During the perinatal and postpartum period, women are vulnerable to mental health disorders. Primary care providers skilled at screening, diagnosing, treating mother for depression. However, anxiety demonstrates a greater prevalence rate appears be under-recognized under-treated, despite its increased prevalence. With frequent patient encounters during pregnancy in nurse practitioners have oppo...

OBJECTIVES After participating in the CME activity, primary care physicians should be able to: 1. Identify barriers to adequate pain management 2. Describe the key elements of pain assessment 3. Describe the principles of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of cancer pain 4. Understand the approach to use of analgesic agents presented in the World Health Organization analgesic ladder ...