Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
Founded in 2009, Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health (NSRH) provides students, nurses and midwives with education and resources to become skilled care providers and social change agents in sexual and reproductive health and justice.
We envision a world in which all people have access to just and dignified full-spectrum reproductive and sexual health care.
Mission
NSRH is a collaborative, nationwide organization that works to promote sexual health and reproductive rights through advocacy, activism, provider education and training. NSRH welcomes any undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral level nursing student who is interested in ensuring that nurses are fully trained to meet the reproductive health care needs of patients and their families.
Email nsrh.penn@gmail.com if you have any questions or want to join the list serve!
A group of Penn NSRH traveled to New York City on May 19, 2018 for a training on nurse midwife & nurse practitioner provision of medication abortion. The workshop covered medical abortion basics, first trimester ultrasound for abortion care, difficult case studies, and scope of practice issues/questions -- things we don't get enough education about in school.
A group of registered nurses, including members of Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health (NSRH) and Penn Nursing alumni, published an op-ed supporting every individual’s right to access abortion care, independent of income.
Read the full article on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
Penn nursing students participated in a workshop to learn how aspiration abortion is done. The papaya is shaped similarly to a pregnant uterus, and the contents can be removed through a cannula attached to a manual vacuum aspirator.