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November 2015 Vol. 3 No. 4
Female sexual dysfunction: Why is it so difficult to treat?
Many healthcare providers avoid addressing and treating sexual problems in women for a multitude of reasons, including the paucity of…
Formation of a peer review group for advanced practice nurses: Learning from and with colleagues
In 1996, Dr. Els Borst, former Minister of Health of the Netherlands, proposed that specially trained master’s-prepared nurses assume certain…
From practice to policy: The WHNP as advocate
As most of our readers know, the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) and the Association of…
Increasing self-efficacy through patient-centered pre-conception counseling for women with pre-existing diabetes
Purpose With a 50% increase in the incidence of pre-existing diabetes mellitus (DM) in pregnant women in less than…
Lung cancer screening: Low-dose computed tomography
In the United States this year, more than 200,000 individuals will be diagnosed with lung cancer and close to 160,000…
Lung cancer screening*
Tests are used to screen for different types of cancer. Some screening tests are used because they have been shown…
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November 2015 Vol. 3 No. 4
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Overactive bladder: Assessing patient goals and implementing individualized treatment
Before reading the article, click here to take the pretest. Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition affecting women…
PrEP for prevention: Practice update
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1.2 million persons are living with HIV in the…
Reproductive life plans among Spanish-speaking Hispanic women in the U.S.
Pregnancy and pre-conception care (PCC) are major concerns for reproductive-aged women. Although researchers are beginning to find an association between…
Strategies for collecting the family history to assess risk for inherited cancer
Collection of a patient’s family history (FH) is an important tool for establishing her risk levels for certain inherited cancers.…