The Reproductive and Sexual Health - Clinical Accreditation Program: Clinical Placement course is designed for nurses and midwives who wish to gain hands-on experience in the specialty of reproductive and sexual health.
This course requires participants to complete a clinical skills workshop and then attend 32 hours of clinical placement at a Family Planning Australia clinic.
This blended course for midwives is designed to help enhance your current knowledge and technique in cervical screening. It has been developed by Family Planning Australia and funded by the Cancer Institute NSW with the aim to increase cervical screening knowledge and skills for midwives in NSW.
This course provides professional development for GPs, nurses and midwives who want to update their knowledge about the provision of medical abortion in Australia, with a focus on NSW. Delivered online clinicians can complete the course in a flexible way to suit their learning needs. Topics covered include:
Learn or refresh your knowledge about the contraceptive implant, Implanon NXT and the skills to safely insert and remove the device. This combination of online self-paced learning and face to face, supervised hands on training and assessment is suitable both as an introduction for new inserters or a refresher.
Content includes:
Participants Charter and Participant Responsibility in Education and Training conducted by Family Planning NSW
Fertility Awareness Based (FAB) methods of contraception (sometimes called Natural Family Planning methods) are based on identifying the fertile days of the menstrual cycle in order to avoid a pregnancy.
Contraception is necessary if you wish to avoid an unintended pregnancy. Several methods of contraception are available - check out this factsheet to find out more information.
If you are sexually active, it is important to have regular visits to a health practitioner to have sexual health checks, and to discuss reproductive and sexual health issues. Read this factsheet to learn all the reasons why.
It's important that the person you're with gives their consent to the level of intimacy you have with them. Find out more about consent and how to deal with situations where consent isn't clearly stated.
If you’re experiencing an unintended pregnancy and have decided to continue the pregnancy, this fact sheet is for you.