Join us on Sunday December 21, 2008 when we speak with Helen Carcio about starting your own independent practice specializing in incontinence. Helen is the founder and director of the successful Health & Continence Institute. She now offers training to NPs who wish to do the same. Helen was recently awarded the “Outside the Box” for Advance NP Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her practice and training of NPs to develop their own Continence Centers.
This promises to be a very eye opening evening.
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Wonderful call this evening.
Replay will be posted shortly at http://www.NursePractitionerBusinessOwner.com
In the meantime, if you didn’t get Helen’s article yet, you will find it at http://www.npinterviews.com/contcare.pdf
Helen’s website is http://www.BladderHealthCenter.com
Replay: http://www.nursepractitionerbusinessowner.com/public/237.cfm
It’s avail for 1 week for everyone before it goes into the Member Only section of NPBO.
Hello Barbara: I hope that you all are safe and doing ok out there in Washington state… of course I have seen the weather conditions on T.V. I am sooooo glad that I finally got an opportunity to listen in on the NP interview with Ms. Carcio.
I also read this bit of information on the Henry Schein e-newsletter December 2008…. it is very much related to her discussion on bladder health… If it is too lengthy then I understand… that you may not be able to post it… I will also email it to Ms. Carcio
Symptomatic Pelvic Floor Disorder Very Common Among U.S. Women
Nearly one quarter of adult women in the U.S. are affected by a pelvic floor disorder, such as urinary or fecal incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse, according to data from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The prevalence of these conditions rises with increasing age, parity, and body weight.
Because the national burden related to these disorders is unknown, the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network requested that this issue be investigated in the 2005-2006 NHANES. As a result, 1961 non-pregnant women age 20 years and older were interviewed regarding pelvic floor symptoms and underwent standardized physical examinations.
The weighted prevalence of at least one pelvic floor disorders was 23.7%. The proportion of women reporting at least one disorder increased from 9.7% of women in their 20s and 30s, to 49.7% of those in their 80s.
Lead author Dr. Ingrid Nygaard, at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, and co-investigators report their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“Given the burden pelvic floor disorders place on U.S. women and the health care system, research is needed to further understand their pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment,” Dr. Nygaard and her colleagues conclude.