COE Learning Network: Pregnancy and Family Planning

March 13, 2024

The healthcare team will acquire knowledge and tools to help effectively integrate contraceptive services with SUD treatment to achieve greater uptake among those with a need and a desire for contraception.

Agenda

  1. Brief introduction to presenters and overview of MATER (Adina Weissman)
  2. Unintended pregnancy
    1. Data and statistics commonly used – 80-90% unintended
    2. What does unintended mean?
      1. Mistimed
      2. Ambivalent
      3. Unwanted
    3. Stigma/discrimination – “population control”, “burdens on society”, “financial cost of the opioid epidemic”
  3. Contraceptive need
    1. Not every person capable of birth has a need and/or a desire for contraception
    2. Reasons: may not be having sex or not having sex with sperm-producing people, may desire pregnancy, may have concerns about contraceptive methods
    3. One Key Question method: Do you intend to become pregnant in the next year?
    4. UCSF method: Self-Identified Need for Contraception
  4. Types of contraception
    1. Permanent contraception
    2. Long-acting reversible contraceptives
    3. Short-acting reversible contraceptives
    4. “coital” methods
  5. Effectiveness of methods, efforts and costs associated with each
  6. Integration of contraceptive services with SUD treatment to achieve greater uptake among those with a need and a desire for contraception
    1. Co-located and supportive provision
    2. Immediate delivery
    3. Closing the delay/benefit gap

 

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

  1. Define unintended pregnancy as comprised of mistimed, ambivalent, and unwanted pregnancies and the potential for stigma associated with use of the term.
  2. Define the term ‘contraceptive need’ and know how to screen for contraceptive need as it pertains to helping people achieve their desired family planning goals.
  3. Describe the main forms of contraception, their effectiveness with perfect and typical use, and reasons why contraceptive desire and use do not always match.
  4. Identify tools to help people achieve their desired family planning goals.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/13/2024
Course expires: 
06/30/2024
Event starts: 
03/13/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/13/2024 - 1:30pm EDT

The healthcare team will acquire knowledge and tools to help effectively integrate contraceptive services with SUD treatment to achieve greater uptake among those with a need and a desire for contraception.

Agenda

  1. Brief introduction to presenters and overview of MATER (Adina Weissman)
  2. Unintended pregnancy
    1. Data and statistics commonly used – 80-90% unintended
    2. What does unintended mean?
      1. Mistimed
      2. Ambivalent
      3. Unwanted
    3. Stigma/discrimination – “population control”, “burdens on society”, “financial cost of the opioid epidemic”
  3. Contraceptive need
    1. Not every person capable of birth has a need and/or a desire for contraception
    2. Reasons: may not be having sex or not having sex with sperm-producing people, may desire pregnancy, may have concerns about contraceptive methods
    3. One Key Question method: Do you intend to become pregnant in the next year?
    4. UCSF method: Self-Identified Need for Contraception
  4. Types of contraception
    1. Permanent contraception
    2. Long-acting reversible contraceptives
    3. Short-acting reversible contraceptives
    4. “coital” methods
  5. Effectiveness of methods, efforts and costs associated with each
  6. Integration of contraceptive services with SUD treatment to achieve greater uptake among those with a need and a desire for contraception
    1. Co-located and supportive provision
    2. Immediate delivery
    3. Closing the delay/benefit gap
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Dennis Hand, PhD

Adina Weissman, MSW

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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