Advances in Family Practice Nursing, 2021

Description

Each year, Advances in Family Practice Nursing focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in primary care aimed at the family care nurse practitioner. Dr. Geri Reeves and her editorial board, comprised of top experts in the areas of pediatrics, adult/geriatric, and women's health have assembled authors to bring the following topics to publication in this year's edition: Older Adults and Driving Cessation: Knowing When and How to Approach the Conversation; Vaccination Update for Adults; Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Older Adults: Diagnosis and Management; Assessment and Management of Constipation in Older Adults; Dementia or Delirium: The Dilemma in Differentiating Diagnoses; Evidence-Based Care for Pregnancy Complicated by Obesity: What a Primary Care Provider Should Know; Update for Pap guidelines including HPV management; Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause - Screening and Treatment; Mammogram Update; Smoking and Maternal Health: Evidence that Female Infertility Can be Attributed to Smoking and Improved with Smoking Cessation; Opioid Use Disorder Screening for Women Across the Lifespan; Pharmacology Update in Pediatrics; Pediatric Infectious Disease and Influenza Vaccine Update; and Pain Management in Pediatrics.Readers will come away with the clinical information that supplements their professional knowledge so they can make informed clinical decisions that improve patient outcomes in pediatric, adult/geriatric, and female patients.

Author Information

Edited by Geri C Reeves, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN