Planificación familiar desde la consulta de enfermería de atención primaria

Abstract

The contraceptive request, especially by women, combined with the wide variety of contraceptive agents along with the necessity to promote sexual and reproductive health in the couple and community, make it necessary for the Family and Community Nursing to develop a specific approach on her patients. Advances made in the composition as well as in the administration ways, demand a knowledge update in the contraception area. Therefore, the educational purpose of this article is to know the available contraceptive agents, their orders and to promote the contraceptive advice from the family and community nurse through the revision of the main agents like the barrier agent, oral combined agents, gestagen agents and emergency agents.