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Title: Educating adolescent about Sexual Transmitted Infections.
Prepare a brief literature review and findings related to best practices with at least three scholarly resources cited in APA (6th ed.) format
Your work should include:
Identification of an advanced practice nursing issue or practice problem of concern
Design a research question using the PICOT format
Plan, Do, Study, Act Process that could be used
Any implications that the investigation might have for nursing practice.
During this review, you will use the PICOT questioning format/formula to develop an answerable research question. All elements are listed below:
P: Population/disease (age, gender, ethnicity, disorder)
I: Intervention or variable of interest (exposure to a disease, risk behavior, prognostic factor)
C: Comparison (a placebo or “business as usual” such as no disease, absence of risk factor, or prognostic factor B)
O: Outcome (risk of disease, accuracy of a diagnosis, rate of occurrence of adverse outcome)
T: Time (the time it takes to demonstrate an outcome; e.g., the time it takes for the intervention to achieve an outcome or how long participants are observed)
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Answer
Educating Adolescents about Sexual Transmitted Infections.
The role of nurses in caring for adolescents in various settings affords them more significant opportunities to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health, hence reducing the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections. A report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that the youth aged 15-24 account for nearly half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections in the United States annually (Sieving et al., 2019). As a result, the health care system has improved access to adequate sexual and reproductive care by providing preventive counseling, sex education, and treatment across health care settings. Further, nursing education equips nurses with knowledge and skills to influence positive sexual outcomes among adolescence. Regardless of these efforts, adolescent morbidity and mortality related to sexually transmitted infections are on the rise, which calls for more effective interventions and nursing practices (Santa Maria et al., 2017). Therefore, this article presents findings of best practices to improve sexually transmitted infections outcomes among adolescents. By using the PICOT format, the developed research question is as follows: In community-dwelling adolescents, how do sexually transmitted infections screening compared to voluntary counseling affect adolescent STI morbidity and mortality cases annually?
Educating adolescents about sexually transmitted infections faces multiple challenges, especially on the aspect of it being a ‘voluntary’ measure. Both nurses and adolescents are inclined to the perception that sex education should be voluntary. However, the vulnerability of this age group to sexually transmitted infections calls for more effective interventions. Sexually transmitted infection screening among adolescents is considered a valid response for improving sexual outcomes among adolescents. The CDC recommends screening adolescents for STIs during every encounter in all health care settings (Santa Maria et al., 2017). With screening, nurses can initiate sexual health conversations during adolescent consultation, regardless of the clinical background or the reason for the encounter. Also, adolescents should get access to a youth-friendly service that may guide their sexual health decision in the future. Through screening, adolescents can learn about the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
For nurses, STI screening becomes a useful tool for educating about sexual health among adolescents. According to Braxton et al. (2018), with more than 40percent of the U.S. adolescents acquiring annual medical examinations, only 5percent of adolescents aged 13-18 receive STI counseling during general clinical visits. Thus, screening during clinical visitations offers nurses more significant opportunities to develop and administer appropriate sexual health screening and counseling to adolescents. The intervention poses positive implications on nursing education as nurses get the chance to use their knowledge and skills to provide sexual health counseling to adolescents. Through STI screening, nurses are in a better position to prevent sexually transmitted infections prevalence among adolescents and administer early treatment.
Therefore, the population in question is community-dwelling adolescents across all health care settings. The disease in question is sexually transmitted illnesses. The intervention in the proposal is sexually transmitted infection screening in comparison to voluntary counseling intervention. The outcome would be cases of sexually transmitted infection morbidity and mortality among adolescents. At the same time, the time it would take for the response to achieve its outcomes would be a year. The effectiveness of the intervention will materialize by comparing with the previous CDC’s annual report on sexually transmitted infections among adolescents. Hence, the developed research question is as follows: In community-dwelling adolescents, how do sexually transmitted diseases screening compared to voluntary counseling affect adolescent STI morbidity and mortality cases annually?
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Braxton, J., Davis, D. W., Emerson, B., Flagg, E. W., Grey, J., Grier, L., ... & Llata, E. (2018). Sexually transmitted disease surveillance 2017. Santa Maria, D., Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jemmott, L. S., Derouin, A., & Villarruel, A. (2017). Nurses on the Front Lines: Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Health Care Settings: An evidence-based guide to delivering counseling and services to adolescents and parents. The American journal of nursing, 117(1), 42. Sieving, R. E., O’Brien, J. R. G., Saftner, M. A., & Argo, T. A. (2019). Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among US Adolescents and Young Adults: Patterns, Clinical Considerations, and Prevention. Nursing Clinics, 54(2), 207-225.
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