptives best way to avoid risks of having
unprotected sex
 Contraceptives like pills, intrauterine devices (copper T),
Norplant easily available in medical stores
 Reports of UNICEF shows that in 2017 about 250,000 of
adolescences of the age 15 to 19 was newly affected by HIV out of
590,000 young adult among the 15 to 24 years

SEXUAL SAFETY :5
 Growing numbers of HIV patients requires severe
precautions against unprotected sex
 Diagnosis of diseases related to sexual diseases
like HIV RNA early detection,10 test STD panel
 Most individuals do not prefer to undergo these
tests because of leakage of information
 Recently mobile technology used to increases
awareness about sexual safety
 Utilization of mobile technology aids to reach
adolescence and aware them about sexual safety

SEXUAL SAFETY :6
 Sexual safety assures prevention from all
unavoidable situations that may arise due to lack
of sexual safety
 Several tips exists for safer sex: Sex with one
partner, Absence of STI in partners, Usage of
contraceptives, Early screening of disease
 Adolescence ( 15-19 years) & young adults (19-
24 years) bear burden of sexually
transmitted diseases
 Necessary to foster safe sex awareness among
Adolescence & young adults

SEXUAL SAFETY :6
 Licensed practiced nurse (LPN) plays vital role to motivate
youngster to involve in safe sex
 Nurses have different role and responsibility toward
students and patients
 Nurses should play role of educator where she demonstrates
her knowledge to make comprehend adolescents
 Nurses should create rapport & make them comfortable to
discuss about sex
 Nurses aware adolescences about consequences of not
having safe sex , plays role of health teacher

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