Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Expert Nurses in Abortion Care Provision

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Expert Nurses in Abortion Care Provision

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Monica McLemore, RN, MPH, PhD , School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Amy J. Levi, RN, PhD, CNM, WHNP-BC, FACNM, FAAN , College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Evelyn Angel James, MSN, CNM , Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Discipline: Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • To articulate recruitment strategies for nurses in abortion care provision
  • To describe retention strategies for nurses in abortion care provision
  • To discuss professional issues in abortion care provision with colleagues

    • Submission Description:
    A sub-set of interviews from a qualitative study (N=25) designed to identify the continuum between conscientious objectors and designated staff in the nursing care of women seeking abortions will be presented. We sought to gain a deeper understanding of processes that nurses use when making decisions in ethically challenging situations, using abortion as the clinical context. In these interviews half of the nurses (N=12) spoke about recruitment and retention strategies for nurses in abortion care.

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