Abstract
Sexual health is an essential and often neglected component of primary care. Nurse practitioners are ideal members of the healthcare team to be providing sexual health information, diagnoses, and treatments. Unfortunately, this is an area that has been lacking in the education of all healthcare providers. This paper describes a program that incorporates sexual health into the curriculum for nurse practitioner students through collaboration between the university school of nursing and the local health department. Given the increasing shortage of clinical sites and the need to train nurse practitioners to be competent in the delivery of sexual health, this is a model that could benefit other schools of nursing.
Highlights
Sexual health has been acknowledged to be an important and often overlooked aspect of healthcare (Dean & Fenton, 2010; Institute of Medicine, 2011; Steiner, Aquino, & Fenton, 2013; Swartzendruber & Zenilman, 2010)
This paper will report on a successful method of incorporating sexual health training for nurse practitioner (NP) students in a university doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program utilizing collaboration between the academic institution and the local health department
After each patient is seen, time is devoted to an in-depth discussion of all aspects of the case. This focuses on the risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), prevention education, treatment and partner notification and/or partner delivered therapy (PDT), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) considerations, followup needs, primary care needs, vaccinations such as hepatitis A and B and human papilloma virus (HPV)
Summary
Sexual health has been acknowledged to be an important and often overlooked aspect of healthcare (Dean & Fenton, 2010; Institute of Medicine, 2011; Steiner, Aquino, & Fenton, 2013; Swartzendruber & Zenilman, 2010). There is a tremendous need to institute a national strategy for sexual health in the United States and one important aspect of that is to incorporate sexual health services into primary care (Swartzendruber & Zenilman, 2010). The need to improve skills in the area of sexual health is severely hampered by several convergent crises in the realm of nursing education. This paper will report on a successful method of incorporating sexual health training for nurse practitioner (NP) students in a university doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program utilizing collaboration between the academic institution and the local health department
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