Main description:

The only text to focus specifically on advanced health assessment/management of women

This authoritative text for busy clinicians, advanced practice students, and faculty delivers essential content focused on improving the quality of healthcare provided to women/persons with a vagina across the lifespan. Brimming with new and updated content, the fifth edition reflects the most current evidence-based clinical practice guidelines available. It includes 14 new chapters written by experts in their field and the addition of disease management content, especially medications. Chapters are enhanced with management/pharmacology summary charts and case studies with discussion questions. The use of two colors improves readability, and amplified Instructor Resources include key statistics/epidemiology, learning objectives, suggested student activities and self-assessment questions, and UAB videos.

Using a clear, concise outline format, this user-friendly text delivers quick, comprehensive information regarding the health assessment and management of women/persons with a vagina. It defines the role, skills, and scope of practice of different health providers and illuminates a variety of assessment skills, techniques, and procedures used by advanced practice clinicians in everyday practice. Sample assessment forms are integrated throughout along with numerous educational handouts for patients. Discussion of techniques includes a comprehensive list of requisite equipment and information on patient prep and recommended follow-up. Boxes, tables, and figures throughout reinforce key information. Purchase includes access to eBook for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Fifth Edition:

Fourteen new chapters
Telehealth in women's health
Vaginal health and vaginal microscopy
Mental health screening
Preconception care
Complementary and alternative medical therapies
Adolescent health
Lactation assessment and management
Female veterans
Male sexual and reproductive health
Amenorrhea
PMS/PMDD
Sexual health and related problems
Human trafficking
The contraceptive consult
Expanded breast health including breastfeeding
Transgender care
Updates on screening instruments
Best-practice apps
Case studies
Management/treatment summaries
Enhanced instructor package including key statistics/epidemiology, learning objectives, student activities, and self-assessment questions
Two-color printing to improve readability
Step-by-step videos of five office gynecology simulations from UAB

Key Features:

Delivered in outline, bulleted format for speedy reference
Reflects the most current evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Offers easy-to-follow, step-by-step coverage of procedures
Addresses treatment/management of multiple conditions
Includes detailed illustrations

Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
UNIT I. FEMALE REPRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Anatomy and Physiology of the Urinary and Reproductive Systems
Chapter 2. The Reproductive Cycle
UNIT II. HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Chapter 3. The Health History
Chapter 4. Telehealth in the Women's Health Setting
Chapter 5. The Physical Examination
Chapter 6. Vaginal Infections and Vaginal Microscopy
Chapter 7. Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 8. Assessment of the Skin/Aesthetics
Chapter 9. Assessment of the Female Breast
Chapter 10. Breast Imaging
Chapter 11. Mental Health Screening: Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, PTSD, Substance Abuse, Suicide, and Dementia
Chapter 12. Preconception Care
Chapter 13. Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies
UNIT III. EVALUATION OF SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Chapter 14. Assessment of the Pregnant Woman
Chapter 15. Adolescent Health
Chapter 16. Lactation Assessment and Management
Chapter 17. Assessment and Clinical Evaluation of Obesity in Women
Chapter 18. Lesbian Health (Don't Ask . . . Won't Tell: Lesbian Women and Women Who Have Sex with Women)
Chapter 19. Transgender Healthcare
Chapter 20. Female Veterans: When the Woman was a Warrior
Chapter 21. Male Sexual and Reproductive Health
UNIT IV. EVALUATION OF SPECIAL GYNECOLOGIC PROBLEMS
Chapter 22. Assessment of Menopausal Status
Chapter 23. Osteoporosis and Evaluation of Fracture Risk
Chapter 24. Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM) and Vulvovaginal Atrophy
Chapter 25. Assessment of Pelvic Pain
Chapter 26. Assessment of Vulvar Pain and Vulvodynia
Chapter 27. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Chapter 28. Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Chapter 29. Amenorrhea
Chapter 30. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
UNIT V. EVALUATION OF THE PELVIC FLOOR
Chapter 31. Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Chapter 32. Urinary Incontinence
Chapter 33. Sexual Health and Related Problems
UNIT VI. ASSESSMENT OF WOMEN AT RISK
Chapter 34. The Sexual Assault Victim
Chapter 35. Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 36. Assessment and Response to Human Trafficking
UNIT VII. INFERTILITY AND SUBFERTILITY ASSESSMENT
Chapter 37. Initial Evaluation of Infertility
Chapter 38. Methods to Detect Ovulation
Chapter 39. Intrauterine Insemination
UNIT VIII. CONTRACEPTION
Chapter 40. The Contraceptive Consult
Chapter 41. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use
Chapter 42. Cervical Cap and the One-Size Diaphragm
Chapter 43. Intrauterine Contraception
Chapter 44. Contraceptive Implants
UNIT IX. INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES
Chapter 45. Cervical Cancer Screening and Colposcopy
Chapter 46. Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Chapter 47. Urinalysis and UTI
UNIT X. ADVANCED SKILLS
Chapter 48. Vulvar Cancer and Biopsy
Chapter 49. Endometrial Biopsy
Chapter 50. Acrochordonectomy (Skin Tag Removal)
Chapter 51. Cervical Polypectomy
Chapter 52. Incision and Drainage of Bartholin's Abscess
Chapter 53. Pessary Insertion
UNIT XI. PHARMACOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT (ONLINE ONLY)
Chapter 54. Pharmacological Management Summaries in Women's Health
UNIT XI. SUPPLEMENTAL CHAPTERS (ONLINE ONLY)
Chapter 55. In-Office Sonohysteroscopy
Chapter 56. Donor Insemination
Chapter 57. Simple Cystometrogram (CMG)
Chapter 58. Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulation
Chapter 59. Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation
Index