Preventative Screening

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Title: Preventative Screening

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21 year-old healthy female, presents to her nurse practitioner for her yearly check-up. She is sexually active with her boyfriend and uses condoms most of the time. She has never had a pelvic exam before.

Discuss the recommended screening tests, using the latest evidence based guidelines that the nurse practitioner should perform on Janice.

Discuss the recommended education and counseling that should be included in Janice’s care?

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Running head: PREVENTIVE SCREENING

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Preventative Screening
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PREVENTIVE SCREENING

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Preventative screening

Preventive care comprises health services like check-ups, screening and counseling
which used to prevent health problems or detect diseases while still at early stages, and can
easily respond to treatment. A pelvic exam is a physician’s visual and physical evaluation of a
female’s reproductive organs. According to Black( 2013), women should have their first pelvic
exam at the age of twenty-one, unless faced with other health problems that may require it
earlier. A pelvic exam performed due to various reasons including: checking of any abnormal
vaginal discharge, concerns about sexually transmitted diseases, ovarian cancer, cysts, or any
other reproductive health problems. Some of the screening tests that recommend for Janice
include; Pap test, Chlamydia and Gon...


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