Main description:

Replete with vital information, the second edition of this authoritative women's health text provides graduate nursing students and nurse practitioners with the resources to deliver optimal health to women of all ages. Edited by a team of highly distinguished clinicians, scholars, and educators, chapters retain a distinctive sociocultural lens that gives a view of women's health as it relates to women's lives and identities. Eighteen new chapters address clinical primary care topics, genetics, environmental and occupational health promotion, health considerations for female caregivers, transgender care, urologic health concerns, dementia care, and more. An instructor's toolkit includes multiple resources to enhance critical thinking, and case studies engage critical thinking skills to apply the multidimensional content in context.

This uniquely comprehensive resource examines women's health through a variety of clinical practice and theoretical frameworks such as feminism, feminist theory, and globalization. The second edition retains the important focus on prevention, managing symptoms, and health problems that are unique to women. Chapters address relevant legal issues, health throughout the life span, nutrition and exercise, sleep difficulties, mental health, LGBTQ health, fertility, substance abuse, violence against women, and dozens of specific health disorders.

New to the Second Edition:

Updated to include the most current evidence-based, primary care management guidelines in women's health
Includes 18 new chapters addressing health promotion and symptom management
Provides a robust instructor's toolkit to foster critical thinking
Organized to enhance easy retrieval of numerous clinical topics
Includes theoretical frameworks for women's health, health promotion and prevention, and women's health management
Presents brand-new information on genetics, transgender health, endocrine-related problems, health considerations for caregivers, and dementia care

Key Features:

Distills cutting-edge information on women's health issues through a sociocultural framework
Offers a comprehensive investigation of key topics in women's health
Edited by renowned scholar/educators for advanced practice nursing students

Contents:

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. Nystroem, 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