Reference no: EM133755772

Question

Jack has been to a local Sexual Health Clinic for his regular 6th monthly sexual health screening. Three days later he has received a call from a Nurse Practitioner advising him that he has tested positive for Syphilis and his throat swab came back positive for Gonorrhoea. He was advised to come back to the clinic to receive the required treatment. Two days later Jack went back and saw Samantha, the Nurse Practitioner (NP), at the clinic and she was able to administer all required treatments and provided him with a prescription for Azithromycin and some condoms. Jack has also received some confidential counselling and was asked to contact his sexual partners from the past six months or alternatively provide contact numbers of his sexual partners so that the clinic can contact them directly. Jack has said that he will contact his sexual partners himself to inform them of his diagnosis. Samantha (NP) followed up with Jack the following week to see if had contacted his sexual partners and he said he was too embarrassed to do so and was not willing to provide any numbers to the clinic at this stage. Samantha was trying to explain to Jack the.