Teen Pregnancy on the rise: Call for collective action

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Around the world, the rate of teen pregnancy is on the rise.  In the ASEAN region, the Philippines has the third highest teen pregnancy rate and it is only in the Philippines where the rate in teen pregnancy has increased. If the future of a country lies in the hands of its young people, what are the long term implications of the issue of teen pregnancy? What are the implications to health and lives of young mothers? Is there really cause for alarm?  

Nursing the Reproductive Health Bill: Pro-Mom, Pro-Life

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By Jesther Rowen Bautista On 25 Nov, 2010
Original Link: http://lormahighlights.com/2010/11/reproductivehealthbill/

Attending to mothers in the labor room is a common role for the graduating student-nurse. While waiting inside the room, I often ask my clients whether it is their first time to have a baby or not.

Often, patients in the delivery room are multi-parous(has delivered more than one child). Jokingly, I ask them why they want more children. I get various answers in return, some of them attuned to boredom, ‘can’t get enough’, accidents in bed and to some ‘the more the merrier’.

The Scottish Career Framework for Nursing in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Nurses are increasingly involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care to individuals within a sexual and reproductive health setting. This care will involve the management of complex emotional and physical conditions and as such requires advanced level communication skills, clinical competence underpinned by a sound education and research base and delivered through strong and visible leadership. 

The development of this Career Framework for Nursing in Sexual and Reproductive Health will assist senior nurses and service leads identify the practice and competence required to provide a high quality of care and allow for the benchmarking of existing roles. 

Nurse Practitioners and sexual and reproductive health services: An analysis of supply and demand

By Diana Taylor

I recently had the pleasure of serving as co-author to a new report from the RAND Corporation, titled Nurse Practitioners and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: An Analysis of Supply and Demand.

A brief summary: Current trends in supply and demand for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, particularly for low-income individuals, suggest a growing gap in the next decade, with demand outstripping supply of competent health professionals. The reasons for this gap are tied less to the production of clinicians overall and more to a reduced production of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) trained to deliver SRH care.

PSORHN's first public appearance at the World Population Day

Manila, Philippines - The Philippine Society of Reproductive Health Nurses was invited by the Philippine Commission on Population to join in this year's celebration of the World Population Day this July 11, 2013.

This year the World Population Day will focus on the growing concern relating to teen pregnancies in the Philippines.