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Postabortion Care Curriculum
USAID PAC Working Group
2010
This curriculum contains: a Reference Manual, a Participant's Guide, a Trainer's Guide and presentation graphics in PowerPoint format.
Postabortion Care Curriculum: Reference Manual [ENG] [FRE] [RUS]
Postabortion Care Curriculum: Participant's Guide [ENG] [FRE] [RUS]
Postabortion Care Curriculum: Trainer's Guide [ENG] [FRE] [RUS]
PowerPoint Presentations:
Postabortion Care: Values and Attitudes
Emergency Treatment: Preparation and Client Assessment
Emergency Treatment: Uterine Evacuation Methods
Emergency Treatment: Pain Management
Emergency Treatment: Sharp Curettage
Emergency Treatment: Vacuum Aspiration
Emergency Treatment: Postabortion Complications and Management
Family Planning and Counseling and Provision
STI and HIV Service Provision; Optional Set
Enhancing Postabortion Care (PAC) Counseling Skills: An Interactive Learning Tool
Intrahealth
2008
The interactive simulations in this DVD package aim to enhance or refresh the counseling skills of experienced PAC providers.
Postabortion Care On-the-Job Training
Ministry of Health, Nepal
August 2006
This clinical training experience is designed to prepare competent PAC providers using an on-the-job (OJT) approach. Essential to this OJT course are four basic components:
Implementation Guideline of Structured On-the-Job Training for Postabortion Care in Nepal
Ministry of Health, Nepal
July 2007
These guidelines were developed to help program managers and trainers plan and manage PAC on-the-job (OJT) training courses. The document serves to help establish OJT sites in health facilities and train service providers in PAC.
Postabortion Care: A Reference Manual for Improving Quality of Care
Ministry of Health, Nepal
December 2002
The purpose of this manual is to provide clinicians (physicians, nurses, and midwives) with essential information on the provision of comprehensive postabortion care services. It is intended to assist clinicians in treating incomplete abortion and its life-threatening complications. The manual outlines the full range of activities needed to provide appropriate, high-quality postabortion care, including family planning and referral to health care services needed after emergency treatment. The material in this manual is arranged sequentially according to the usual way in which patients are cared for—starting with the initial assessment of their condition and ending with the provision of follow-up care, including family planning and other reproductive health services. Moreover, it is provided in concise segments, for facilitating learning and recall. Finally, key points are repeated in several sections to emphasize their importance.
Postabortion Care Clinical Skills Curriculum
Ministry of Health, Tanzania
July 2002
This training curriculum is based on the current 5-element construct for PAC which includes the traditional 3 elements plus community mobilization and expanded counseling. The curriculum is said to be adaptable for varied approaches to training (e.g., self-direct/individualized learning, OJT, or whole site training) though the main approach in its writing is for centralized, group training.
COPE Handbook: A Process for Improving Quality in Health Services
EngenderHealth
2003
The handbook is for facilitators as they orient managers, train site facilitators, guide facility staff in using the COPE tools, and adapt the COPE process and tools to best fit the facility's needs. The chapters are organized to take the reader from an introduction to the concepts of COPE and quality improvement to the basics of how to prepare and lead the first COPE exercises, facilitate an Action Plan Meeting, conduct subsequent exercises, perform a Client-Flow Analysis, and follow up between exercises. The handbook is designed to be used in conjunction with COPE toolbooks oriented toward a variety of types of health services.
COPE for Reproductive Health Services: A Toolbook to Accompany the COPE Handbook
EngenderHealth
2003
A supplement to the COPE Handbook: A Process for Improving Quality in Health Services. Provides updated versions of the self-assessment guides, the client interview guide, and other materials for a range of reproductive health services, including antenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn care, postabortion care, family planning, reproductive tract infections (including sexually transmitted infections), HIV and AIDS, gynecological services, men's reproductive health services, sexuality, infertility, and prevention of harmful practices.
PreService Implementation Guide: A Process for Strengthening Preservice Education
JHPIEGO
September 2002
This guide describes the step-by-step process used to create a positive environment on the national level for strengthening medical, nursing, and preservice education, and the steps on the institutional level to improve the existing curriculum and its implementation. Adapted from the World Health Organization's 2001 document Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Pre-Service Education.
Increasing the Efficiency of Training in Postabortion Care Programs: The Zambia Experience
JHPIEGO
April 2002
Describes the “Training in Reproductive Health” PAC program in Zambia, which incorporated four key elements into its framework: advocacy, access to services, institutionalization of training, and sustainability.
Educating Advanced Practice Nurses and Midwives: From Practice to Training
Thompson, JE and Krisman-Scott, MA
2001
Three appendices from this book include suggested guidelines for preparation of preceptors, sample clinical data sheet, and sample clinical teacher report form.
Sample Clinical Site Data Sheet
Sample Clinical Teacher Report Form
Suggested Guidelines for Preparation of Preceptors
National Postabortion Care Curriculum for Service Providers
Ministry of Health, Kenya
July 2002
This National Post-Abortion Care Curriculum was borne out of the need to harmonize and standardize the various curricula used in Kenya to train PAC service providers. This effort came in the wake of the Ministry’s decision to allow the training in, and provision of PAC services by nurses and clinical officers, a practice previously reserved for medical doctors only. This adjustment in policy was necessitated by the global and local trends in maternal mortality.
Training Works!
USAID
November 2003
This handbook is for anyone who has a role in the management, design, delivery, or evaluation of group-based training for healthcare professionals who are currently providing services such as inservice training. It summarizes the tasks that should be completed at each stage of training to ensure an effective training course.
Practical Guide for Selection of MVA Instruments
EngenderHealth
2001
In an effort to help buyers assess the various MVA instruments on the market, EngenderHealth and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) conducted the first-ever comparative evaluation of MVA instruments in 2001, testing the durability, quality, safety, and usability of all instruments available at the time. In addition, for each product evaluated, information was compiled about the product, its distribution, and the manufacturer’s contact information. As no widely known standards existed for evaluating MVA instruments under field conditions, innovative laboratory tests were created for this evaluation.
