Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in Gynecologic Settings - Softcover

Hawkins RN PhD WHNP-BC FAAN FAANP, Joellen W.; Roberto-Nichols BS APRN-C, Diane M.; Stanley-Haney MA APRN-C, J. Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826129625 ISBN 13: 9780826129628

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2011

Synopsis

This textbook provides the busy clinician with a 'one stop' comprehensive guide to women's health that includes essential components of the history, diagnostic workup, treatment, and management guidelines for most common health issues and problems specific to providing gynecologic care to women. Clinicians will welcome the updated clinical content and additional resources and educational recommendations.

From the Forward by R. Mimi Secor, MS, MEd, FNP-BC, FAANP
Family Nurse Practitioner/Consultant, Specializing in Women's Health
National NP Radio Host for ReachMD "Partners in Practice

This landmark 10th edition of a highly respected classic and best-selling reference provides current guidelines for primary care management of common gynecological conditions across the age span. The fully revised new edition provides well-organized, concise, and easier-to-access evidence-based practice guidelines for use in community and ambulatory settings. It has been written by nurse practitioners with over 90 years of combined experience in women's health, and integrates the knowledge of noted experts for each topic.

This 10th edition offers new information for all guidelines and presents essential new guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, medical abortion, breast cancer screening and other breast conditions, osteoporosis, menopause, incontinence, sexual dysfunction, complementary and alternative therapies, smoking cessation, abuse and violence screening, abuse screening for disabled women, and Pap, PCOS, and preconception care. The guide also contains an entirely new chapter on annual well woman visits, an enhanced mental health chapter detailing discontinuation of SSRIs/SNRIs, recent guidelines from the World Health Organization regarding contraception, and more. This book will be of value to graduate nursing programs, all nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives.

Key Features:

• Reflects "best practice" standards of care empirically proven to improve patient outcomes by at least 28%
• Provides quick and easy access to crucial clinical information through use of an intuitive alpha organization, a consistent format, and new spiral binding
• Contains new "Well Woman Annual Visit" chapter
• Patient education handouts are included in book AND are available in printable PDF format online
• Contains completely new bibliographies reflecting the latest literature and evidence-based practice, and relevant websites

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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About the Author:

Joellen W. Hawkins, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC-E, FAAN, FAANP, practiced as an OB/GYN women’s health care nurse practitioner for 36 years. She was a professor in the School of Nursing, University of Connecticut at Storrs for 5 years, and at Boston College Connell School of Nursing from 1975 to 1978 and 1983 to 2008. Practice sites included 5 years at the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (Storrs); 16 years at Crittenton Hastings House Reproductive Health Services, Brighton, Massachusetts (1984 to 2000); 6 years at the Women’s Clinic, Pine Street Inn, Boston (2000–2006); and 9 years at Sydney Borum Community Health Center, Boston (2000–2009). From 2008 to the present, she has been writer-in-residence, Simmons College School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Boston, and from 2013 to the present, she has been an editor of faculty manuscripts prior to their submission to a journal and editor of book chapters written by faculty members of the College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Diane M. Roberto-Nichols, BS, APRN-C, is a nurse practitioner in both women’s health and adult medicine. She has practiced as an OB/GYN nurse practitioner for more than 30 years. She recently retired from Ellington OB/GYN Associates in Ellington, Connecticut, and from the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (Storrs). The focus of her practice has been on women’s health, starting as coordinator of the Women’s Health Clinic at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she was instrumental in making contraception and confidential health care available to female students. She also co-developed a protocol and implemented an assault crisis center for sexually and physically abused students at the university, as well as co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. She continues to be active in women’s health issues and to provide education to women throughout their life span.

J. Lynn Stanley-Haney, MA, APRN-C, is an adult medicine nurse practitioner with special practice areas that include gynecology and psychiatry. Until recently, she worked in both a private OB/GYN practice and a private psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic medication management practice. Of late, she has limited her work to her own private practice in psychiatry but remains keenly interested in, and an advocate for, quality care in the areas of women’s health and access to health care, which has been her longtime area of passion and concentrated effort. As the director of nursing for the University of Connecticut Student Health Services, she worked closely with the university’s Women’s Health Clinic in ensuring quality of care, in addition to providing direct clinical care to women. Along with her longtime colleague and co-author, Diane M. Roberto-Nichols, she co-developed and implemented a 24-hour sexual assault crisis service for physically abused and sexually assaulted women students. Together, they also co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. Since leaving the university, she has worked to implement and manage, as well as maintain, a practice in state-funded, school-based health clinics. Currently, in addition to her clinical practice, she supports and works with several organizations that advocate for women and girls.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0826129625
• ISBN 13: 9780826129628
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 496