Protocol for Ectopic Pregnancy Treatment
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Protocol for patients that have been diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy and are clinically stable.

American Urological Association Vasectomy Guidelines

American Urological Association review of vasectomy literature in order to provide guidance to clinicians who provide vasectomies.

Mentoring For Service-Delivery Change: A trainer’s handbook

This IPAS curriculum applies the mentoring model to the health-care arena to help mentors guide change in health care settings.

Protocol for Pregnancy of Unknown Location
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This is a protocol to care for patients who have had an ultrasound without visualization of an intrauterine pregnancy and who have an indeterminate last menstrual period. For further guidance, read our Protocol for Ectopic Pregnancy Treatment.

Approach to Patients Undergoing Self-managed Medication Abortion
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This resource shares common questions and concerns clinicians may hear about self-managed abortion (SMA) and how you can answer patient questions and share important information. Some highlights include: “How do I know the pills are real?”, “What’s the best way to use the pills?”, and “Can anyone tell that I used these pills?”

Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion

This comprehensive reference, published by the World Health Organization, is a useful resource for clinicians in various settings to provide safe abortion care and to treat complications.  Link:  http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/unsafe_abortion/clinical-practice-safe-abortion/en/

Clinical Mentoring and Provider Support for Abortion-Related Care

An IPAS training manual for clinical mentors and others providing clinical and programmatic support to health-care providers offering abortion-related care. Includes content, activities and materials to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills for clinical mentoring and provider support.

Guide to Phone Triage: After Hours Medication Abortion
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This guide can be used to train support staff on answering phone calls from patients undergoing a medication abortion. It provides scripts and answers to common questions asked by patients and notes situations when staff should transfer patient calls to a clinician.

Clinician Guide for Trauma-Informed Care

This job aid by the National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning serves as a guide for clinicians performing physical examinations in sexual and reproductive health settings. In addition to defining trauma and trauma-informed care (TIC), this guide offers a roadmap to providing TIC before, during, and after a physical exam with action steps and sample phrases. A self-assessment checklist is available at the end of this guide.

Best Practice Guide for All-Options Pregnancy Counseling

This all-options pregnancy counseling guide, from Provide, supports providers with step-by-step best practices for walking patients through their options upon receiving a positive pregnancy test, including abortion.