- Establish rapport
- Make client comfortable
- Take reproductive history of client
- Take basic medical and surgical history of client
- Ask client/couple what they know about voluntary surgical contraception
- Ask if they know somebody who has had voluntary surgical contraception
- Tell client/couple how about voluntary surgical contraception
- Tell client/couple about how procedure is carried out
- Encourage client/couple to ask questions
- Answer questions and dispel rumours
- Explain to client/couple the need for laboratory examination before procedure
- Tell client/couple the need to sign consent
- Provide client/couple with back up method
- Refer client/couple to nearest facility that offers voluntary surgical contraception
- Thank client/couple
- Record information given and received in client’s card