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Using the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) guidelines correctly can make staffing the safest possible. When these staffing guidelines are followed appropriately, they allow for quality care and more time for the nurse to spend at the bedside with the patient.
Assessing, diagnosing, and treating disease risk factors specific to women. Distinguishing female gender differences in presentation and progression of health problems and responses to pharmacological agents and other therapies. Assessing social and physical environmental health risks, including teratogens, that impact childbearing.
Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (WHNP-BC) is the designation for a women's health nurse practitioner who has earned nursing board certification from the National Certification Corporation. [citation needed]
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
Nursing credentials and certifications are the various credentials and certifications that a person must have to practice nursing legally. Nurses' postnominal letters (abbreviations listed after the name) reflect their credentials—that is, their achievements in nursing education, licensure, certification, and fellowship.
Advanced practice nursing; Aesthetic nursing/cosmetic nursing; Ambulatory care nursing; Burn nursing; Camp nursing; Cardiac nursing; Cardiac Intervention nursing
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association; Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery [9] (IADNAM) European Nurse Directors Association [10] (ENDA) Migrant Nurses Ireland [11] (MNI) Nurse Practitioner Association of Canada (NPAC-AIIPC) National Black Nurses Association
The present-day concept of advanced practice nursing as a primary care provider was created in the mid-1960s, spurred on by a national shortage of physicians. [7] The first formal graduate certificate program for NPs was created by Henry Silver, a physician, and Loretta Ford, a nurse, in 1965. [7]