My Life, My Plan: Delaware’s Reproductive Life Planning for Teens

Reproductive Life Plan Counseling and Effective Contraceptive Use among Urban Women Utilizing Title X Services

“…Unfortunately, this training tool was removed from the internet when Title X guidelines were updated in April of 2014, after the study period closed. This training was supplemented with specialized training on RLPC using examples of RLPC worksheets drawn from the CDC and the Delaware Healthy Mothers and Infants Consortium (CDC, 2012;Noyes & Savin, 2012). Providers were trained to open a dialogue with patients about their future life plans and the impact of pregnancy and parenthood on those plans.…”

Reproductive Life Planning: A Concept Analysis

“…Individuals may not have access to appropriate contraception, however, for financial or social reasons. Regardless of the life situation of a woman, the provision of reproductive life planning‐based information can increase knowledge of a woman's choices and how to achieve them (Noyes & Savin, , ; Stern, Larsson, Kristiansson, & Tyden, ). As such, reproductive life planning is a precursor to preconception care, a framework in which risks and behaviors that are potentially harmful to the mother or infant are addressed, which guides the individual to optimal pregnancy outcomes (Biermann, Dunlop, Brady, Dubin, & Brann, ; Files et al., ; Witt & Kelly, ).…”

“…In cases in which reproductive coercion occurs with partner violence, the nurse should work with the prescriber to select contraceptive methods that cannot be tampered with or sabotaged, such as subdermal implants (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ; Secura, Allsworth, Madden, Mullersman, & Peipert, ). Nurses should also take an active role in statewide initiatives related to preconception care and reproductive life planning (Noyes & Savin, , ). Finally, nurse leaders, educators, and researchers can promote the use of reproductive life planning as a necessary and integral component of the individual's health continuum (Steiner, Finocchario‐Kessler, & Dariotis, ; Witt & Kelly, ).…”