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Abortion Training Experts Launch California’s Reproductive Health Service Corps

Abortion Training Experts Launch California’s Reproductive Health Service Corps

A consortium of leaders in sexual and reproductive health is launching California’s Reproductive Health Service Corps (RHSC), an unprecedented statewide initiative to improve access to abortion care and training and diversify the state’s reproductive health workforce.
Centering Health Equity: An Organizational Update

Centering Health Equity: An Organizational Update

NSRH recently partnered with Dr. Kamryn Lee at Radically Inclusive Consulting Collective to create a guide for our education team that will ground our materials, events and resources in a health equity framework.
North Carolina’s Senate Bill 20 Threatens Reproductive Access

North Carolina’s Senate Bill 20 Threatens Reproductive Access

Jill Sergison (she/her), a certified nurse-midwife, who has done global reproductive clinical research & sexual health advocacy, submitted the following op-ed.
2023 KE Award Recipient

2023 KE Award Recipient

Outside of school I serve as a birth and postpartum doula, with the organization Homeland Heart. I feel that my past experiences solely cultivated my desire for nursing, reproductive health justice, and women’s health. Which is why I aspire to become a Certified Nurse-Midwife.
Welcoming our 2023 TAC Residents

Welcoming our 2023 TAC Residents

NSRH is excited to announce the start of the second year of our Training in Abortion Care Residency. This residency provides nurses with abortion clinical and advocacy training.
Reproductive Justice for Marginalized Communities: The Fight for Equity in Healthcare

Reproductive Justice for Marginalized Communities: The Fight for Equity in Healthcare

Centering the experiences of marginalized communities is essential to providing unbiased care for patients. Healthcare workers must understand the scope of disparities in reproductive care while working consistently to dismantle their own underlying prejudices.
Meet Jace Anderson, NSRH's Instructional Design Manager!

Meet Jace Anderson, NSRH's Instructional Design Manager!

Jace (she/her) is a Registered Nurse with experience working with inpatient populations in Labor & Delivery, Anterpartum, Postpartum, and Orthopedics. She began her path towards nursing after graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies.
Trustworthy: Our Edges are Showing

Trustworthy: Our Edges are Showing

In this blog, NSRH's Executive Director, Lina Buffington, speaks to what makes an organization trustworthy and where humans can sometimes fall short.
TBD Health: At-Home STI Testing on Your Terms

TBD Health: At-Home STI Testing on Your Terms

TBD Health is a healthcare company that was founded on the philosophy that every individual has the right to sexual healthcare that is accessible, sex-positive, and non-judgmental. Rizalyn Delgado, a nurse practitioner with TBD Health, discusses the importance of addressing STI stigma as well as the…
Share Your Rx - Join the Podcast Revolution!

Share Your Rx - Join the Podcast Revolution!

Hannah Cutts (she/her), NSRH member & nurse midwife, is on a mission to help uplift the voices & perspectives of BIPOC, queer, nonbinary, trans folks, & people who speak a language other than English through the "Share your Rx" podcast. By creating a reservoir of script examples shaped by SRH…
1:1 with UPenn Student Chapter Leader Tara Tiepel

1:1 with UPenn Student Chapter Leader Tara Tiepel

Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Rosie Laine, recently sat down with one of our NSRH Student Chapter Presidents, Tara Teipel. Tara (she/her) is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing a BSN at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. U Penn’s student chapter has over 100 members,…
What We Need to Remember this National Hispanic Nurses Day

What We Need to Remember this National Hispanic Nurses Day

"So, as we celebrate Bisexuality awareness week, Latinx heritage month, and National Hispanic Nurses Day, I urge you to pay special attention to the role American nurses have played in establishing the state of nursing in Latin America. I also caution us from celebrating the myth of homogenized,…
Supporting Survivors

Supporting Survivors

Anna Brown (she/her) is an NSRH member and our new Training in Abortion Care (TAC) Program Director! Outside of NSRH, she is also a forensic nurse examiner. We chatted with her about the role of sexual assault and forensic nurse examiners, providing trauma-informed care, and how nurses can better…
Midwifing the Midwife

Midwifing the Midwife

Lodz Joseph (she/her) is a certified nurse midwife (CNM) who works in Southwestern Georgia. We caught up with her to talk about her journey into midwifery, her experience being a midwife while pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her advice for nurses and midwives to be better patient…
From Patient to Abortion Equity Provider

From Patient to Abortion Equity Provider

Ashia George, RN is an abortion care nurse, labor and delivery nurse, board member at Abortion Care Network, and co-leader for the Michigan cluster of Reproductive Health Access project. This month, we talked to Ashia about her journey into the SRH field, abortion equity, and the ways COVID-19 has…