Women's Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing

Ivy M. Alexander, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, FAAN, is Clinical Professor and Director of Advanced Practice Programs, University of Connecticut School of Nursing. An experienced APN educator and practitioner, she was named to the top 100 Nursing Professors by BSN to MSN organization in 2012. She is a notable researcher in the areas of Menopause, Osteoporosis, Women’s Health, Risk Reduction, and Health Disparities. Dr. Alexander is an award-winning author of numerous books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journals on topics in women’s health and is also a sought-after presenter on these topics. Versie Johnson-Mallard, PhD, ARNP, WHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar alumna, is a National Certification Corporation board–certified women’s health nurse practitioner, faculty, and chair of Family, Community and Health System Science at the University of Florida College of Nursing. Scientific discovery and funding were with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sexual and reproductive health clinical inquiry was the impetus to advance scientific knowledge about innovative educational interventions designed to promote reproductive health and cancer prevention among young adults. Dr. Johnson-Mallard’s teaching, clinical practice, research, and publications are in the area of women’s health, sexual and reproductive health promotion, human papillomavirus (HPV)/cancer screening/prevention/vaccination, and behavior change in response to culturally appropriate educational interventions. Dr. Johnson-Mallard provides consultation to partners who share interest in the development of education material, clinical guidelines, and policy around reproductive health and cancer prevention. Elizabeth A. Kostas-Polston, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar alumna and board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner who holds a dual appointment as assistant professor in the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. She received her bachelor of science in nursing from Arizona State University, a master of science in nursing with specialization in women’s health (obstetrics, gynecology, and primary care of women) from the University of Florida, and a doctor of philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. As a nurse scientist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, her scholarship is focused on ensuring the effective translation of knowledge for new approaches to health promotion, disease prevention, and the diagnosis, treatment, and management of HPV-related cancers. In support of her training, she was selected as a fellow and completed postdoctoral studies in genetics, genomics, and molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research. The primary aim of Dr. Kostas-Polston’s clinical practice is to improve the health of women and their families. Toward this end, she works with others interested in the development of health promotion and disease-prevention strategies, evidence-based clinical guidelines, and health policy focused on sexual and reproductive and HPV-related cancer prevention. Catherine Ingram Fogel, PhD, RNC, FAAN, is a research professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. She is the author of several texts on women’s health, including the award-winning Women’s Health Care and the first edition of Women’s Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing, and has authored numerous research and clinical articles on women’s health. For more than 35 years, she has had both a sustained research program and clinical practice with incarcerated women. Her research has increased nursing’s awareness and understanding of the health problems of incarcerated women and their complicated lives. Fogel was the principal investigator on one National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded grant focusing on prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in women prisoners; another NIH-funded grant exploring the experiences of parenting from prison; a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded grant to deliver a sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk reduction intervention to HIV-infected women living in the Southeast, and an additional CDC-funded grant to adapt a proven HIV risk-reduction intervention to incarcerated women. Dr. Fogel was also a coinvestigator on a federally funded grant to determine if a comprehensive intervention, supporting seek–test–and–treat, can result in significant reduction in the potential for HIV-infected prisoners to retransmit their virus after release. Fogel is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She was certified as a women’s health care nurse practitioner in 1982. She received a North Carolina Community Service Award for her work with women prisoners and the 1993 Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) National Excellence in Clinical Practice Award. Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, is professor in the Department of Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington. Since the late 1970s, she has led a sustained program of research in the field of women’s health. Her collaborative research has resulted in an improved understanding of women’s transition to menopause, including physical and emotional factors; has advanced nursing care for midlife women; and has provided women with a better understanding of their health. In 1989, Dr. Woods helped establish the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Washington. Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She helped set research agendas as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Women’s Health Task Force and Office of Women’s Health Research Advisory Council. Her honors include election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and to the American Academy of Nursing. She received the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award and, in 2003, received the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research. She earned a BS in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, in 1968; an MN from the University of Washington in 1969; and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1978.

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