Providing Abortion Care: A Professional Toolkit

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We will be sending each trainee and coordinator the CD copy of the Toolkit.

The long awaited APC Toolkit: Providing Abortion Care: A Professional Toolkit for Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants informs, supports, and catalyzes efforts to promote the provision of abortion by certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

Lead author, Diana Taylor, RN, PhD, says the new APC Toolkit will prepare physician assistants and advanced practice nurses to advance their work in abortion care. Three organizations—ANSIRH, Abortion Access Project, and the National Abortion Federation—worked together to complete the Toolkit for new clinicians, advocates and clinicians in the field of reproductive health.

The Toolkit includes essential information and statistics about:

Abortion and access to abortion
Professional regulation, competencies, and responsibilities
The roles of state and national professional organizations and state licensing boards

The Toolkit helps clinicians compile crucial evidence and documentation to support the integration of early abortion care by guiding clinicians in the development of a professional portfolio which documents:

Basic and abortion—specialty education, knowledge, and training
Clinical and professional standards used in providing safe care

It is available in both a web-based and pdf format. We will be sending each trainee and coordinator a CD copy and look forward to your feedback.

Along with the Toolkit, ANSIRH’s Primary Care Initiative has also completed three issue briefs, which are short handouts on

Please feel free to print and distribute both the Toolkit and the ANSIRH issue briefs.

Other articles in the January 2010 issue:

For reproductive health news, see ANSIRH’s blog.