Guidelines for nurse practitioners in gynecologic settings [E-Book]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Well woman initial/annual gynecologic exam -- Safe practices for clinicians -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Smoking cessation -- Weight management -- Guidelines for assessing victims of abuse and violence / Holly Fontenot -- Methods of contraception and family planning (barrier methods, contraceptive spermicides and condoms, emergency contraception, hormonal contraception -- Intrauterine devices/intrauterine contraceptive devices, natural family planning -- Sterilization) / Heidi Collins Fantasia -- Preconception care -- Breast conditions (abnormal breast discharge, breast mass, breast pain) -- Cervical aberrations (cervicitis, papanicolaou (PAP) smear and colposcopy) / Holly Fontenot -- Emotional and mental health issues (appropriate for assessment and treatment in -- Women's health care setting) -- Genitourinary tract conditions (interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome, urinary tract infection) -- Infertility -- Loss of integrity of pelvic floor structures -- Medical abortion (postabortion care : medical and surgical, postabortion complications) -- Menstrual disorders (abnormal vaginal bleeding, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, endometrial biopsy, premenstrual syndrome) -- Miscellaneous gynecologic conditions (abdominal pain, acute pelvic pain, Bartholin's cyst, bartholinitis, chronic pelvic pain, dysesthetic vulvodynia, pediculosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pelvic mass, scabies, uterine leiomyomata, vulvar conditions) / Allyssa L. Harris -- Perimenopause and postmenopause (general care measures, hormone therapy -- Osteoporosis) -- Polycystic ovary syndrome -- Sexual dysfunction -- Vaginal conditions (checklist for vaginal discharge workup, checklist for vaginal discharge with odor workup, candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis, chancroid, chlamydia trachomatis infection, condylomata acuminata (genital warts) -- Genital herpes simplex, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS -- Lymphogranuloma venereum, molluscum contagiosum, syphilis, trichomoniasis) / Thomas J. Loveless.

The 11th edition of this classic guide for assessment and management of common gynecologic conditions by advanced practice nurses is updated with cutting-edge topics, new evidence-based guidelines, and current patient teaching materials to enhance excellence in clinical practice. This edition features a completely updated chapter on the well-woman annual exam, including issues about the care of older women, and extensive revisions throughout regarding contraceptive methods, CAMs, medical abortion, HIV/AIDS, HPV screening and vaccine recommendations, and much more.

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