Patients’ Trust Earned By Healthcare Providers Who Discuss Intimate Piercings

Patients with genital and nipple piercings, also known as “intimate piercings,” are best served by healthcare providers who initiate positive discussions about them, according to a new article in the journal Nursing for Women’s Health.Yet, too often, such discussions do not occur, even when treating infections and other conditions related to the piercings, due to healthcare providers’ uneasiness over this increasingly common form of body art.

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Filed under: Nursing on April 8th, 2008