Course Description
Explore contemporary trends and controversies affecting women’s health issues through the life span. Topics include: menopause, hormonal therapy, sexuality, menstruation, birth control, common gynecologic disorders, infertility, sexually transmitted infections, PMS, health maintenance, and more.
Course Objectives:
- Describe assorted health issues that affect women. Review the role of the nurse in counseling women about health-related choices.
- Review the role of the nurse in counseling women about health-related choices
- Identify the components of health maintenance and good preventive healthcare for women
- Recognize events that occur during the process of sexual maturation
- Describe hormonal communications between the brain and the reproductive organs
About The Author(s)::
Elaine Weil - BA, RN, FPNP
Elaine Weil, BA, RN, FPNP, received her bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), her RN after completion of the basic curriculum for professional nursing at Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa, CA), and her certification as a Family Planning Nurse Practitioner from Educational Programs Associates (Campbell, CA). She received certification as a Clinical Nutritional Consultant from the Institute for Educational Therapy (Cotati, CA) and served on its faculty, teaching courses in women’s health. Elaine has studied Western herbology with David Hoffman, Kathi Keville, and Lois Johnson, MD. She has worked for many years as a clinician and health educator at Commonwoman’s Health Project (Santa Rosa, CA), a nonprofit clinic serving women of low income. Elaine has written health education materials, facilitated support groups, and conducted workshops on a variety of health topics.
Shelton Hisley - PhD, RNC, WHNP
Shelton M. Hisley, PhD, RNC, WHNP, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Graduate Clinical Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, is a women’s healthcare nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in the specialty of women’s health. She has conducted and published nursing research, served on national committees within her specialty, and presently serves on the editorial board for two peer-reviewed nursing journals. Shelton has a weekly practice in a women’s health clinic at a rural county health department.