Determining Your Client’s Need for Services and Discussing Reproductive Goals eLearning

This eLearning module introduces the clinical pathway presented in Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs (QFP). This module also explains how to apply the clinical pathway, including how to discuss a client's reproductive goals and assess whether a client needs other services. Finally, the module provides practical strategies for determining the needs of clients of reproductive age and includes activities, videos, and scenarios.

Note: As of September 2020, this module replaced the Putting the QFP into Practice Series: How to Begin—Determining the Client’s Need for Services Webinar.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain how the clinical pathway described in Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs (QFP) can be used as a framework to determine a client’s need for services
• Identify the range of family planning needs that clients may have, depending on their individual characteristics
• Assess a client’s attitudes toward becoming a parent in order to identify unmet needs related to preventing or achieving pregnancy
• Transition from addressing a client’s stated need to exploring their need for additional family planning and related preventive health services

Time: 1 hour

Continuing Education: 1.0 contact hours

There is no fee for a continuing nursing education (CNE) certificate upon successful completion of this activity.

This nursing continuing professional development activity has been approved for a maximum of 1 contact hour by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Activity # RHNTC19.

JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Date of Last Review: July 2024
Date of Expiration: December 2026

Certificate of Completion: Yes- available after completing the evaluation and completing the entire eLearning course

Other Modules In This Series

Introduction to the Quality Family Planning Recommendations eLearning 
Introduction to Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology eLearning 
Pregnancy Testing and Counseling eLearning 
Contraceptive Methods and Guidelines for Their Use eLearning 
Client-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Skills eLearning 
Support for Achieving a Healthy Pregnancy eLearning 
Sexually Transmitted Infections Services eLearning