Sex and sexuality in healthcare practice
We as a healthcare professionals have an important role of the healthcare practice in addressing the sexual health needs of patients.
Healthcare professionals should learn the challenges and barriers involved in talking about sex and sexuality with patients, and will have an opportunity to examine their own values, attitudes, and feelings about sexuality and sexual health.
1. Why Should healthcare professionals Address Sexuality?
Healthcare professionals have an important role of addressing sex in clinical healthcare settings . this is most significant in spinal injuries related patients. They faced many challenges after the injuries and the problem become more wort if the patient are in adulthood and with disability of other types such as visual or mental disabilities.
2. Speaking of Sex
Healthcare professionals encountered many challenges and barriers involved in talking about sex and sexuality with clients. In country like our we can't talk openly in such topics specially when our patients are of opposite genders, But we can share the things with patient with taking in confidence.
3. Before discussing sex and sexuality with our patients we should go for examining our own values, attitudes, and knowledge about sex.
Our own values, attitudes and feelings about sexuality and acknowledgements, respect and affirm the sexual values, attitudes and feelings of others.
4. Basic Sexual Function
Healthcare professionals should be able to describe the basic anatomy and physiology of sexual functioning, and will discuss the distinct phases of sexual functioning.
5. Sexual Disorders
Healthcare professionals should be able to describe male and female disorders of sexual function, and how physical, psychological and social factors can affect sexual functioning.
If we are sound in above mentioned topics then comfortably we can discuss the sex and sexuality with our patients and help them in every possible way.
We as a healthcare professionals have an important role of the healthcare practice in addressing the sexual health needs of patients.
Healthcare professionals should learn the challenges and barriers involved in talking about sex and sexuality with patients, and will have an opportunity to examine their own values, attitudes, and feelings about sexuality and sexual health.
1. Why Should healthcare professionals Address Sexuality?
Healthcare professionals have an important role of addressing sex in clinical healthcare settings . this is most significant in spinal injuries related patients. They faced many challenges after the injuries and the problem become more wort if the patient are in adulthood and with disability of other types such as visual or mental disabilities.
2. Speaking of Sex
3. Before discussing sex and sexuality with our patients we should go for examining our own values, attitudes, and knowledge about sex.
Our own values, attitudes and feelings about sexuality and acknowledgements, respect and affirm the sexual values, attitudes and feelings of others.
4. Basic Sexual Function
Healthcare professionals should be able to describe the basic anatomy and physiology of sexual functioning, and will discuss the distinct phases of sexual functioning.
5. Sexual Disorders
Healthcare professionals should be able to describe male and female disorders of sexual function, and how physical, psychological and social factors can affect sexual functioning.
If we are sound in above mentioned topics then comfortably we can discuss the sex and sexuality with our patients and help them in every possible way.