Midwifery & Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide, Third Edition is a comprehensive review guide designed to help nurse- midwives and women’s health nurse practitioners prepare for certification exams. Based on the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) and the National Certification Corporation (NCC) test blueprints, it contains nearly 1,000 questions and comprehensive rationales representing those found on the exams. Completely updated and revised with the most current evidence and practice standards, the new edition incorporates expanded content on pharmacology, pathophysiology, and diagnostic tools.
Included with each new print book is an online Access Code for Navigate TestPrep, a dynamic and fully hosted online assessment tool offering hundreds of bonus questions in addition to those in the book with detailed rationales and reporting.
About the Author
Beth M. Kelsey, EdD, WHNP- earned his undergraduate degree in physical education from Oklahoma State University, -Assistant Professor, DNP Program Director, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Board of Directors, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
Beth M. Kelsey, EdD, APRN, WHNP-BC - Assistant Professor, DNP Program Director, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Editor in Chief, Women’s Healthcare: A Clinical Journal for NPs, the official journal of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
Beth Kelsey, EdD, APRN, WHNP-BC has been a nationally certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner since 1980. She holds master’s degrees from Ball State University in both nursing and adult and community education. She received her doctoral degree in 2005 with a major in adult, higher and community education from Ball State University. Dr. Kelsey’s clinical practice has been in a variety of health clinics providing well woman care, family planning services, sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and treatment, and prenatal care.
Dr. Kelsey is an Assistant Professor at Ball State University School of Nursing and is the Director of the DNP Program. She teaches advanced practice role and primary care of women in the adult and family nurse practitioner tracks of the master’s program and leadership and health policy in advanced practice, population focused health care, and advanced topics in management of client health/illness status in the DNP program. She is faculty advisor for DNP capstone projects. She has presented nationally on a variety of women’s health topics including lab and diagnostic test interpretation in women’s health, intrauterine contraception, health screening recommendations for women, menopause issues, and putting evidence into practice. She has also published several articles on contraception issues.
Dr. Kelsey also serves as a board member of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health. In the past 12 years she has been the recipient of three School of Nursing Outstanding Teacher Awards, the Beta Rho Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Excellence in Nursing Education Award, and the Ball State University Outstanding Nursing Alumnus Award., tracking his steps, and RAGBRAI.
Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos- Reader in Exercise Science at the University of Strathclyde. He has a BEd in physical , MSN, CRNP-Associate Program Director, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos, MSN, WHNP-BC, IBCLC – Associate Director, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA; Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Secretary, Board of Directors, Executive Committee, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos, MSN, WHNP-BC, IBCLC has been a board certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner for 11 years. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University College of Nursing and holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in obstetrics and gynecology. Upon graduation, she helped develop the first obstetric nurse practitioner hospitalist position for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this role, which she still currently holds, she has provided care for women in several different areas including high-risk antepartum and postpartum, and is involved in nursing and resident education.
Mrs. Nagtalon-Ramos is the Associate Director of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For the past 9 years, Mrs. Nagtalon-Ramos has a cadre of teaching experience in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs including clinical instruction in obstetric ultrasound and for the maternal-child rotation and didactic teaching in physical assessment, well-woman/gynecology, antepartum, integration/advance practice role and fetal evaluation courses.
Mrs. Nagtalon-Ramos has presented locally, nationally and internationally on a wide array of topics that are primarily focused on women’s health, including the advanced practice nursing role, postpartum care, infectious disease in pregnancy, contraceptive counseling, breastfeeding, role of culture in providing obstetrical care and utilizing technology to improve clinical practice.
