About the Author

Jill C. Cash, MSN, APN, FNP -BC, is a Nurse Practitioner at Logan Primary Care in a rural clinical setting in Illinois. She is a Clinical Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner students in her practice for various NP clinical programmes. Her previous experience includes High Risk Obstetrics as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has taught nursing at Southeastern Illinois College Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where she taught in the FNP graduate programme and Southeast Missouri State University. Ms. Cash is co-editor of the first two editions of Family Practice Guidelines. She specialises in women's health care.

Cheryl A. Glass, MSN, WHNP, RN-BC, is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who currently practises as a Clinical Research Specialist for KePRO in TennCare's Medical Solutions Unit in Nashville TN. She is also Clinical Instructor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Previously, she was a Clinical Trainer and Trainer Manager for Healthways/American Healthways. Her previous practise as an NP was as Clinical Research Coordinator at Nashville Clinical Research and as Collaborative Clinical OB Practice with the Director and Assistant Directors of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of OB /GYN. Ms. Glass is the author of several book chapters and is co-editor of the first two editions of Family Practice Guidelines. She has published five refereed journal articles. In 1999, Ms. Glass was named Tennessee Chapter AWHONN Nurse of the Year.