272860 Lessons learned: Core competencies in SRH from WHO and RCN

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Joyce Cappiello, PhD, FNP , Abortion Access Project, ROE Consortium, Cambridge, MA
Currently in the U.S., there are no nationally agreed upon core competencies in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for primary care. The lack of such SRH competencies impedes education and training in professional health care education programs. Both the World Health Organization and the Royal College of Nursing have developed core competencies in SRH for use in primary health care. The competencies guide the development of educational goals, objectives and outcomes in educational and training programs. With improved education and training in SRH, health care professionals can meet the needs of individual patient as well as improve progress towards meeting national health care goals. The international competencies will be analyzed from the perspective of applicability to the U. S. health care education and training models.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss the need for national core competencies in SRH for all health providers in primary care. 2. Analyze the World Health Organization and the Royal College of Nursing core competencies in SRH in terms of applicability to U.S. health care education and training.

Keywords: Abortion, International Reproductive Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Joyce is the Director of the ROE Consortium at the Abortion Access Project, Cambridge, MA. ROE seeks to address gaps in reproductive options curricula so that nursing graduates are prepared to provide quality and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care. Dr. Cappiello teaches in the family nurse practitioner program at the University of New Hampshire and provides comprehensive reproductive health care to women and their partners at the Joan G. Lovering Health Center in NH.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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