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A disease you just caught: Low-income African American mothers’ cultural beliefs about postpartum depression
Aha! moments: Student insights regarding a new DNP program
An Update on Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
One survey found only 66% of patients with a documented diagnosis of VVC received a guideline-recommended workup.
Assessment and Management of Vitamin D Deficiency
Treatment for vitamin D deficiency is safe and inexpensive, but the condition often goes undiagnosed or untreated.
Assessment and management: Primary hypothyroidism in women
Hypothyroidism is a common endocrine disorder affecting nearly 2 in 100 women. Primary hypothyroidism can be diagnosed and effectively managed by primary care providers.
Assessment of the effect of social influences and personal resilience on preventing repeat adolescent pregnancy
Barriers to care for sexual assault survivors of childbearing age: An integrative review
Best-practice recommendations for adoption planning and placement in the healthcare setting
BOlder Women’s Health Coalition: A call to action
Many female baby boomers envision healthy aging in a way that differs from that of previous generations.
Breast cancer survivor satisfaction with NP-delivered follow-up care
Caring for female adolescent acquaintance rape victims
Caring for survivors of sexual violence: a guide for primary care NPs
Caring for survivors of sexual violence: A guide for primary care NPs
Caring for women with disabilities during the perinatal period: Results of a descriptive survey
Cervical cancer prevention: Review of the past, present, and future
No longer should anyone living in the United States die from cervical cancer because this cancer is preventable.
Challenges of preconception and interconception care: Environmental toxic exposures
Checklist for parents planning out-of-hospital births: An evidence-based application
Clinical management of dilemmas in contraception
Covid-19 Update Post-Covid Conditions: Implications for Primary Care Providers
Many post-Covid symptoms can be managed in the primary care setting and often improve without medical intervention during the first few months after initial infection.
COVID-19 update: Navigating biases against Asian Americans during Covid-19
Asian American healthcare providers disproportionately experience racial discrimination in the context of this pandemic.
Current Primary Care Recommendations for Three Common Autoimmune Disorders
Design and Implementation of a Virtual Procedural Skills Training
Virtual workshops are increasingly becoming a popular venue for continuing education (CE) opportunities to maintain and expand skills for routine in-office procedures.
Developing and implementing PrEP at your local health center
Development of the WHNP Postpartum Hospitalist Role: Perspectives From Philadelphia
Beyond benefits to the patient, there are also professional benefits that may attract the WHNP to a hospitalist role.
Diagnosis and management of pelvic organ prolapse: The basics
Dying to be thin: Recognizing and treating anorexia in adolescents
Early detection of ovarian cancer
Effect of physical activity on urinary incontinence in women: Implications for providers
Effect of tickborne illnesses on women
Includes a video with a step-by-step simulation of a tick removal.
Effective communication regarding advanced care planning and end-of-life care options
Effective communication regarding advanced care planning and end-of-life care options
Emergency Contraception Update
Despite increases in availability Emergency Contraception (EC) remains an underutilized method of pregnancy prevention.
Evaluating suppressive therapies to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections: A literature review
Examining an Implicit Bias Assessment Tool: Considerations for Faculty and Clinicians
We have an obligation to teach the next generation of providers about the role of implicit bias in healthcare and its impact on patients served.
Fears surrounding pregnancy and motherhood among women with cystic fibrosis
Fertility preservation for young cervical cancer survivors
Group visits for management of patients with PCOS: A pilot study
Hypothyroidism in pregnancy
Incorporating features of the Bedsider website into contraceptive counseling
Increasing access to care through pharmacy provision of hormonal contraceptives: A nursing perspective
Influence of education strategies on young women’s knowledge and attitudes about the HPV vaccine
Interstitial cystitis: Algorithm to simplify diagnosis of chronic urinary symptoms
Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: New Insights on an Old Issue
Although ICP poses minimal health risks for the pregnant person, it carries significant risk to the fetus.
It’s not just physical: The adverse psychosocial effects of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
Ketogenic nutrition therapy: Considerations for the women’s health clinician
Current data are limited on ketogenic nutrition in pregnancy, and it is therefore not recommended.
Managing female sexual dysfunction
Managing the sugar blues: Putting the latest gestational diabetes mellitus guidelines into practice
Menstrual suppression in an adolescent with intellectual disability
What should the NP know about menstruation in girls with intellectual disability?
Mental illness stigma: Strategies to address a barrier to care
Women’s health NPs are ideally positioned to decrease MI stigma and facilitate necessary mental health services as providers of women’s healthcare across the lifespan.
