Question

Locate one Clinical Best Practice Guideline or recent research article (within the past five years) related to sexuality, medications, or a psychosocial aspect of aging that aligns with your practice area or an area of interest. Apply one of the BSN Core Competencies that fit the article/guideline and state your rationale for using it.

Answer 1

Sexual life is important in later life. elders often view sexuality as affection, passion, totality, admiration. it shows strong physical functioning, sense of identity and self-confidence. After menopause sexual dysfunction can be happened due to serious health conditions, using prescription mediation side effects and psychological factors related to sexual function. psychosocial factors like family, remarriage, cohabiting, disparities, sexual intend, family condition affect sexuality in elders.
Evidence-based treatment with multidisciplinary, biomedical and psychotherapeutic intervention help elders sexual dysfunction. Quality care for elders for their sexual dysfunction help to identify their problem and needs. additional consideration for elders needs to their physical and congntive ability and communication. BSN core competence of clinical practice that should meet the elders needs and care them using cognitive thinking and nurins skills. it should inlcude collaborative, quality care, communication, maintaining privacy and confidentiality in sexuall dysfunction that needs leadership skills for nurses in decision making power to manage the elders sexuality and dysfucniton.