Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide

For women's health and nurse practitioner courses.

An accessible handbook for women's health, for both students and primary health care providers
Building on the success of the previous edition, Women's Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide is an easy-to-reference resource meeting the needs of providers who offer women more than basic reproductive health care. It covers traditional reproductive and gynecologic topics, as well as health issues in general medical, psychosocial, developmental, and political realms. Updated with the latest practice standards, the 5th edition has a new chapter on substance use disorders and expanded coverage of complementary therapies and issues affecting lesbian, bisexual, and transgender populations.

About our authors

Dr. Diane Schadewald is a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) College of Nursing, where she has been since August 2013. Prior to her work at UWM she was a clinical assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. Dr. Schadewald received her Doctor of Nursing practice in 2008 from the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. She completed her Master of Science in nursing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1992. She has been a board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP) and family nurse practitioner (FNP) since 1993 and has worked in family practice or obstetric and gynecologic settings on a full- or part-time basis since becoming certified. Dr. Schadewald was a coauthor of the 4th edition of Women’s Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide, as well as being an author or coauthor of articles related to women’s health on topics of contraception, preconceptual health and postpartum depression. She has also been recognized by the National Certification Corporation for her work in developing test items for the WHNP certification exam. Dr. Schadewald has been active in a number of professional nursing organizations, including Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, Sigma Theta Tau International, Metro Milwaukee Nurse Practitioners and the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She is also a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and has served as the chair and cochair of NONPF’s Sexual and Reproductive Health SIG.

Dr. Ursula A. Pritham was on faculty most recently as associate professor and graduate program director at the School of Nursing, Georgia Southern University (GSU), in Statesboro, GA. She was full time at GSU from August 2011 to July 2017 until she resigned to assist her family by caring for her newborn granddaughter on a full-time basis. While caring for her granddaughter during infancy and toddlerhood, Dr. Pritham taught part time online for GSU from January to May 2018 and has continued her scholarly work by developing manuscripts for journals as well as coediting the 5th edition of Women’s Health: A Primary Care Clinical Guide. She plans to return to academia for the 2019/2020 academic year. Before moving to Georgia in 2011, she was faculty at the University of Maine (UM), School of Nursing, in Orono, ME, where she taught for 19 years. During her last year at UM, she also served as the graduate program coordinator. Dr. Pritham completed a Master of Education at the University of Southern California, a Master of Science in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, and a PhD in nursing and education at UM. Her dissertation was on the topic of opioid dependence in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome. She has published and presented on the topic of opioid dependency in pregnancy and length of stay for neonatal abstinence syndrome and breastfeeding promotion to manage neonatal abstinence syndrome. Dr. Pritham is board certified as a women’s health and family nurse practitioner and has practiced as such in Maine and Georgia. She is also a sexual assault nurse examiner, having worked for the Statesboro Regional Sexual Assault Center, Statesboro, GA.