Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide

Author:   Diane Schadewald ,  Ursula Pritham ,  Ellis Youngkin, PhD, RNC, WHCNP, ARNP ,  Marcia Davis
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Edition:   5th edition
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9780135659663


Pages:   896
Publication Date:   01 July 2021
Format:   Paperback
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For women's health and nurse practitioner courses. An accessible handbook for women's health, for both students and primary health care providers Building on the success of the previous edition, Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide is an easy-to-reference resource meeting the needs of providers who offer women more than basic reproductive health care. It covers traditional reproductive and gynecologic topics, as well as health issues in general medical, psychosocial, developmental, and political realms. Updated with the latest practice standards, the 5th edition has a new chapter on substance use disorders and expanded coverage of complementary therapies and issues affecting lesbian, bisexual, and transgender populations.

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Author:   Diane Schadewald ,  Ursula Pritham ,  Ellis Youngkin, PhD, RNC, WHCNP, ARNP ,  Marcia Davis
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   5th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 10.00cm , Height: 10.00cm , Length: 10.00cm
Weight:   1.740kg
ISBN:  

9780135659663


ISBN 10:   0135659663
Pages:   896
Publication Date:   01 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents PART I: WOMEN, HEALTH, AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Access to Women's Health Care in the United States: Affordability, Equity, Rights Women's Development into the 21st Century Epidemiology, Diagnostic Methods, and Procedures for Women's Health Assessing Adolescent Women's Health Assessing Adult Women's Health Assessing Older Women's Health PART II: PROMOTION OF WELLNESS FOR WOMEN Women and Sexuality Health Needs of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations Health Needs of Women with Disabilities Integrating Wellness: Complementary Health Approaches and Women's Health PART III: PROMOTION OF GYNECOLOGIC HEALTH CARE Menstruation and Related Problems and Concerns Managing Contraception and Family Planning Infertility Vaginitis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Women and HIV Common Gynecologic Pelvic Disorders Breast Health The Menopausal Transition PART IV: PROMOTION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE DURING PREGNANCY Promotion of Women's Health Care During Pregnancy Maternal Conditions Impacting Risk in Pregnancy Assessing Fetal Well-Being Postpartum and Lactation PART V: PRIMARY CARE CONDITIONS AFFECTING WOMEN'S HEALTH Common Medical Problems: Cardiovascular Through Hematological Disorders Common Medical Problems: Musculoskeletal Injuries Through Urinary Tract Disorders Psychosocial Health Concerns for Women Substance Use Disorders and Women Appendices Emergency Childbirth and Immediate Care of the Newborn Elective Termination of Pregnancy Selected Screening Tools for Women's Health Billing and Coding in Women's Health Selected Laboratory Values Federal Agencies Concerned with Women's Health

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About our authors Dr. Diane Schadewald is a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) College of Nursing, where she has been since August 2013. Prior to her work at UWM she was a clinical assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. Dr. Schadewald received her Doctor of Nursing practice in 2008 from the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. She completed her Master of Science in nursing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1992. She has been a board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP) and family nurse practitioner (FNP) since 1993 and has worked in family practice or obstetric and gynecologic settings on a full- or part-time basis since becoming certified. Dr. Schadewald was a coauthor of the 4th edition of Women’s Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide, as well as being an author or coauthor of articles related to women’s health on topics of contraception, preconceptual health and postpartum depression. She has also been recognized by the National Certification Corporation for her work in developing test items for the WHNP certification exam. Dr. Schadewald has been active in a number of professional nursing organizations, including Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, Sigma Theta Tau International, Metro Milwaukee Nurse Practitioners and the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She is also a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and has served as the chair and cochair of NONPF’s Sexual and Reproductive Health SIG. Dr. Ursula A. Pritham was on faculty most recently as associate professor and graduate program director at the School of Nursing, Georgia Southern University (GSU), in Statesboro, GA. She was full time at GSU from August 2011 to July 2017 until she resigned to assist her family by caring for her newborn granddaughter on a full-time basis. While caring for her granddaughter during infancy and toddlerhood, Dr. Pritham taught part time online for GSU from January to May 2018 and has continued her scholarly work by developing manuscripts for journals as well as coediting the 5th edition of Women’s Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide. She plans to return to academia for the 2019/2020 academic year. Before moving to Georgia in 2011, she was faculty at the University of Maine (UM), School of Nursing, in Orono, ME, where she taught for 19 years. During her last year at UM, she also served as the graduate program coordinator. Dr. Pritham completed a Master of Education at the University of Southern California, a Master of Science in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, and a PhD in nursing and education at UM. Her dissertation was on the topic of opioid dependence in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome. She has published and presented on the topic of opioid dependency in pregnancy and length of stay for neonatal abstinence syndrome and breastfeeding promotion to manage neonatal abstinence syndrome. Dr. Pritham is board certified as a women’s health and family nurse practitioner and has practiced as such in Maine and Georgia. She is also a sexual assault nurse examiner, having worked for the Statesboro Regional Sexual Assault Center, Statesboro, GA.

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