The Insanity of Reproductive Health

Photo credit: http://assistasia.files.wordpress.com

By featured writer Reyann Red

I’m a nurse working in a government hospital, and for most days how I wish I could shove the placentas of those women who give birth in front of those in the Church and everybody who are against family planning, how I wish that they were working in government hospitals all over the country and feel the desperation, insanity and foolishness of the blindness these people give to our leaders with regard to the basic truth that everybody has the right to choose and decide for themselves, hence the right to choose to space the number of children they will have.

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

Photo credit: http://www.stylespygirl.com

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’.

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.