Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · February 1, 2025
Children with medical complexity utilize health care at increased rates, and their caregivers feel unprepared to care for their child at home. Through a pretest/posttest design, this quality improvement project explored using telemedicine following hospita ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for women's health · December 2024
ObjectiveTo increase patients' knowledge and access to genetic carrier screening (GCS) in a gynecologic setting by implementing a protocol to universally offer GCS education and screening to reproductive-age women during the preconception period a ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynaecol Obstet · October 25, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with complications during pregnancy and can negatively influence maternal outcomes. Our study aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of maternal morbidity among participants enrolled in an eight- ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · October 1, 2024
Substance use disorder continues to pose significant challenges in the United States, with increasing opioid-related fatalities. Residential recovery treatment programs are effective; however, high attrition rates impact successful long-term outcomes. This ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for women's health · June 2024
ObjectiveTo improve screening for depression in patients who are initiating fertility treatment at a reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) center by screening all patients at their initial visit using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 ...
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ConferenceJournal of pediatric hematology/oncology nursing · May 2024
Background: As the majority of pediatric patients with cancer survive their disease, generating a population of over 500,000 childhood cancer survivors in the United States, it is imperative to minimize the lifelong consequences of treatment, which ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · January 2024
BackgroundOpioid use disorder (OUD) has been increasing in pregnant patients over the past two decades. Best practice guidelines that are available for these patients, must now be implemented by health care teams. Clinical checklists have been use ...
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Journal ArticleF&S reports · December 2023
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a novel online orientation program (Nurses in REI Communication, Knowledge, and Skills [NRCKS]) among new and early-career reproductive endocrinology nurses to make recommendations for program quality impr ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for Women's Health · December 1, 2023
Comprehensive fertility care has been reduced in many parts of the United States following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2022 in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. Because ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · July 2023
OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of infertility and infertility treatment seeking among people enrolled in the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium (SCDIC) registry and identify sociodemographic and clinical correlates of infertility. DESIGN: ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of men's health · July 2023
While family planning (FP) programs have the capacity to empower women, support gender equality, and reduce poverty, male involvement is an influential factor for the uptake of FP that has been lacking. In the past decade, there have been more progressive ...
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Journal ArticlePlastic and aesthetic nursing · April 2023
The field of aesthetics is expanding more rapidly than ever before, bringing with it an influx of new-to-aesthetics patients who lack industry knowledge. We investigated ways to bridge this gap in knowledge and provide patients with important procedural in ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for women's health · October 2022
Disordered eating and subthreshold eating disorders can affect fertility. A negative cumulative energy balance that occurs through inadequate nutrition and excessive exercise is often found in individuals engaging in disordered eating behaviors; these disr ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of perinatal education · July 2022
Lack of knowledge on the impact of infant development and behavior on breastfeeding affects both professionals and the clients they serve. Continuing education for Nevada WIC professionals with the online HUG Your Baby course Roadmap to Breastfeeding Su ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of men's health · July 2022
Sexual and reproductive health care (SRH) and family planning (FP) services have been primarily female centered. In recent decades, international groups have advocated for men's involvement in SRH and FP, yet related research remains limited and implementa ...
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ConferenceF&S reports · May 2022
ObjectiveTo provide a comprehensive and multidimensional description and conceptualization of the experiences of Black women seeking treatment for infertility.DesignConvergent parallel mixed-methods study combining retrospective chart rev ...
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Journal ArticleF and S Reviews · January 1, 2022
Objective: To provide a comprehensive review of the literature that examines facilitators and barriers to infertility treatment seeking among women who experience infertility in the United States. Evidence Review: This review followed the Preferred Reporti ...
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Journal ArticleHuman fertility (Cambridge, England) · July 2021
Female fertility is a complex phenomenon. Biological, personal, social and political factors shape this experience. Race, a social construction, was created to justify discriminative political and economic practices. Therefore, 'Black' differentiates the f ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of midwifery & women's health · July 2021
IntroductionPerinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the most common complication during pregnancy and postpartum. Screening, diagnosis, and treatment for these disorders are inhibited by limited mental health resources for patients and health car ...
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Journal ArticleBritish journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) · May 2021
Male-factor infertility is a common but stigmatised issue, and men often do not receive the emotional support and the information they need. This study sought to understand awareness of male fertility issues compared to female fertility among the UK genera ...
