Injectables Toolkit: Training

Training

As demand for injectables increases, programs need more health care workers who can provide injectables. With proper training, any health care worker can give contraceptive injections safely. In this section, program managers and service providers can review the latest training techniques and curricula for injectables. This section includes a variety of training resources such as general training documents, training models specific to injectables, competency-based training materials, and materials specific to giving safe injections and managing waste.

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Training Models

Title: Contraceptive technology and reproductive health series: Injectable contraceptives

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Family Health International [FHI]

2008

The purpose of this presentation is to familiarize providers of family planning with information on injectable contraceptives. The first section contains general introductory information about injectable contraceptives. The second and third sections cover progestin-only injectables. The...

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Title: Service delivery-based training for long-acting family planning methods: Pathfinder International in Ethiopia

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Pathfinder International

2007

8 p

Long-Acting Family Planning (LAFP) methods, (specifically Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices [IUCDs] and implants) provide uninterrupted protection to women for 3 to 12 years. But they must be inserted by trained providers in a safe clinical environment. With limited facilities and few providers,...

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Competency-Based Training

Title: Role play: "Depo-Provera counseling: Side effects"

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ReproLine

2003

The focus of the role play is on the interaction between the clinician and the client. The clinician needs to assess the relationship between the client’s problems and her use of Depo-Provera. S/he also needs to counsel and reassure the client regarding her misconceptions about Depo-Provera....

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Title: Sample clinical case study: Side effects of Depo-Provera

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ReproLine

2003

Read and analyze this case study individually. When others in your group have finished reading it, answer the questions. When all the groups have finished, we will discuss the case study and the answers each group developed.

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Title: The competency-based approach to training

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JHPIEGO

1995

11 p

Based on the concepts and principles presented in this paper, the key features of JHPIEGO's approach to training include:

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Training Curricula

Title: Basics of community-based family planning: Facilitator and participant guide

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Child Survival Technical Support Plus (CSTS+) Project at Macro International

2009

606 p, 484 p

The Basics of Community-Based Family Planning (FP) curriculum is designed for the implementation of a two-week workshop organised as follows: Week one includes the key elements of a quality community-based FP programme; and week two takes the participant through the process of programme...

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Title: Training and reference guide for a screening checklist to identify women who are not pregnant

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Family Health International [FHI]

2008

56 p

This training and reference guide was developed for family planning service providers interested in using the checklist entitled How to be Reasonably Sure a Client is Not Pregnant, commonly referred to as the “Pregnancy Checklist”. Designed to serve as both a training and...

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Title: Training and reference guide for a screening checklist to initiate DMPA (or NET-EN)

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Family Health International [FHI]

2008

80 p

This training and reference guide was developed for family planning service providers interested in using the Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN), commonly referred to as the “DMPA Checklist”. Designed to serve as both a training...

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Title: Comprehensive reproductive health and family planning training curriculum module 6: DMPA injectable contraceptive

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Pathfinder International

1997

207 p

This training manual is designed for use as part of the comprehensive family planning and reproductive health training of service providers. It is designed to be used to train physicians, nurses, and midwives. This manual is designed to actively involve the participants in the...

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Training Kits & Videos

Title: Expanding services for injectable contraceptives PowerPoint presentation

Attached file: Full Text.ppt

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, The INFO Project

2006

This report can help family planning program managers develop strategies to:

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E-Learning Courses

Title: Contraceptive injectables CME course

Contraception Online

Baylor College of Medicine

In the United States, approximately half of all pregnancies are unintended. Long-acting contraceptive methods, such as injectables provide very effective contraception. Knowledge about the benefits and risks of injectable contraceptives and assessing the appropriateness of...

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Title: Hormonal methods of contraception e-learning course

Global Health E-Learning Center

U.S. Agency for International Development

Hormonal methods offer women a wide range of contraceptive options, for both spacing and limiting births. Hormonal contraceptives are very effective in preventing pregnancy when used correctly and are an important part of a program's contraceptive method mix.

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Safe Injections

Title: Checklist for giving intramuscular injections

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, The INFO Project

2006

Family planning providers can use this checklist to help ensure that injections are safe.

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Title: Injectable contraceptives: Tools for providers

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, The INFO Project

2006

More than twice as many women are using injectable contraceptives today as a decade ago, and the numbers keep growing. Women choose injectables because they are highly effective, long-acting, reversible, and private. At the same time many women do not choose injectables or stop using them because...

