Course Description

Life-saving reproductive health care is under attack. In this class, we will discuss how the current assault on women’s and gender oppressed people’s reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy fits within the wider history of reproductive health and health care in the U.S. The course will review the overwhelming evidence that reproductive health care is life-saving care, and it will examine the health disparities that highlight the need for nurses to advocate for health justice, gender justice, and racial justice simultaneously. Finally, we will discuss why resisting current attacks on reproductive health care is essential to advancing wider efforts to protect democracy and to advance health and economic justice.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify historical and contemporary instances of reproductive oppression in the U.S. and the threat it poses to patients’ health
• Identify evidence that reproductive care is safe and essential health care
• Articulate how reproductive justice connects with other forms of patient advocacy and movements for social and economic justice
• Explain how nurses can advocate for reproductive justice

Instructor:

Anna Carella

Course Information:

This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits.

After registering, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom class via email. Zoom invitations will be sent approximately 1 week prior to the class. It is important that you respond to the invitation and register for the Zoom class prior to the day of the class.

Registrations will close for these classes at 9am on the prior business day.

Dates and times:

• Monday, November 4 — 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET

CE courses are free to National Nurses United members. Classes are only offered to direct-care and staff RNs.