Chapter 53 Nursing Management Sexually Transmitted Diseases

1. As the clinic nurse, what routine information would you want to obtain from S.R.?

During information gathering, the nurse has to ask appropriate questions that are related to the reason the patient is seeking care in appropriate manner. The nurse has to put patient’s cultural background in to consideration while asking questions. The nurse should focus on asking open-ended questions to get the most important information from the patient. Back channeling, probing, and closed ended questions can also be used to get additional information. The nurse analyzes the most important symptoms from the assessment, group similar symptoms together, and document these findings to determine the nursing diagnosis.

B) According to the “ Journal of Medical Ethics” it may not be that simple to assist with

I must be aware, as the patient’s advocate, of the choice of each individual patient regarding his or her medical management or, as in this case, the withholding of treatment.

The patient requests a more intensive service or test that is deemed to be medically necessary by the provider.

Vaginitis symptoms. At this point, it was difficult to tell because of yeast cream that she was using, what her symptoms were from. I do think based on the history, though that this is likely related to a yeast vaginitis. She was given a prescription for Diflucan 150 mg one p.o. for one dose. May repeat in one week #2 with no refills and she is aware what to watching for regarding that. She will let me know if that does not improve.

Gonorrhea and chlamydia are sexually transmitted diseases that tend to be more apparent in males than females. Men tend to develop symptoms within days of the initial infection; they usually manifest as inflammation of the urethra, painful urination, and abnormal discharge. Symptoms are so obvious that men seek immediate medical attention before complications occur; women on the other hand, tend to have little to no symptoms at all. A female’s symptoms are so mild that they are often mistaken as a simple bladder or vaginal infection and go untreated. Unfortunately, these diseases do not go away on their own if gonorrhea and chlamydia are not properly treated

Syphilis, AIDS, herpes, these are something no one wants, unfortunately, thousands live day to day in hiding with these diseases. The number of reported sexually transmitted disease, also known as venereal disease, have greatly increased since the mid-1900s. There are roughly twenty-five different types of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States that we encounter, such as HIV, AIDS, genital warts, chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis, syphilis, vaginitis and trichomonas’s. In most states today, medically, accurate sex education is required to be taught in public schools to the youth community at some point to educate about the uncaring world of sexual diseases. However, the processes to educate our youth are simply outdated

The time from exposure to genital herpes until the primary outbreak of infection is generally 2 to 14 days. Most people may not notice their first infection because of lack of symptoms. The entire body may become affected causing flu-like symptoms. Then blisters soon appear around genitals or anus. The blisters break within a few days causing painful and oozing sores. The sores usually heal within 3 weeks without treatment and usually don’t leave scars. The sores on women usually take longer to heal than men.

Recurrence rate was 1.9% (12 patients), in which all patient were retreated conservatively and had complete healing, none required surgical intervention.

Sara, I enjoyed your discussion post. I link how you introduced the subject. Yes, I can imagine, as an emergency nurse patients are diagnosed in the emergency department can be an emotional roller coaster. After reflecting the article it makes me question is the physicians told these patients that had syphilis. Most time regardless of the diagnosis most individuals want treatment. It is great to see how far we have come the progress of research and nurses code of ethics. Like you discussed all medical fields are taught. It shocking to see that once penicillin was recognized as the drug of choice and successful at treating in the mid-1940s these individuals were not treated (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). Once again,

The significant figures (also called significant digits and abbreviated sig figs, sign.figs, sig digs or s.f.) of a number are those digits that carry meaning

Since long before, deadly diseases have lived among us and many of them, have caused numerous tragedies. As the world’s population increases and time keeps on progressing, new illnesses will pop up and only we have the power to refrain ourselves from acquiring it. STD’s or Sexually Transmitted Diseases are infections spread mostly through sexual contact and has affected the lives of millions of people around the world. The discovery of STDs has made more people aware of their decisions and the people they associate with as their lives can change in one night. There are more than 20 types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases existing in the world and Trichomoniasis is one of them.

During the lifetime of the human race, comes a way to reproduce humans. Growing families from different race and different life styles.

Accurate nursing documentation is paramount to increased level of care for a patients that are admitted into hospitals, referred to other providers or discharged from care. An accurate medical record is by far the most reliable source of information on the care of a patient. The proper documentation by nurses prevents errors and facilitates continuity of care.