Guidelines for nurse practitioners in gynecologic settings /

The 11th edition of this classic guide for assessment and management of common gynecologic conditions by advanced practice nurses is updated with cutting-edge topics, new evidence-based guidelines, and current patient teaching materials to enhance excellence in clinical practice. This edition featur...

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Main Author: Hawkins, Joellen Watson
Other Authors: Roberto-Nichols, Diane M., Stanley-Haney, J. Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2016]
Edition:11th ed.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Well woman initial/annual gynecologic exam
  • Safe practices for clinicians
  • Complementary and alternative therapies
  • Smoking cessation
  • Weight management
  • Guidelines for assessing victims of abuse and violence / Holly Fontenot
  • Methods of contraception and family planning (barrier methods, contraceptive spermicides and condoms, emergency contraception, hormonal contraception
  • Intrauterine devices/intrauterine contraceptive devices, natural family planning
  • Sterilization) / Heidi Collins Fantasia
  • Preconception care
  • Breast conditions (abnormal breast discharge, breast mass, breast pain)
  • Cervical aberrations (cervicitis, papanicolaou (PAP) smear and colposcopy) / Holly Fontenot
  • Emotional and mental health issues (appropriate for assessment and treatment in
  • Women's health care setting)
  • Genitourinary tract conditions (interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome, urinary tract infection)
  • Infertility
  • Loss of integrity of pelvic floor structures
  • Medical abortion (postabortion care : medical and surgical, postabortion complications)
  • Menstrual disorders (abnormal vaginal bleeding, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, endometrial biopsy, premenstrual syndrome)
  • Miscellaneous gynecologic conditions (abdominal pain, acute pelvic pain, Bartholin's cyst, bartholinitis, chronic pelvic pain, dysesthetic vulvodynia, pediculosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pelvic mass, scabies, uterine leiomyomata, vulvar conditions) / Allyssa L. Harris
  • Perimenopause and postmenopause (general care measures, hormone therapy
  • Osteoporosis)
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Vaginal conditions (checklist for vaginal discharge workup, checklist for vaginal discharge with odor workup, candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis, chancroid, chlamydia trachomatis infection, condylomata acuminata (genital warts)
  • Genital herpes simplex, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS
  • Lymphogranuloma venereum, molluscum contagiosum, syphilis, trichomoniasis) / Thomas J. Loveless.