Creating a Strategic Partnership for Educating Nurse Practitioner Students about Sexual Health
Author(s)
Stefan Rowniak*
Affiliation(s)
School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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.
Cite this paper
Rowniak, S. (2014) Creating a Strategic Partnership for Educating Nurse Practitioner Students about Sexual Health. Creative Education, 5, 1377-1382. doi: 10.4236/ce.2014.515156.
Rowniak, S. (2014) Creating a Strategic Partnership for Educating Nurse Practitioner Students about Sexual Health. Creative Education, 5, 1377-1382. doi: 10.4236/ce.2014.515156.
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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6234a1.htm [3] Dean, H. D., & Fenton, K. A. (2010). Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Tuberculosis. Public Health Reports, 125, 1-5. [4] Dorsen, C. (2012). An Integrative Review of Nurse Attitudes towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44, 18-43. [5] Eliason, M. J., Dibble, S., & Dejoseph, J. (2010). Nursing’s Silence on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues: The Need for Emancipatory Efforts. Advances in Nursing Science, 33, 206-218.
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http://kff.org/disparities-policy/perspective/health-care-access-and-coverage-for-the-lesbian-gay-bisexual
-and-transgender-lgbt-community-in-the-united-states-opportunities-and-challenges-in-a-new-era/ [9] Keepnews, D. M. (2011). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Nursing: Moving toward an Agenda. Advances in Nursing Science, 34, 163-170.
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