Women’s Health Assignment

Some health issues, including heart disease, depression, and autoimmune disease, present more frequently in women than in men. Others, including ovarian cancer and pregnancy issues, are obviously exclusive to the female population. Nurse practitioners focused on women’s healthcare become well-versed in these health issues and apply their expertise to helping to screen for and offer care for patients with these conditions.
For this Discussion, you will select a specific women’s health issue. You will research this issue, and share common symptoms, recommended diagnostic tests, and common treatments.

Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider the different types of women’s health issues.
• Choose a women’s health issue from the following list and once you have selected an issue, search the Walden Library and/or the Internet regarding the health issue symptoms, diagnostic tests, and common treatments:
• ONLY NEED TO PICK ONE ISSUE FROM LIST
• Osteoporosis
• Bladder Issues
• Pre-diabetes
• Thyroid
• Hypertension
• Seizure Disorders
• Psychiatric Disorder
Part 1: By Day 3
Based on the issue you chose, post a description of the issue you chose and your explanation of common symptoms, recommended diagnostic tests, and common treatments. Be specific and provide examples. Use the evidence from your search of the literature to support your explanation of the woman’s health issue you chose.
Part 2: By Day 5
Next, post your responses to the following questions related to the issue you wrote about in Part 1.
• Osteoporosis – What are your options for primary prevention? How would you educate someone on the treatment?
• Bladder Issues – What exactly are the symptoms? What about Interstitial cystitis (IC) and pelvic pain?
• Thyroid – What symptoms occur in women? What can you discern from that? What about infertility?
• Pre-diabetes – Are there menstrual irregularities? What types of medication are they taking? What about pregnancy plans?
• Hypertension – What medications are appropriate for a woman of reproductive age? Should you counsel the woman on appropriate dieting?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Women form part of the most vulnerable population for some health issues; one of such issues being hypertension. The prevalence as well as the severity of this condition is higher in women especially at an advanced age. Certain forms of hypertension such as those associated with menopause, use of oral contraceptives and pregnancy are also known to occur exclusively in women (Johnson et al., 2015). However, research indicates that gender should not form the basis of deciding which blood pressure lowering therapy one should use. This task presents the symptoms, diagnostic tests and common treatment options that can be implemented for hypertension.
Symptoms
Men and women often present similar symptoms for hypertension. The most critical aspect about the hypertension is that someone may not know that they have the condition. Malta et al. (2015) argues that approximately a third of people that have hypertension often don’t know that they have the condition. The reason is that hypertension may not present any symptoms at the onset until the condition turns out to…