The reviews were conducted by Joyce Cappiello RN, FNP, Asst. Clinical Professor at the University of New Hampshire. Textbooks were reviewed for their inclusion if they met the criteria of: 1) authorship by family nurse practitioners, 2) marketed to family nurse practitioner, and 3) publication date of 2000 or later. Only three textbooks met this criteria as NP authorship of textbooks is limited at this time. Family practice guideline texts were also selected using the same criteria. Texts were reviewed for their inclusion of the following: 1) general counseling guidelines for unintended pregnancy counseling, 2) initiating referrals for abortion care, 3) discussion of types of procedures, and 4) overall attention to reproductive choices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This article by Paul et al
discusses the successful integration of abortion training into routine
gynecology rotation in three family medicine programs.
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.
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.
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
This article by Steinauer et
al published in The American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology notes that a positive correlation between more
extensive abortion training in residency programs and future provision of
abortion care.
Developed and
reviewed by leading reproductive health experts and women's health
advocates, this powerpoint created by AAP has everything you need to teach students in
APCprograms the basics about unintended
pregnancy, emergency contraception, pregnancy options counseling, and
abortion.
