Nursing Management of Women’s Health

Debra Holloway is a Nurse Consultant in gynaecology at Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. Her current clinical caseload is one-stop outpatient procedure clinics, mainly outpatient hysteroscopy. The clinic that she runs sees women who have bleeding problems, problems with IUS, cervical polyps and Post Menopausal bleeding.  She has trained both nursing and medical staff in outpatient hysteroscopy and manages a team of nurses within one stop clinics as well as the other Clinical Nurse specialists within the gynaecology department.Her other clinics include menopause, for which she is an accredited spacialist with the BMS; the clinic is jointly run with Professor Rymer and Dr. Bruce, which includes clinics for women with natural menopause, early menopause and menopause after cancer. She regularly speaks to women with breast cancer on a moving forward course in relation to menopause. In addition she has a joint clinic in the haemophilia centre for women with bleeding disorders and gynaecology problems such as Von Willibrands disease. This is run in conjunction with a consultant haematologist.Debby is the deputy module lead for the  gynaecology nursing course at KCL, for which she organises this, teaches and marks the assignments. She has also published both books and articles in relation to women’s health.Her background is in gynaecology nursing, where she has held a number of posts from staff nurse to Clinical Nurse Manager, before returning to this clinical role.Debby is currently the chair of the RCN women’s health forum and through this has had many publications and conferences.In 2016 Debby received an honorary fellowship to the RCOG, the first nurse to receive this and in 2017 received a fellowship of the RCN.

“The intended audience includes clinical nurse specialists, advanced nurse practitioners, and nurse consultants in women's health. … This book is enjoyable to read, and I would recommend it for nurse specialists in both education and practice. … A strength of this book beyond its readability is that it incorporates issues that are important to many women enduring these health concerns and how best to handle or guide them.” (Susan M Yount, Doody's Book Reviews, November 22, 2019)

• Chapter 1: The Role of the Specialist Nurse Within Gynecology.- Chapter 2: Menstrual and Hormonal Dysfunction.- Chapter 3: Colposcopy and Cervical Problems.- Chapter 4: Adolescent Gynecology.- Chapter 5: Pain and Endometriosis.- Chapter 6: Fertility.- Chapter 7: Complications in Early Pregnancy.- Chapter 8: Abortion.- Chapter 9: Effects of Cancer Treatments.- Chapter 10: Menopause.- Chapter 11: Urogynecology.- Chapter 12: Ambulatory and Outpatient Procedures.- Chapter 13: Nursing in Sexual Health and Contraception.- Chapter 14: Insurance, Autonomy, Training and Accountability.