NURS360 genital rectum disorders

Chapters24-26 Female and Male Genitourinary Systems General Health History: Present Health Status • Do you have any chronic illness? • Describe.- cervical, breast, ovaries, diabetes, • Do you take medications? • What? How often? • Oral contraceptives and broad-spectrum antibiotics • Diuretics and antihypertensive-nitro, Erectile disfunction General Health History: Present Health Status (Cont’d) • Do you ever perform self examination of your genitalia? • Self testicular exams- we do not recommend them anymore • How often do you have a genitalia exam by health care professional? • What were results? • Women: Pelvic exam and Pap-start at age 21, normal every 3 years. After 30 if still normal every 5 years. • Men: Genitalia and prostate General Health History: Present Health Status (Cont’d) • Vaccinations • Hepatitis A: Found in feces; spread by close personal contact. Spread by sex, living in the same area, or eating and drinking food with Hep A or traveling to areas with it • Hepatitis B: Found in blood and body fluids. Spread when there is contact of blood or body fluid to someone not immune, sex, needles, or a mother contracting it to her child as it goes through the birth canal • Gardasil: prevents against HPV. Use to be a series of three • Do not need cervical cancer in family health history