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CEUs Offered: 3 contact hours

1. Accurately describe the full range of contraceptive methods
2. Elicit client preferences about contraceptive methods
3. Use client-centered counseling techniques to help clients identify a method that best fits their needs and preferences

1. Describe how to apply principles of shared decision-making to contraceptive counseling
2. Describe techniques to present scientific data with clarity, using a patient-centered approach
3. Discuss how to address common challenging scenarios in contraceptive counseling

1. Explain bleeding changes associated with each LARC method
2. Demonstrate familiarity with use of the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use
3. Identify testing required prior to LARC placement
4. Describe barriers and solutions to same-day placement of LARC methods

CEUs Offered: 1 contact hour

1. Explain the purpose of the QFP Recommendations
2. Describe the scope of family planning, related preventive health, and other preventive services as outlined in the QFP
3. Put into practice the quality counseling principles outlined in the QFP

PATH Questions:

1. Do you think you might like to have (more) children at some point?
2. ​When do you think that might be?
3. How important is it to you to prevent pregnancy (until then)?

1. Describe how bias may impact patients’ experience of care
2. Demonstrate practical strategies to mitigate the impacts of bias
3. Utilize patient-centered counseling approaches to support patients who want contraception access information about the full range of options and select their method of choice

CEUs Offered: 1 contact hours

1. Identify birth control methods coming to market
2. Describe how long patients can safely use LARC methods
3. Explain what new methods are currently under study

1. Support sites with development of a comprehensive strategy to improve contraceptive access
2. Identify the 4 best practices based on a review of the literature and established guidelines

1. Describe how to apply
2. Explain the multifaceted definition of trauma-informed care
3. Define trauma, identify potentially traumatic events, and give examples of the range of experiences that can cause trauma
4. Explain the significance of trauma in health care, and identify components of a health care visit that could be perceived as dangerous for traumatized adolescents

1. Demonstrate strategies for IUD and implant device insertion and removal, including difficult cases
2. Demonstrate instructing patients to self-administer DMPA-SC