What it means
Nurses talk about it when teaching about safer sex, birth control, fertility and when it is safe to have sex again after childbirth, surgery or a heart attack.
For the nurse
Ask about sexual health in private, in a calm and nonjudgmental way. Teach that condoms lower the risk of sexually transmitted infectionSEK-shoo-uh-lee trans-MIT-id in-FEK-shunAn infection passed from one person to another mainly through sexual contact.Full entry s.
At a glance
| Everyday words | sex |
|---|---|
| Spanish | relaciones sexuales |
Related terms
sexually transmitted infection
An infection passed from one person to another mainly through sexual contact.
hormonal contraceptive
A birth control method that uses hormones to prevent pregnancy.