

Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Midwifery Certification Review Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 1st Edition
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Prepare your students for success on the WHNP and CNM certification exams with this comprehensive review! Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Midwifery Certification Review provides 1,000 multiple-choice questions based on the exam blueprints, with answers and rationales at the end of each chapter. Using those 1,000 questions, students can generate an unlimited number of 150-question practice tests reflecting the type of questions found on the actual exams. Written by nursing educator JoAnn Zerwekh and contributors who are WNHPs and CNMs, this review includes test-taking tips and realistic online practice to ensure exam readiness!
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- 1,000 multiple-choice questions in the book are accompanied by answers and detailed rationales for correct answers.
- Practice exams on the Evolve website are selected from the book’s questions to create a virtually unlimited number of 150-question tests, including automated grading and feedback, with each exam designed to match the length and question distribution of the actual certification exams.
- Review of WHNP (Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner) and midwifery reflects the latest evidence-based clinical practice and national treatment guidelines and protocols, with separate sections covering physical assessment and diagnostic tests, gynecology and family planning, obstetrics, primary care, and professional issues.
- Test-Taking Strategies chapter uses test examples to offer tips and techniques to improve your study habits and testing skills, increase critical thinking, and decrease anxiety.
- Primary Care chapters each follow a standard format: Disorders and Pharmacology.
- Special QSEN safety icons highlight and emphasize questions related to the graduate-level Safety competency of the Quality & Safety Education for Nurses initiative.
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1. Test-Taking Strategies
• Certification Exam Information
• Testing Strategies
• Techniques to Increase Critical Thinking Skills
• Testing Skills for Paper-and-Pencil Tests
• Successful Test Taking
• Decrease Anxiety
• Study Habits
PART I: PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
2. Physical Assessment
• Health History
• Physical Exam
3. Diagnostic Tests
• Reproductive
• Pregnancy
• Urinary
• Cardiac
• Respiratory
• HEENT
• Endocrine
• Musculoskeletal
• Gastrointestinal and Liver
• Hematology
PART II: GYNECOLOGY AND FAMILY PLANNING
4. Gynecology
• Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction
• Family Planning
• Disorders
• Male Issues Affecting Women’s Health
• Pharmacology
PART III: OBSTETRICS
5. Antepartum
• Physiology of Pregnancy
• Antepartum Care
• Complications
• Pharmacology
6. Intrapartum (Midwifery only)
• Intrapartum Care
• Pharmacology
7. Postpartum
• Postpartum Care
• Pharmacology
8. Neonatal Care (Midwifery only)
• Newborn
• Pharmacology
PART IV: PRIMARY CARE
9. Health Promotion and Maintenance
• Health Screening
• Immunizations
10. Cardiovascular
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
11. Respiratory
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
12. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat (HEENT)
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
13. Integumentary
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
14. Endocrine
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
15. Musculoskeletal
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
16. Neurology
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
17. Gastrointestinal and Liver
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
18. Hematology
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
19. Urinary
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
20. Mental Health
• Disorders
• Pharmacology
PART V: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
21. Professional Issues (WHNP only)
• Research and Evidence-Based Practice
• Legal and Ethical
• Patient Safety
• Issues and Trends -
JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, RN, President/CEO,Nursing Education Consultants, Inc,Chandler, Arizona