Improving Women’s Health Services by Adding Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods into Primary Care-Focused Student Health

<p> Often resulting from inconsistent contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy among young women between ages 18-24 continues to be an issue in the United States. Long-acting reversible contraceptives, including intrauterine contraceptives and the subdermal contraceptive implant, are safe, effective, long-acting, easily reversible, and non-user dependent contraceptive methods, yet currently are greatly underutilized. Most of the contraceptive methods are provided at our student health services except for the highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptive methods. As family nurse practitioners and health care providers, it is essential to integrate this service into primary care-focused college student health clinics by providing evidence-based information to clinical providers and clients to address the misconceptions regarding long-acting reversible contraceptive methods use. The purpose of this project is to propose the addition of the highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptive methods to improve health care services at the Student Health and Counseling Services of California State University East Bay. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• cheng, Shu-chen jennie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Brian Budds, JD, RN
• Karen Van Leuven, PhD, FNP
• Delfina Clinch, MD

• Contraception
• Copper T 380A IUD
• Etonogestrel releasing-subdermal implant
• Intrauterine Contraception (IUC)
• Intrauterine Device (IUD)
• Levonorgestrel releasing-intrauterine system LNG-IUS)
• Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC)
• Myths and Misconceptions
• College student health clinics
• Family Practice Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/dnp/49

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:dnp-1059