Women's health care is something that impacts across all healthcare setting, from contraception/pre-birth, adolescence to old age and death. The role of the nurse is to recognise the diversity of needs and expectations associated with delivering a high quality, humanistic approach to health, and would hope to empower women, from a personal heath perspective, to access the best available healthcare. Use this guide to find information resources about women’s health including books, reports and journal articles.
Royal College of Nursing (2018) HPV, cervical screening and cervical cancer: an RCN guidance, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2019) Nurse specialist in menopause, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing Women’s Health Forum (2017) Women's health pocket guides, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2017) Menopause. RCN guidance for nurses, midwives and health visitors, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2016) Female genital mutilation: an RCN resource for nursing and midwifery practice (3rd edition), London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2016) Female genital mutilation: RCN guidance for sexual health care, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2016) Genital examination in women: a resource for skills development and assessment (3rd edition), London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2017) Modern slavery pocket guide, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2017) Termination of pregnancy, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2017) Clinical nurse specialist in early pregnancy care, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2018) Clinical nurse specialist in endometriosis, London, RCN.
Alexander I, Johnson-Mallard V, Kostas-Polston E et al. (2016) Women's health care in advanced practice nursing, New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Carcio H (2014) Advanced health assessment of women: clinical skills and procedures, New York: Springer.
Davidson M (2012) A nurse’s guide to women’s mental health, New York: Springer.
Garner J (2014) Women and healthy aging: living productively in spite of it all, London: Routledge.
Goldman M (2013) Women and health, London: Academic Press.
Guillebaud J and Macgregor A (editors) (2017) Contraception: your questions answered, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Gupta S (2009) Oxford handbook of women’s health nursing, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holloway D (2019) Nursing management of women’s health: a guide for nurse specialists and practitioners, London: Springer.
Keen A (2011) Women’s cancers, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Kenny L and Bickerstaff H (editors) (2017) Gynaecology by ten teachers, Boca Raton, CRC Press.
Schuiling K and Likis F (2016) Women's gynecologic health, Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Symonds I (2013) Essential obstetrics and gynaecology, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Journals of interest for women's health. Use these links to see details of availability.
RCN exhibition: The wandering womb 
Graham H (1993) Hardship and health in women’s lives, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Moscucci O (1993) The science of woman: gynaecology and gender in England 1800-1929, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nelson J (2015) More than medicine: a history of the feminist women’s health movement, New York: New York University Press.
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