Midwifery Academy · MINC-MW-007
Family Planning Counselling and Method Provision
Family Planning Counselling and Method Provision was selected because it addresses an important midwifery responsibility with direct implications for patient safety, continuity and quality of care. The module progresses from foundational concepts through assessment, midwifery action, communication, evaluation and an integrated practice-improvement exercise.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Unmet need and discontinuation arise when counselling is coercive, incomplete or poorly matched to medical eligibility and reproductive intentions. Midwives require rights-based method counselling and follow-up skills.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to provide voluntary person-centred counselling.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to apply medical eligibility principles within scope.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to support correct method use and side-effect management.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to protect privacy and reproductive rights.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to document and arrange follow-up.
Units
- Rights-based family planning (60 min)
- Informed and voluntary choice (60 min)
- Client-centred counselling process (60 min)
- Reproductive intentions and life-course needs (60 min)
- Medical history and pregnancy exclusion (60 min)
- WHO medical eligibility principles (60 min)
- Effectiveness and method comparison (60 min)
- Fertility-awareness methods (60 min)
- Lactational amenorrhoea method (60 min)
- Male and female condoms (60 min)
- Combined oral contraceptives (60 min)
- Progestin-only pills (60 min)
- Emergency contraception (60 min)
- Combined injectable contraception awareness (60 min)
- Progestin-only injectables (60 min)
- Contraceptive implants (60 min)
- Copper-bearing intrauterine devices (60 min)
- Levonorgestrel intrauterine systems (60 min)
- Permanent contraception counselling (60 min)
- Postpartum family planning (60 min)
- Post-abortion family planning (60 min)
- Family planning for adolescents (60 min)
- Family planning and HIV (60 min)
- Family planning with hypertension (60 min)
- Family planning with diabetes (60 min)
- Family planning during breastfeeding (60 min)
- Method initiation and instructions (60 min)
- Managing common side effects (60 min)
- Warning signs and complications (60 min)
- Switching and discontinuing methods (60 min)
- Missed pills and late injections (60 min)
- Return to fertility (60 min)
- Dual protection and STI prevention (60 min)
- Condom demonstration and negotiation (60 min)
- Antenatal investigations in method provision (60 min)
- Documentation and commodity records (60 min)
- Follow-up and continuity (60 min)
- Addressing myths and misinformation (60 min)
- Quality, privacy and non-discrimination (60 min)
- Integrated counselling and method-choice case (60 min)
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