The reviews were conducted by Joyce Cappiello RN, FNP, Asst. Clinical Professor at the University of New Hampshire. The review is divided into four sections: textbooks used by midwifery and women's health nurse practitioner students, by family practice nurse practitioner students, by undergraduate nursing students and by physician assistant students. This is not an exhaustive review of all APRN and PA textbooks on the market but rather a convenience sample of texts suggested by colleagues. If you want to suggest a textbook for review, please email me at jc@abortinaccess.org.  The most recent edition of any given textbook was reviewed.

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This article published in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine reports on a qualitative study on women’s willingness to receive abortion care in a primary care setting, noting the majority accepted the integration of abortion care into family medicine settings.

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This extensive toolkit, "Start-up Kit for Integrating Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) and Medication Technologies into Women's Reproductive Health-care Services," from Ipas offers up-to-date guidance, tips, checklists, resources, and sample medical protocols on manual vacuum aspiration and medication abortion. It is comprehensive resource for clinicians seeking to include early abortion or miscarriage management in their practice.

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This article by Engstrom and Hunter published in Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing explores the use of fiction as a teaching tool for reproductive options and abortion care content.

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This toolkit was created for nursing students by a current nursing student in collaboration with AAP, providing exercises and information to help students decide what role (if any) abortion care will play in their future practice.

This workbook created by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health in collaboration with a number of other organizations is a comprehensive text for medical students designed to be used in conjunction with hands on trainin by trainees.

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This workbook created by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health in collaboration with a number of other organizations is a comprehensive text for medical students designed to be used in conjunction with hands on training by trainers.

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This article by Brahmi et al published in Family Medicine discusses the experience of third-year family medicine residents who have received training in abortion care, noting that their sample generally felt positively about their training and felt abortion was an appropriate procedure in family medicine practice.

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This article by Dehlendorf et al published in Family Medicine examines barriers to integrating abortion training in family medicine residency programs reported in results from 16 different programs.

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This article by Paul et al discusses the successful integration of abortion training into routine gynecology rotation in three family medicine programs.

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This article by Foster et al published in Contraception finds abortion education lacking in nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and certified nurse-midwife program, having surveyed all accredited U.S. programs.

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This article by Paul and Nobel published in Innovations in Family Medicine Education discusses the use of papayas as low-cost but high value simulation models when training to perform manual vacuum aspiration.

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This article by Prine et al published in Innovations in Family Medicine Education explores a structured approach to introducing medication abortion in residency program, investigating staff reservations and then systematically addressing those reservations

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