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Women’s Health
Continuing Education Courses
The AANP CE Center offers a wide variety of continuing education (CE) activities for nurse practitioners (NPs). Members of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) get more, including access to many free activities and significantly discounted rates on others. The activities are updated frequently, and more than a dozen women's health-related options are currently available.
NP Tools and Resources
AANP-developed resources to support NPs in treating your patients.
3 Minutes Make a Difference — Evidence-Based Strategies for Shared Decision-Making in Clinical Practice
Learn how just three minutes of meaningful dialogue can strengthen trust, improve outcomes and support patient-centered care. Empower your patients to make informed, evidence-based choices through shared decision-making (SDM). This infographic highlights key SDM principles such as choice awareness, values clarification and partnership building — and provides practical communication models like the Three-Talk Model, Ask-Tell-Ask and the 5A’s Framework.
Ask the Immunization Experts
This "Ask the Immunization Experts" handout compiles real-world vaccine questions from clinicians and evidence-based answers from nationally recognized immunization experts, addressing common clinical, communication and systems-level challenges NPs face in daily practice. It provides practical guidance on vaccine timing; safety; hesitancy; billing and documentation; evolving recommendations; and patient-centered counseling strategies — making it immediately applicable across primary care, urgent care, inpatient and community settings. For NPs, this resource is important because it strengthens confidence, saves time at the point of care and equips NPs with clear, science-based messaging to improve patient outcomes and vaccine uptake.
This educational activity is supported by independent medical educational grants from GSK, Merck & Co., Inc, Moderna and Sanofi US.
Implementing Lipid-Lowering Therapeutics in Your Clinical Practice: A Practical Guide for the Nurse Practitioner
The AANP Clinical Resource Tool for Lipid-Lowering Therapeutics empowers NPs with practical, evidence-based strategies to optimize cholesterol management and reduce cardiovascular risk. Designed as a quick reference guide, it highlights guideline-directed statin and nonstatin therapies; clinical pearls for improving adherence; and tips for overcoming common challenges such as side effects and insurance barriers. With actionable insights and patient-centered approaches, this resource equips NPs to confidently implement lipid-lowering therapies and improve long-term outcomes in their practice.
This activity is supported by educational grant funding provided by Amgen and Novartis.
Is Your Child Protected Against HPV-Related Cancers?
This informative handout for the NP has been developed to facilitate conversations about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination with patients and their families. It provides an overview of the types of cancers that HPV can cause and discusses the rationale for why the vaccination should be administered during childhood for optimal protection. This handout displays the HPV vaccination schedule and also addresses some common questions and concerns that families may have about HPV vaccination.
This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc.
The NP’s Guide to Helping Patients Reach Lipid Targets
This practical handout for the NP includes helpful information about the evaluation of patients with lipid abnormalities, risk assessment and treatment decision-making, and strategies for mitigating and managing side effects of statins. Resources are provided for managing the cost of medications.
Supported by an educational grant from Novartis.
Patient Education Tools and Resources
Menopause Tool
Women experience perimenopause and menopause in a wide variety of ways. Yet, NPs who may be the best positioned to help prepare women for this transition and provide timely treatment may not recognize the burden of systemic and genitourinary symptoms or how they affect their patient’s quality-of-life. In addition, NPs must be able to adapt to the patient’s evolving needs and to consider how health disparities may impact women differently across racial and ethnic backgrounds.
This resource is supported by an independent educational grant from Pfizer as part of the program, “The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Menopausal Women and the NP Role”.
AANP Community
Engage, Learn, Network and Progress Practice in Women's Health
The AANP Women's Health Community offers a unique opportunity to interactively collaborate with colleagues who share an interest or clinical expertise in women's health. As a community member, you’ll have access to a cutting-edge, online forum where you can engage in discussions, document sharing and knowledge exchange with fellow NPs. Come learn, share and help progress the development of theory and practice in women's health.
External Resources
Conveniently Curated Information From Other Top Sources
There are many resources available for both patients and providers. Some are listed below for your convenience. Inclusion of these links does not imply AANP endorsement.