Mothers’ perceptions regarding mother–daughter sexual communication
Motivational interviewing and adherence to osteoporosis regimens
Navigating challenges for preceptors: Results from the WHNP Workforce Survey
As advanced practice nursing programs proliferate and medical students and physician assistant students also seek clinical experiences, competition for preceptors at appropriate clinical sites has intensified.
Non-suicidal self-injury: The nurse practitioner’s role in identification and treatment
NPWH 2013 conference abstracts
NPWH 2014 conference abstracts
Osteoporosis and fracture prevention
Even when patients are diagnosed with increased fracture risk, many choose not to take medication because of concerns about rare risks that are often sensationalized in the media.
Pelvic floor physical therapy: More than Kegels
Perinatal anxiety disorders: Assessment and management
Pregnancy’s effects on cardiovascular health: A woman’s first “cardiac stress test”
PrEP for women: An update for healthcare providers
PrEP use among women has the potential to reduce new HIV infections by 61% (with ≥ 75% adherence), yet less than 10% of men and women who are “behaviorally indicated for PrEP” are utilizing this important prevention tool.
Promoting self-esteem in overweight and obese girls
Promoting self-esteem in overweight and obese girls
Providing Bias-informed and Evidence-based Care for Pregnant Persons with Obesity
Reaching postpartum women in the U.S.: Demographics and generational characteristics
Recognition and management of secondary postpartum hemorrhage
Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Students and Faculty in Women’s Health
Nurses of color are being lost in the pipeline from RN to NP in general and from RN to WHNP in particular.
Relative energy deficiency in sport: Health implications in female athletes
Reproductive life plans among Spanish-speaking Hispanic women in the U.S.
Reproductive life plans among Spanish-speaking Hispanic women in the U.S.
Risky dating behavior among women aged 50+: A growing public health concern
Role of the WHNP in providing care for the patient with recurrent pregnancy loss
RPL can be an intimidating entity for healthcare providers to evaluate and treat due to varying guidelines and pressure from patients to prevent future losses.
Strategies for collecting the family history to assess risk for inherited cancer
Strategies for collecting the family history to assess risk for inherited cancer
Strategies for effective group prenatal care with pregnant adolescents
Streamlining a Carrier Screening Routine Into Practice: Proactive Prepregnancy Planning
Prepregnancy carrier screening enables individuals and couples to learn about their reproductive risk and consider the most complete range of reproductive options versus waiting until pregnancy when choices become more limited.
Syphilis update for women’s healthcare providers
Teen dating violence: Not child’s play
Telehealth for Older Women: Practice Considerations for the WHNP
The WHNP is ideally situated to consider adding telehealth services for older women as part of preventive healthcare and chronic health condition management.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Research to answer questions important to patients and clinicians
The PICSSL model: A new strategy for addressing patients’ intimacy and sexuality concerns
The role of anti-Müllerian hormone in diagnosing and managing PCOS
Thyroid autoantibodies and adverse pregnancy outcomes
Trauma-informed care Part 1: The road to its operationalization
Trauma-informed clinical strategies can prevent re-traumatization of individuals who have experienced trauma.
Trauma-informed Care Part 2: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals
Data suggest that 24% of transgender people experience unequal treatment in healthcare environments.
Treating women with osteoporosis: Review and NPWH survey results
Treatment of a Bartholin gland abscess: A step-by-step approach using simulation
Type 2 diabetes in women of reproductive age
Reproductive-age women with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes can benefit from education that allows them to develop a reproductive life plan that will optimize future pregnancy outcomes.
Understanding contralateral prophylactic mastectomy decision-making in women with early-stage breast cancer: A nursing perspective
Updates in Adult Female Acne
Acne vulgaris is one of the most commonly treated dermatologic diseases in adult females, but treatment selection and patient education should be tailored specifically to this population.
Use of screening tools for depression in adolescents: an evidence-based systematic review
Use of screening tools for depression in adolescents: An evidence-based systematic review
Using simulation to practice and perfect gynecologic procedure skills
Using simulation to practice vulvar procedure skills
Vaginal Estrogen: An Option to be Considered for Postmenopausal Women
Despite the fear and negativity surrounding the use of vaginal estrogen, it is safe and effective for the treatment of vaginal dryness in most postmenopausal women.
Vulvar dermatoses: an NP’s approach to benign skin conditions “down there”
We Are the Solution to Our Problem: A Brief Review of the History of Racism and Nursing
Racism in nursing has existed since the profession’s historic beginnings, and it continues to permeate nursing education, practice, research, and policy.