milestone week 4

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Sexually transmitted infections

Maria I Perez

Chamberlain University College of Nursing

NR361 RN Information Systems in Healthcare

Terri McGuire

03-11-2021

Sexually Transmitted infections

Sexually transmitted infections are types of diseases spread from one person to another through sexual contact. They are caused by viruses, parasites, or bacteria. Some of the sexually transmitted infections include syphilis, hepatitis B, HIV, gonorrhea, among others. This paper aims to give a scenario of a patient suffering from a sexually transmitted disease and describe the plan for teaching the patient. The paper will also identify a mHealth app that could benefit the patient.

Patient Scenario

Even though sexually transmitted infections are preventable, millions of cases are reported in the United States every year, with reports stating the increase in the rate of spread of these illnesses. Health people 2030 emphasize averting and treating STIs and HIV and refining the well-being status of individuals living with the disease. It is reported that people having sex without protection are at high risk of getting infected with STIs. Approaches to raising screening and testing can reduce an individual's chances of becoming infected with STIs and treating the already infected ones, thus improving their health (Satterwhite et al., 2017).

In a scenario where Janie, a 22 tears old lady, is suffering from STIs, and she is attending the hospital for treatment despite her declining an examination for the first time. Jane is having extreme symptoms of gonorrhea, which requires immediate admission and treatment. Therefore, health providers have to use simple, non-judgmental, and non-threatening ways to initiate a discussion with jane regarding her illness so that she may accept to take a medical examination and undergo treatment if she tests positive (Banger et al., 2017). In my assessment, I will use a strategy whereby I will question Jane about understanding her conditions and treatments and what she would like to learn. By doing so, I will use probing and open-ended questions. From her responses, I will be able to make a conclusion and derive discussion from it.

Patient Education/Teaching Plan

In my plan to teach the patient, I will include detailed information on improving her health. That is by avoiding stress, eating healthy foods, and consuming a lot of beverages. The plan will also include information on how the illness is prevented and ways to avoid infecting other people. That is by use of protection when having sex. Early signs and symptoms of the disease are also crucial for the patient to know and thus should be included in the plan.

Description of mHealth App

A “mHealth app” is an app offered by health care associations to their patients. The app is useful for entree self-service freely from their mobile phones and other wireless devices. These apps help improve wellness, health tracking, information, and time management, primarily for those patients taking medicines at the described time and medical education and training. One of the critical applications that would benefit Jane is the Stdmaster app. It is one of the most robust apps on the Appstore for testing and treatment of STIs.

The app is crucial as it provides information about sexual health to its users. Using this app, one can know the signs and symptoms of various STIs and their treatment. This app's targeted audience is sexually active teenagers aged 15-19 years and young adults aged 20-25 years as they are at high risk of acquiring STIs. This app is also crucial for anybody suffering from these infections. The application is available for mobile and smartphones and other wireless devices (Larson, 2018). Other supporting systems for the application are windows 7,8, 10, and Mac computers. One can download it freely from google play store or Appstore. Additionally, the app offers multiple languages to its users, and one can use the language which he or she understands best.

References

Banger, H. S., Sethi, A., Malhotra, S., Malhotra, S. K., & Kaur, T. (2017). Clinico-epidemiological profile of patients attending Suraksha Clinic of tertiary care hospital of North India. Indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, 38(1), 54.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc5389216/

Larson, R. S. (2018). A path to better-quality mHealth apps. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 6(7), e10414.https://mhealth.jmir.org/2018/7/e10414

Satterwhite, C.L., et al. (2017). Sexually Transmitted Infection among U.S. Women and Men: Prevalence and Incidence Estimates, 2008. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 40(3), 187-193. DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318286bb53.https://journals.lww.com/stdjournal/fulltext/2013/03000/sexually_transmitted_infections_among_us_women_and.1.aspx

Milestone 1 NR361 updated format DLP 8.2020