Nursing professionals have disclosed information on their official online channels to prevent sexually transmitted infections in the wake of a rise in cases, many of which occur with new partners or in sporadic contacts, sometimes from alcohol consumption and other drugs. are connected.
In addition, according to data collected by the General Council of the Official Nursing Colleges of the Ministry of Health, about a third of new cases of syphilis and half of gonorrhea cases occur in people under the age of 30.
This information can be seen and heard on the Nursing channel on YouTube in its program “Take care of your nurse”.
The nurse offering this information in this new program is Elena Rubio, a school nurse from Madrid that, as the council president Florentino Pérez Raya explains, her work is fundamental from the point of view of health care, may face potential accidents. which may originate in centers or care for students with outdated processes such as scholastic.
School nurses, according to Perez, are “critical in terms of health promotion and prevention”, and in the case of sexually transmitted infections it is important to know how to address young people in their own language, “with clear messages based on scientific evidence.” with”, which counteracts other content that unfortunately spreads, especially on social networks”.
In the program, Rubio explains the most common transmission routes and infections – syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital herpes, crab lice, HIV and human papilloma virus, with the latter being the most common – and its symptoms.
Discovered on: 2022-09-24 22:14:24
Source: Nurses Condemn Rise In STDs