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Title: Population Reports: Expanding services for injectables: Give injections and dispose of waste safely

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, The INFO Project

2006

24 p

This report can help family planning program managers develop strategies to:

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Title: Best infection control practices for skin-piercing intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular needle injections

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

World Health Organization [WHO]

2001

2 p

Eliminating unnecessary injections is the highest priority towards preventing injection-associated infections. When injections are medically indicated they should be administered safely. These best practices are measures that have been determined through scientific...

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Title: Giving safe injections: Using auto-disable syringes for immunization

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health [PATH]

2001

98 p

This manual is for health wokers who inject vaccines. Each of the five chapters covers a different lesson related to the safe injection of vaccine.

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Title: Introducing autodisposable syringes and sharps disposal containers with DMPA

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health [PATH]

2001

10 p

As part of USAID’s commitment to ensuring quality in service delivery programs, the agency will soon begin supplying auto-disable (AD) syringes and sharps disposal containers with shipments of the injectable contraceptive DMPA (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate) or Depo-...

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Title: Comprehensive family planning and reproductive health training curriculum module 2: Infection prevention

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Pathfinder International

1997

116 p

This training manual is designed for use as part of the comprehensive family planning and reproductive health training of service providers. It is designed to be used to train physicians, nurses and midwives. This manual is designed to actively involve the participants in...

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Title: Infection prevention online course

EngenderHealth

This course is designed to help health care providers, supervisors of health care facilities, medical students, and nursing students strengthen infection prevention practices in low-resource settings.

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Managing Waste

Title: Training health workers in the management of sharps waste

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health [PATH]

2005

108 p

The purpose of these materials is for use in training health workers in the management of sharps waste. Resources currently exist for policymakers and managers, but little has been developed for injection providers and waste handlers to help improve injection safety practices at the ...

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General Training Resources

Title: Programming for training in FP/RH

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

EngenderHealth,The ACQUIRE Project

2008

4 p

This document provides a brief overview of the ACQUIRE Project’s approach to training under theoverall ACQUIRE Program Model for FP/RH Service Delivery. This model of training reflects a comprehensive and holistic view that considers both the systems in which training...

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Title: Programming for training: A resource package for trainers, program managers, and supervisors of reproductive health and family planning programs

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EngenderHealth, The ACQUIRE Project

2008

183 p

This resource package contains essential information and tools for training health care providers in reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP). It is intended for use by: (1) program managers and staff implementing RH/FP programs; and (2) trainers in RH/FP service delivery. It...

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Title: Helping your patients decide: Making informed health choices about hormonal contraception

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals [ARHP]

2006

22 p

With the exception of a fictional name, the following case study reflects actual events. Alissa Smith is a 25-year-old woman with three children who does not currently desire additional children. She has tried a number of contraceptive methods that did not fit her needs and values: She developed...

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Title: Tips for trainers

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

JHPIEGO

MAQWeb

2006

30 p

Place Holder

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Title: Choices in family planning: Informed and voluntary decision-making

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

EngenderHealth

2003

68 p

EngenderHealth's tool kit of related job aids is designed to help users support individuals in making informed and voluntary family planning decisions. The first volume in the series "Realizing Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health Services," Choices in Family Planning: Informed and...

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Title: Training works! What you need to know about managing, designing, delivering, and evaluating group-based training

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

JHPIEGO

IntraHealth International

Family Health International [FHI]

Population Leadership Program

Training Resource Group [TRG]

2003

50 p

Effective training can help family planning providers improve their service delivery performance. Intended for anyone involved in the management, design, delivery, or evaluation of group-based training, this handbook describes the steps necessary at each training stage to ensure a high-...

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Title: Transfer of learning: A guide for strengthening the performance of health care workers

Attached file: Full Text.pdf

JHPIEGO

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

Program for International Training in Health [INTRAH]

PRIME Project

2002

33 p

Clinical knowledge and skills are critical factors in sustaining quality health care services. However, there are many factors which influence the ability of providers to apply these skills when offering services. This handbook shares strategies and techniques that those involved in training...

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Title: Organization of a FP training site, in: Breast and pelvic examination course notebook for trainers

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JHPIEGO

2000

6 p

Student Learning Centers (SLC), also known as learning laboratories or demonstration rooms, are places where learners in preservice education can observe demonstrations with models, practice together with models and/or role plays and develop skill competency. Anatomic models and role...

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