Mrs. Nagtalon-Ramos serves as the Secretary for the Board of Directors Executive Committee for the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health and has co-chaired the 2012 and 2013 annual conferences. In 2013, she earned 3rd place in the Child Health Category in the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year Awards. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Philadelphia Tri-State Area GEM award in the Education and Mentorship category and the Rising Star award from Rutgers University School of Nursing. She is also the recipient of several awards from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing including the 2012 Recent Alumni Award for Clinical Excellence, 2013 Department of Family and Community Health Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2014 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Strategies for Studying and Test Taking (Beth M. Kelsey) • Strategy 1: Know Yourself • Strategy 2: Know the Content to Be Studied • Strategy 3: Know Your Strengths and Weaknesses • Strategy 4: Develop a Study Plan • Strategy 5: Get Down to the Business of Studying • Strategy 6: Become Testwise • Strategy 7: Apply Basic Rules of Standardized Test Taking • Strategy 8: Psych Yourself Up • Summary • Bibliography
Chapter 2: General Health Assessment and Health Promotion (Beth M. Kelsey) • Health History • Physical Examination (General Screening Examination) • Nongynecological Diagnostic Studies/Laboratory Tests • General Health Promotion • Preconception Care • Parenting • Aging • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 3: Principles of Pharmacology (Beth M. Kelsey) • Pharmacokinetics (Study of How the Body Processes Drugs) • Pharmacodynamics (Study of Mechanism of Drug Action on Living Tissue) • Adverse Reactions-Unintended, Undesired Effects of Drug • Drug Interactions • Drug Contraindications • Pharmacotherapy (Applying Knowledge of Benefits and Risks of Drug Therapy to Individual Care) • Client Education • Selected Drug Review • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 4: Normal Gynecology and Well-Woman Care (Beth M. Kelsey) • Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology • Well- Woman Visit • Breast Health • Sexuality • Diagnostic Studies and Laboratory Tests • Fertility Control • Perimenopause and Menopause Symptom Management • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 5: Gynecological Disorders (Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos) • Menstrual and Endocrine Disorders • Benign and Malignant Tumors/Neoplasms • Vaginal Infections • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) • Urinary Tract Disorders • Breast Disorders • Congenital and Chromosomal Abnormalities • Additional Gynecologic Disorders • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 6: Prenatal Care and Fetal Assessment (Jamille Nagtalon- Ramos) • Human Reproduction and Fertilization • Development of the Placenta, Membranes, and Amniotic Fluid • Embryonic and Fetal Development • Diagnosis and Dating of Pregnancy • Maternal Physiologic Adaptations to Pregnancy • Maternal Psychological/Social Changes in Pregnancy • Overview of Antepartum Care • Antepartum Visit • Common Discomforts of Pregnancy and Comfort Measures • Nutrition During Pregnancy • The Woman and Her Family and Their Role in Pregnancy • Teaching and Counseling • Pharmacologic Considerations in the Antepartum Period • Techniques Used to Assess Fetal Health • Selected Obstetric Complications • Medical Complications • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 7: Intrapartum and Postpartum (Kimberly K. Trout and jamille Nagtalon-Ramos) • Initial Assessment • Physical Examination • Diagnostic Studies • Management and Teaching • Mechanisms of Labor • Management of the First Stage of Labor • Management of the Second Stage of Labor • Delivery Management • Management of the Third Stage of Labor • Management of Immediate Newborn • Transition • Special Considerations and Deviations from Normal • The Normal Postpartum • Assessment of Maternal Response to Baby • Management Plan for the Postpartum Period • Postpartal Discomforts • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 8: Midwifery Care of the Newborn (Kimberly K. Trout) • Physiologic Transition to Extrauterine Life • Ongoing Extrauterine Transition • Immediate Care and Assessment of the Healthy • Newborn • Care During the First Hours After Birth • Plan of Care for the First Few Days of Life • Discharge Planning • Newborn Assessment • Primary Care of the Newborn for the First 6 Weeks • Common Variations from Normal Newborn Findings • Deviations from Normal • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 9: Common Health Problems in Primary Care (Beth M. Kelsey and Jamille Nagtalon-Ramos) • Cardiovascular Disorders • Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders • Lower Respiratory Disorders • Gastrointestinal Disorders • Hematologic Disorders • Immunologic Disorders • Endocrine Disorders • Musculoskeletal Disorders • Neurologic Disorders • Dermatologic Disorders • Psychosocial Problems • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Chapter 10: Professional Issues (Beth M. Kelsey and Kimberly K. Trout) • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) • Trends and Issues • Professional Components of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing • Healthcare Delivery Systems • Ethical and Legal Issues and Principles • Evidence- Based Practice • Questions • Answers with Rationales • Bibliography
Index
