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Title: WOMEN VETERANS UNIQUE and SPECIAL NEEDS


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WOMEN VETERANS UNIQUE and SPECIAL NEEDS
  • Safe Patient Handling Program
  • Tampa, Florida
  • Sept 15-18, 2008
  • Peggy Mikelonis ANP-BC, MS, NE-BC
  • Lead Women Veterans Program Manager VISN 8

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OVERVIEW
  • Increasing number of women veterans
  • Access
  • Needs
  • Primary Care/Gender Specific Care
  • Provider needs
  • Equipment needs
  • Women Veterans with Special Needs
  • Who, What, Why and How

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Women Veterans Using VA
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More women veterans on the way
  • Freshman class of women military
  • Army 20
  • Navy 20
  • Air Force 28
  • Marines 6

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Age groups Women Veterans Using VA
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The OIF/OEF Woman Veteran Impacts VA
  • She is utilizing VA Services 42.2 enroll
  • She is coming to VA frequently
  • 45.6 were seen 2-10 visits
  • 38.5 seen 11 or more times since 2002

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DemographicsAgeN 94,010 Women Veterans
VA Healthcare Utilization Among 94,010 Female
OIF/OEF Veterans Through 1st Qtr. FY 2008
Environmental Epidemiology Service
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VHA Health Policy
  • Gender specific care is primary care
  • Challenge How to provide sufficient numbers of
    interested and proficient primary care providers
    for women veterans
  • One stop shop and what it means Her primary care
    provider provides gender specific care
  • Mental Health integration into Primary care is
    essential for womens healthcare

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VA Challenge
  • Responding to influx of women
  • Proficient Providers
  • Training Programs
  • Nurses, Support staff
  • Appropriate and adequate equipment
  • Tables (hi-lo) for breast and pelvic exams
  • Gynecological equipment for handicapped women

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  • WHO are these Women Veterans?
  • WHAT are their special Needs?
  • WHAT is different?
  • WHY do we need to focus on
  • this issue now?
  • HOW do we care for them?

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Who are WV with special needs??
  • Young. Old
  • Single , Married, Divorced, Same
  • sex partners
  • Have young children
  • Employed, unemployed
  • Homeless
  • Various racial, ethnic, cultural and
    religious backgrounds

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What are some of the Special Needs??
  • Amputees
  • Polytrauma
  • TBI
  • Burn victims
  • Survivors of MST (military sexual trauma)

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Diagnosis same as men but not treated the same
  • SCI
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Mobility limitations
  • Blind
  • Obesity
  • Stroke victims
  • Multiple sclerosis

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UNIQUE Women's NEEDS
  • Gynecological Disorders
  • Bleeding disorders
  • Cancers (cervical, ovarian, uterine, vulvar)
  • Infertility
  • Pregnancies
  • Breast cancer
  • Reconstruction
  • Implants
  • Self image issues

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Why do we need to be concerned?
  • Equal but not the Same
  • New generation of veterans
  • NEW FACE of VA
  • Training needs
  • PRIVACY and SAFETY

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HOW DO WE DO IT
  • It takes a VILLAGE
  • Address/focus on women in every new program
    developed, equipment purchased, policies
    developed, and staff hired at your facilities
  • Work with Local WVPM
  • Be INVOLVED
  • THANK a WOMAN VETERAN FOR HER SERVICE

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  • YOU SERVE, YOU DESERVE
  • THE BEST CARE ANYWHERE
  • QUESTIONS???
  • COMMENTS
  • Thank you
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