Contraception

Preview: Long-Acting Reversible Contraception

04/29/2022

In this video, Nisha McKenzie, PA-C, provides a preview of her session "Update on Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARCs)" at our Practical Updates in Primary Care 2022 Virtual Series on May 12, including who can use long-acting reversible contraceptives, how they differ from short-acting reversible contraceptives, what they are indicated for, how to insert them, and tips for difficult insertions.

Nisha McKenzie, PA-C, is the owner and founder of Women's Health Collective (Grand Rapids, Michigan). 

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TRANSCRIPTION:

Nisha McKenzie: Hello everybody. My name is Nisha McKenzie. I am a physician assistant and owner and founder of Women's Health Collective in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For this lecture, we're going to talk about long-acting reversible contraceptives, who can use them, how they differ from short-acting reversible contraceptives, what they are indicated for, how to insert them. We're going to talk about tips for difficult insertions. We're also going to discuss the importance of knowing how they work and how they're different from short-acting methods. A lot of people will come in and ask you... Maybe they'll say, "I've used a birth control pill before and so I can't use any hormones because I did not respond well to that."

So we're going to talk about how that can differ for people and what a long-acting reversible contraceptive, what role that could play for people. We'll also cover shared decision-making and what it looks like with specific examples of how to engage and communicate with your patients. Because there are resources that tell us that shared decision making actually increases patient satisfaction with not only their visit but also the method that they chose. And so we're going to kind of go through all of that and hopefully, help you feel much more comfortable with offering these options for your patients. Thank you.