Concept Exploration And Analysis Paper

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Nursing 801 Concept Exploration and Analysis Paper Keri L. Johnson Carlow University As Dorothea Johnson’s Behavioral Systems Model mentions, sexuality is an important subsystem to humans. She asserts that this subsystem has the function of procreation, gratification, and the development of gender-roll identities/behaviors (Butts & Rich, 2011). For the purposes of this paper, I’ll focus on heterosexual relationships, although I acknowledge and respect that different types of sexual relationships exist. I realized that sexuality was important to me, early on in my career. I enjoyed working with adolescents, and I came to appreciate the very special place I’d come to hold in conducting a first gynecological exam. I knew that I had the power to welcome these young ladies into healthcare, or risk alienating them from care for years to come. Being in the gynecology field, I had to understand the unique sexuality issues that were important to young women. We learned in school we had to be focused on teen pregnancy and STD’s. When I first began, I dutifully screened for STD’s and offered contraception. Then I got some experience under my belt, and I slowly mustered up the courage to ask questions. Why do adolescents have so many sex partners? I saw a 14 year old girl, recently, who just had sex. I asked her K: “How did you pick him?” P: “Oh, I didn’t pick him, he picked me.” K: “Really? And how did he pick you?” P: “He asked me for my phone number.” I could feel my brow begin to furrow. (That’s all it takes to get into bed, today? Let me understand, now you don’t even get the dinner?) One week later, on a Friday afternoon (I seem to lose the brain/mouth filter, as the week progresses), I had a mother and daughter come in for an exam. The mother pulled me aside, and told me that her daughter just started to have sex, and she wanted me to

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