Assessment of a Middle Adolescent Girl

Assessment of a Middle Adolescent Girl

Assessment of a Middle Adolescent Girl

One of the most important aspects of health is carrying out health promotion among populations. However, different populations and age groups have varying needs; hence a chosen health promotion has to be tailored toward meeting such needs. The implication is that the healthcare professionals, such as nurses, have to perform assessments to gain insight into the specific needs of these populations. Performing a sexual health assessment in teenagers can be complicated, especially if a health care professional like a nurse has to assess a patient of the opposite sex (Mazur et al., 2018). Therefore, the professionals have to employ effective strategies that would make the assessment a success.

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A male nurse practitioner can make a 14-year-old girl cooperate during the assessment by first creating a relaxed and enabling environment. In most cases, adolescents or teenagers are shy when discussing matters of sexual health (Frederick et al., 2018). Therefore, as a male nurse, I would first assure the girl that our conversation would remain private and confidential. Such an assurance would make the environment an enabling and relaxed one. I would also ask the girl to give their opinion on whether the accompanying mum should be in the assessment room, and following the teenager’s suggestion may make it easier and enable the assessment to be successful.

Another strategy of ensuring that the adolescent cooperates during the assessment is to explain the importance of sexual health education and promotion and underscore the fact that even though I am a male nurse practitioner, I understand the importance of sexual health promotion to both sexes. I would explain to the patient that it is necessary to get a successful assessment of an individual to help come up with effective sexual health promotion strategies such as education and individualized plans (“WHO,” 2018).

References

Frederick, N. N., Campbell, K., Kenney, L. B., Moss, K., Speckhart, A., & Bober, S. L. (2018). Barriers and facilitators to sexual and reproductive health communication between pediatric oncology clinicians and adolescent and young adult patients: the clinician perspective. Pediatric blood & cancer, 65(8), e27087. https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.27087

Mazur, A., Brindis, C. D., & Decker, M. J. (2018). Assessing youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services: a systematic review. BMC health services research, 18(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2982-4.

World Health Organization. (2018). WHO recommendations on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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Assessment of a middle adolescent girl by a male provider
One health promotion idea that would be important to be discussed with a 14-year-old girl patient would be sexual health.
How would you be successful in getting the adolescent that is brought by her mother to fully cooperate during your assessment as a male nurse practitioner assigned to this patient?