NURS 709 Advanced Family Nursing Practice for Women's Health

This course focuses on the family nurse practitioner role in addressing women's health throughout the lifespan in regards to health promotion, disease prevention, early detection of health problems, treatment and management of acute and chronic health conditions. Key points include the role of gender in health care policy, pharmacologic therapies for women's health conditions, Healthy People 2020 recommendations for eliminating women's health care disparities, and the use of evidence-based practice to inform the treatment and management of women' health care issues.