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Journal ArticleHuman fertility (Cambridge, England) · April 2021
The objective was to examine what young graduate student women know about preserving fertility/oocyte cryopreservation, and which reproductive resources they use. A prospective, cross-sectional design was used and the study was conducted at a University on ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · January 2021
BackgroundGastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common digestive complaint that can negatively affect patients' quality of life and have serious complications if inadequately treated.Local problemFacilitating prompt and efficient ac ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2021
INTRODUCTION: Sex-based clinical outcome differences in sickle cell disease (SCD) remain largely unknown despite evidence that female sex is associated with an increased lifespan. To better characterize sex-based differences in SCD, we assessed pain, treat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · July 1, 2020
A women's health nurse practitioner (WHNP) provides comprehensive care to women from menarche through senescence. Nurse practitioner curriculum prepares competent WHNPs by integrating both practice and clinical knowledge in the context of women's values. W ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · November 1, 2019
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease, characterized by goiter, hyperthyroidism, and ophthalmopathy. Many symptoms resemble typical transient childhood illnesses, and providers can miss subtle clues or attribute them to adolescent developmental aging. T ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · November 2019
ObjectiveTo determine the feasibility of recruitment and explore whether women and their partners who conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF) experience greater levels of stress and anxiety during pregnancy compared to each other and compared to ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of American college health : J of ACH · October 2019
Objective: To implement the Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Quality Improvement (LARC QI) project using evidence-based contraceptive counseling techniques to improve knowledge and intent to use among college females. Participants: The pr ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for women's health · August 2019
A nurse reflects on what her daughters have picked up from her career in maternity nursing, education, and research. ...
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Journal ArticleHealth psychology open · July 2019
In this article, we sought to understand the adaptive challenges and work faced by men with male factor infertility. Using a prospective qualitative study in private (the United States) and academic (the United Kingdom) urology clinics, we recruited seven ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · March 2019Full textCite
Journal ArticleTeaching and Learning in Nursing · October 1, 2018
To allay anxiety about the maternity clinical experience, nursing faculty developed a simulation to enable prelicensure students to rehearse their 1st day on the maternity unit. Results from student feedback on Maternity Boot Camp indicate that students fe ...
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Journal ArticleMCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing · July 2018
BackgroundDuring labor, effective communication and collaboration among the healthcare team is critical for patient safety; however, there is currently no standard for communication and documentation of the plan of care as agreed upon by healthcar ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · July 2018
ObjectiveTo describe the psychological stress and quality of life experienced by women who underwent fertility treatment in Taiwan.DesignCross-sectional, correlational study.SettingRecruitment was conducted and questionnaires adm ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of nursing education scholarship · June 2018
Abstract In most schools of nursing, students rate their satisfaction with courses and teachers at the end of the semester. Low response rates on these evaluations make it difficult to interpret the results. Students were incentivized to complete their cou ...
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Journal ArticleNursing for women's health · October 2017
Advancements in methods of fertility preservation have resulted in more options available to women seeking to postpone reproduction. Preservation of unfertilized oocytes provides women with the possibility for reproduction even after age-related declines i ...
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Journal ArticleHuman fertility (Cambridge, England) · September 2017
Male factor infertility (MFI) is extremely common, often with several associated chronic health conditions. Because a man's fertility assessment may be their first contact with health services, the health care team has a responsibility to act as male healt ...
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Journal ArticleResearch and theory for nursing practice · August 2017
PurposeTo explore relationships among the 3 psychological dimensions of stress, stimulus/environmental, perceptual, and emotional response, and then to develop a multidimensional composite measure of overall stress, and to determine demographic an ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of nursing administration · June 2017
The most frequent cause of sentinel events is poor communication during the nurse-to-nurse handoff process. Standardized methods of handoff do not fit in every patient care setting. The aims of this quality improvement project were to successfully implemen ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of midwifery & women's health · March 2017
IntroductionA growing number of women are seeking alternatives to traditional pharmacologic pain management during birth. While there has been an extensive array of nonpharmacologic options developed for labor, there are limited offerings in the p ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Reproduction and Infertility · January 1, 2017
Background: Research supports that in vitro fertilization causes anxiety and that anxiety can continue into the resulting pregnancy. Most women who have IVF will have a less invasive treatment for infertility prior to IVF; however, it is unclear if specifi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · January 2016
When couples cannot achieve pregnancy, they often seek health care from medical and nursing specialists. The care the couple receives begins with a thorough assessment to determine the possible cause of infertility and to plan appropriate care to ensure th ...
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