Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to examine the trends and issues in the health and health care of patients in relation to reproductive health and pelvic exams; and to build on the nurse’s knowledge and skills in reproductive health to enable them to offer a quality, client/woman-centred cervical cancer screening and STI testing, for whom services are inadequate or inaccessible. A theoretical framework based on the social determinants of health provides the foundation for learning the skills and information required to provide pelvic exams for clients. Included is a skills workshop to provide participants with the opportunity to learn and practice: inspection of external genitalia, vaginal speculum insertion, bimanual examination, Pap smear techniques, and STI testing.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
1.5
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program students will be able to:
- Identify current trends and issues related to our patients health in relation to reproductive health.
- Describe the impacts of the social determinants of health on our patients in relation to reproductive health.
- Recognize the diversity of patients’ experiences.
- Describe the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cervical cancer.
- Define the relationship between Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and cervical cancer.
- Demonstrate competency in the performance of pelvic examinations, cervical cancer testing, testing for STI’s.
- Describe your role as a health care provider in the follow up of abnormal findings, with respect to the BC Cancer Agency and the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Effective as of Fall 2016
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