On a recent weekday, a nurse midwife and an advanced practice registered nurse at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England sat hunched over two papayas on a medical table. The APRN slid a long ...
Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is a painful procedure often conducted without analgesia. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a paracervical block (PCB) as the mode of pain relief during MVA ...
Now that Connecticut allows advanced practice clinicians to perform aspiration abortions, some nurses have begun learning the procedure. On a recent weekday, a nurse midwife and an advanced practice ...