Strategies

Provide information about contraception and protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in classroom or community settings

Provide condoms free of charge or at a reduced cost in community and school-based settings

Use regulation to extend nurse practitioners’ (NPs’) scope of practice to provide care to the full scope of their training and skills without physician oversight, especially for primary care

Improve work environments for nurses via establishment of strong nursing leadership, organizational support, etc.

Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates

Shift the way health care organizations approach trauma by adopting universal trauma precautions and providing trauma-specific care