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The Potential Impacts of Delaying “Non-Essential” Reproductive Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A new KFF brief outlines the potential impacts of delaying reproductive health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to reduce the risk of coronavirus...
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Caring For Women During COVID-19 Webinar Series

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NPWH Celebrates Juneteenth

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A quality improvement initiative to increase identification of oral disease and dental care in pregnancy

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NPWH Student Leadership Spotlights

Celebrate the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by supporting our next generation of WHNPs. The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) Student Leadership Program focuses on developing the next generation of WHNPs. WHNP Program Directors and faculty nominate students. The NPWH Student Leadership Subcommittee selects students based on the applicant’s leadership, creativity, and scholastic qualities.

My Nurse Influencers

To celebrate the launch of the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Women’s Healthcare launched its My Nurse Influencer program to feature some of the greatest online nurse influencers! These influencers bring a fresh perspective to our journal and offer our readers more diverse topic matter. We are also thrilled to offer these influencers a platform to share their voices. Editor’s Note –The views expressed in the nurse influencer posts are those of the contributing authors. NPWH does not sanction the content of these posts.

Living and learning immersed in chaos

Four months ago, we could not have imagined how quickly our lives and healthcare practices would change as all individuals, families and communities including...

Progesterone – a hormone with many functions

Progesterone has been called the “mother hormone.” It is created from pregnenolone along with the estrogens, androgens, mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids. And pregnenolone is made...

Masks for All: Exception – Children Under Two Years Old

COVID-19 challenges us to ask and answer two questions: 1.) What is the new norm? 2.) Will communities rise to the challenge and accept the new...

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NPWH Member Spotlights

NPWH is pleased to announce a new feature highlighting our members. If you would like to nominate a member or yourself to be highlighted, please email Julia Knox at jknox@npwh.org.

NPWH Member Spotlight: Kim Choma, DNP, WHNP-BC

We are excited to continue our NPWH Member Spotlight feature, where we highlight different members and their journey to becoming an NP. Our latest...

NPWH Member Spotlight: Carolyn Sutton, WHNP-BC

NPWH highlights member, Carolyn Sutton, WHNP-BC. What is your certification? I was in the first group to take the NCC WHNP certification exam. My certification...

NPWH Member Spotlight: Sarah Freeman, FNP

NPWH highlights member, Sarah Freeman, FNP. Sarah is a previous Chair of the NPWH Board of Directors. How long have you been practicing? Since 1974...

Continuing Education

Update on pharmacologic treatment for endometriosis- related pain

Faculty: Caitlin Henderson, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC, is a women’s health nurse practitioner in a private ob/gyn practice in West Islip, New York. Jennifer Hofmann, MS,...

Etiology of hypoactive sexual desire disorder and implications for treatment: ...

Faculty: Brooke M. Faught, DNP, WHNP-BC, NCMP, IF, is Clinical Director, Women’s Institute for Sexual Health, Division of Urology Associates; and Adjunct Professor, Vanderbilt...

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Call for Peer Reviewers

Women’s Healthcare: A Clinical Journal for NPs, the official journal of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, invites you to become...

Position Statement

Position Statement | Prepregnancy genetic carrier screening

The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) advocates for equitable access to informed, voluntary prepregnancy genetic carrier screening for individuals/couples who...

Editor-In-Chief's Message

Editor-in-chief’s message | June 2020

Dear Colleagues,  We started 2020 off by acknowledging the World Health Organization-designated “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” that coincides with Florence Nightingale’s...

Supplement - Bacterial Vaginosis

Focus on sexual health | Bacterial vaginosis: Impact of sexual activity, implications for sexual...

Brooke M. Faught Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most prevalent vaginal infection. Although BV is not classified as a sexually transmitted infection, it is considered...