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Primary Care of Women: A Guide for Midwives and Women's Health Providers

Author(s): Barbara Hackley, BSN, MS, RN, CNM, Nurse-Midwifery Specialty - Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut
Jan M. Kriebs, CNM, MSN, FACNM, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland
Mary Ellen Rousseau, BSN, MS, RN, CNM, FACNM, Director, Yale University School of Nursing Midwifery Education Program, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763716509
  • ISBN-10:0763716502
  • Hardcover    938 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $118.95 US List
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Overview

This text presents primary care information for the women's health scope of practice, including management of common health problems, lifestyle changes, prevention, immunizations, and the presentation and management of complications in pregnancy.

Features:

  • "Real life" care approach
  • In-depth coverage of women's health concerns
  • Easy-to-use tables summarizing diagnostic possibilities

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Each chapter begins with a discussion of common symptoms and suggestions on how to evaluate various clinical presentations. This approach more closely matches “real life” care and will be useful to students who need help developing clinical reasoning skills and to seasoned practitioners who may need help in developing a complete list of diagnostic possibilities that should be considered in specific clinical situations.

A wide range of issues are covered in this text including everything from health promotion and screenings to the management of common conditions affecting women. In addition, this text includes in-depth coverage of emerging health concerns for women, in particular mental health conditions, weight management, and cardiovascular health.

Each chapter discusses how management of common conditions affecting women is modified during pregnancy and lactation.

Easy to use tables summarizing diagnostic possibilities, treatment recommendations, and other key points can be found throughout each chapter.

Information is easy to retrieve, making this text a great resource for clinicians who need to find information quickly in the midst of a busy clinical session.

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1: Defining Primary Care
By Jan Kriebs

Chapter 2: Immunizations

By Barbara Hackley


Chapter 3: Health Screenings

By Barbara Hackley


Chapter 4: Environmental Health

By Donna Vivio

Chapter 5: Antibiotics

By Valerie A. Roe

 

Chapter 6: Obesity and Weight Management

By Diane Berry and Kimberly Whitfall


Chapter 7: Violence Against Women

By Patricia A. Paluzzi


Chapter 8: Substance Abuse

By Thomas J. Kidder

Chapter 9: Mental Health

By Ruth E. Johnson


Chapter 10: Headache

By Diane Viens


Chapter 11: Eye and Ear

By Mary Ellen Bouchard


Chapter 12: Asthma and Allergy          

By Barbara Hackley


Chapter 13: Respiratory

By Karen A. Stemler


Chapter 14: Cardiovascular Disease in Women

By Eileen Wyner, Julie Marfell and Mary Ellen Rousseau


Chapter 15: Anemia

By Kimberly Updegrove


Chapter 16: Endocrine
By Melissa Avery

 

Chapter 17: Gastrointestinal

By Diane Angelini, Diane Hodgman, and Edie McConaughey

 

Chapter 18: The Abdomen: Kidney, Bladder and Reproductive Problems      

By Diane Hodgman, Edie McConaghey, and Diane Angelini

 

Chapter 19: Breast

By Mary Ellen Rousseau


Chapter 20: Cervical and Ovarian Cancer

By Margie Beal and Molly Fey

Chapter 21: Musculoskeletal
By Todd Ambrosia

Chapter 22: Dermatology

By Mary Ellen Rousseau


Chapter 23: Infectious Diseases in Women         
By Jan Kriebs


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Barbara Hackley, BSN, MS, RN, CNM-Nurse-Midwifery Specialty - Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut

Barbara Hackley has worked for over twenty-five years in midwifery practice, education, and public health. She taught at Columbia and Georgetown University before joining the faculty at Yale University School of Nursing in 1997. She is a two-time recipient of the ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award and was awarded the 2001 Yale School of Nursing Annie W. Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her primary areas of interest focus on how to adapt clinical care and service delivery to effectively meet the health care needs of disadvantaged women. Her clinical work and scholarship has focused on expanding traditional OB/GYN services to routinely include primary care services such as immunizations, weight management, mental health care, and environmental health screening.

Jan M. Kriebs, CNM, MSN, FACNM-University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland

Jan Kriebs is director of the midwifery practice and assistant professor in the Department of OB/GYN at the University of Maryland Medical School. She is a graduate of the Yale University nurse-midwifery program, and has over 20 years experience in clinical practice. She participated in the USPHS Primary Care Policy Fellowship in 1997, and was elected to fellowship in the ACNM the same year. She is currently a regional representative on the ACNM Fellowship Board of Governors. As the co-author of Varney's Midwifery, Fourth Edition, and co-editor of the forthcoming primary care text for midwives, she remains committed to ensuring access to the highest quality care for all women, and the promotion of midwifery as the standard of women's health care.

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Mary Ellen Rousseau, BSN, MS, RN, CNM, FACNM-Director, Yale University School of Nursing Midwifery Education Program, New Haven, Connecticut

Mary Ellen Rousseau is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Midwifery Education Program at Yale University School of Nursing. She is a fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives. She continues to practice full scope midwifery care but specializes in midlife health of women.

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