COUNSELLING CLIENT ON VOLUNTARY SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION (VCS)

  1. Establish rapport
  2. Make client comfortable
  3. Take reproductive history of client
  4. Take basic medical and surgical history of client
  5. Ask client/couple what they know about voluntary surgical contraception
  6. Ask if they know somebody who has had voluntary surgical contraception
  7. Tell client/couple how about voluntary surgical contraception
  8. Tell client/couple about how procedure is carried out
  9. Encourage client/couple to ask questions
  10. Answer questions and dispel rumours
  11. Explain to client/couple the need for laboratory examination before procedure
  12. Tell client/couple the need to sign consent
  13. Provide client/couple with back up method
  14. Refer client/couple to nearest facility that offers voluntary surgical contraception
  15. Thank client/couple
  16. Record information given and received in client’s card

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