Adolescent Confidential Healthcare
Adolescent Confidential Healthcare
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QUESTION 1
An adolescent’s concerns about privacy can prevent them from seeking primary health care, especially for specific sensitive health care services such as STI screening and family planning issues. Those with privacy concerns are also less likely to talk openly with a health care clinician about important health issues, such as substance use, mental health, and risky sex. Recognizing that confidentiality is critical to high-quality care for adolescent women, professional health care organizations have adopted policy statements and practice guidelines that support the provision of confidential services.
Discuss these guidelines and the laws in your state that address adolescent confidential health care
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QUESTION 2
Healthcare for women in the primary care setting requires up-to-date, gender-specific knowledge regarding disease prevention and disease management. An average female has a life expectancy of eighty two years old. In spite of that, there are several health problems in women that need to be addressed and given attention at every primary care visit.
Discuss a primary care-focused visit devoted to wellness and or disease affecting women and health-enhancing strategies that you would include in the visit.
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In Florida, a minor is required to seek the consent of the parent or guardian when seeking treatment for substance abuse, mental health, and risky sexual behavior. Although the guidelines for the conduct of the confidential health care in the state allow some minors to give informed consent to their providers in place of the one provided by the parent, there are circumstances that restrict the disclosure of the health information of adolescents in the state. According to Kerwin et al. (2015), healthcare practitioners in Florida must understand the categories of minors that may consent to any medical care without the approval of the parent or guardian. They noted that these categories include married minors or divorced ones and those older than 16 that is legally emancipated by the court. An additional aspect of the confidentiality care guidelines for the state that is important for consideration is the situations that relieve the healthcare worker of the responsibility to maintain the privacy rights of the adolescent patient…….
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