Providing Abortion Care: A Professional Toolkit

Providing Abortion Care: A Professional Toolkit for Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants APCToolkit COMPLETEBOOK What is the APC Toolkit? The APC Toolkit is a professional guide for APCs in the United States who are either currently providing or would like to offer abortion care within their practice. The information provided is based on specific definitions of United States professional disciplines, organizations, and legislative/regulatory systems. However, the APC Toolkit also offers background information, resources, and guidelines for professional advancement that could be adapted to other health care systems. The APC Toolkit helps clinicians compile crucial evidence and documentation to support the integration of early abortion care as an essential part of women’s health care services. It guides APCs in the development of a professional portfolio that documents their basic and their abortion specialty education, knowledge, and training and the clinical and professional standards they use in providing safe care. It includes essential information and statistics about abortion care and access, professional standards and competencies, and the roles of state and national professional organizations and state licensing boards. Case studies demonstrating the establishment of abortion care as within the APC scope of practice provide strategies for success.