Women’s Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing

Replete with vital information, the second edition of this authoritative women’s health text provides graduate nursing students and nurse practitioners with the resources to deliver optimal health to women of all ages. Edited by a team of highly distinguished clinicians, scholars, and educators, chapters retain a distinctive sociocultural lens that gives a view of women’s health as it relates to women’s lives and identities. Eighteen new chapters address clinical primary care topics, genetics, environmental and occupational health promotion, health considerations for female caregivers, transgender care, urologic health concerns, dementia care, and more. An instructor’s toolkit includes multiple resources to enhance critical thinking, and case studies engage critical thinking skills to apply the multidimensional content in context.

This uniquely comprehensive resource examines women’s health through a variety of clinical practice and theoretical frameworks such as feminism, feminist theory, and globalization. The second edition retains the important focus on prevention, managing symptoms, and health problems that are unique to women. Chapters address relevant legal issues, health throughout the life span, nutrition and exercise, sleep difficulties, mental health, LGBTQ health, fertility, substance abuse, violence against women, and dozens of specific health disorders.

NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:

• Updated to include the most current evidence-based, primary care management guidelines in women’s health
• Includes 18 new chapters addressing health promotion and symptom management
• Provides a robust instructor’s toolkit to foster critical thinking
• Organized to enhance easy retrieval of numerous clinical topics
• Includes theoretical frameworks for women’s health, health promotion and prevention, and women’s health management
• Presents brand-new information on genetics, transgender health, endocrine-related problems, health considerations for caregivers, and dementia care

KEY FEATURES:

• Distills cutting-edge information on women’s health issues through a sociocultural framework
• Offers a comprehensive investigation of key topics in women’s health
• Edited by renowned scholar/educators for advanced practice nursing students

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: WOMEN’S LIVES, WOMEN’S HEALTH

1. Women and Their Health

Versie Johnson-Mallard and Nancy Fugate Woods

2. Women as Health Care Providers

Diana Taylor

3. Women and Health Care

Nancy Fugate Woods, Ellen F. Olshansky, and Deborah Ward

4. Health Care for Vulnerable Populations

Cheryl L. Cooke and Selina A. Mohammed

5. Legal Issues in Women’s Health Care

Anna G. Small

6. Feminist Frameworks for Advanced Practice With Women

Cheryl L. Cooke and Selina A. Mohammed

PART II: HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION FOR WOMEN

7. Women’s Bodies

Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston and Cara J. Krulewitch

8. Young Women’s Health

Catherine Takacs Witkop

9. Midlife Women’s Health

Nancy Fugate Woods, Judith Berg, and Ellen Sullivan Mitchell

10. Older Women’s Health

Barbara B. Cochrane and Heather M. Young

11. Well Woman’s Health

Versie Johnson-Mallard and Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston

12. Mental Health

Gail M. Houck

13. Nutrition for Women

Heather Hutchins-Wiese

14. Healthy Practices: Physical Activity

JiWon Choi

15. Healthy Practices: Sleep

Carol A. Landis

16. Genetics and Women’s Health

Diane C. Seibert and Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston

17. Women and the Workplace

Janice Camp

18. Health Considerations for Women Caregivers

Judith Berg and Nancy Fugate Woods

19. Women’s Sexual Health

Elizabeth Kusturiss and Susan Kellogg Spadt

20. Primary Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals

Caroline Dorsen and Kathryn Tierney

21. Fertility Self-Management and Shared Management

Richard M. Prior and Heather C. Katz

22. Preconception Counseling

Debbie Postlethwaite, Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston, and Kristi Rae Norcross

23. Prenatal Care and Anticipating Birth

Lisa L. Ferguson

PART III: MANAGING SYMPTOMS AND WOMEN’S HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS

24. Breast Health Considerations

Deborah G. Feigel and Kathleen Kelleher

25. Caring for the Transgender Patient

Kathryn Tierney and Caroline Dorsen

26. Sexual Health Problems and Dysfunctions

Candi Bachour and Candace Brown

27. Vulvar and Vaginal Health

Robert Gildersleeve

28. Perimenstrual and Pelvic Symptoms and Syndromes

Candy Wilson, Regina A. McClure, and Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston

29. Urologic and Pelvic Floor Health Problems

Richard S. Bercik and Cherrilyn F. Richmond

30. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Catherine Ingram Fogel

31. Women and HIV/AIDS

Catherine Ingram Fogel

32. Human Papillomavirus

Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston, Versie Johnson-Mallard, and Naomi Jay

33. Gynecologic Cancers

Barbara J. Silko and Leslie J. Heron

34. Menopause

Ivy M. Alexander, Annette Jakubisin Konicki, Seja Jackson, Devangi Ladani, Jenna LoGiudice, and Lauren Vo

35. Osteoporosis

Ivy M. Alexander, Danielle LaRosa, Emily Miesse, and Matthew Witkovic

36. The Challenge of Unintended Pregnancies

Katherine Simmonds and Lisa Stern

37. Infertility

Rachel Oldani Bender and Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston

38. High-Risk Childbearing

Marianne T. Stone-Godena

39. Intrapartum and Postpartum Care

Heather Dawn Reynolds, Allison McCarson, Lilyan Kay, Meredith Goff

40. Mental Health Challenges

Deborah Antai-Otong

41. Substance Abuse and Women

Susan Caverly

42. Gender-Based Violence and Women’s Health

Angela Frederick Amar

43. Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Tina M. Chasse Mulinski, Karin V. Nyström, and Catherine G. Winkler

44. Endocrine-Related Problems

Adrienne Berarducci

45. Chronic Illness and Women

Tara F. Bertulfo and Theresa G. Rashdan

46. Care of Women With Disabilities

Tracie Harrison

Index