Fast Facts about the Gynecological Exam for Nurse Practitioners

R. ""Mimi"" Clarke Secor, MS, MEd, RN, FNP-C, FAANP, is a Family NP specializing in women's health in Upton, MA and Visiting Scholar at Boston College School of Nursing. She is a national speaker and consultant to AP Clinicians, and President Emerita and Sr. Advisor for Nurse Practitioner Associates of Continuing Education (NPACE). Ms. Secor is a founding and current board member of the American College of Clinicians. Her 30 years of clinical experience have included emergency care, college health, private practice, prison nursing and rural clinic nursing. Before working for seven years at Bethel Family Clinic, in Bethel, Alaska, she operated an independent Boston area NP practice for 12 years. She is on the editorial board of Clinician Review, a former syndicated radio host of ""Hot Topics in Women's Health,"" and has delivered numerous radio and TV presentations on women's health. She is a founder of the Massachusetts Coalition of NPs. ||Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, is an assistant professor in the School of Health and Environment, Department of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Visiting Scholar at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. Dr. Fantasia is a women's health nurse practitioner who provides contraceptive and reproductive health care for a Title X family planning clinic in northeastern Massachusetts. She has over 20 years of clinical nursing experience including inpatient obstetrics and advanced practice women's health care in both private and public health settings. Dr. Fantasia has published and presented nationally and internationally on a variety of topics related to women's health and conducts research in the area of reproductive health.