Alerts for Nurse Practitioners: Caring for Pregnant Women with Zika Virus.

Abstract

There have been 3,625 cases of Zika virus in the United States and 22,069 cases in the U.S. Territories (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016a). As a result, Zika virus is rapidly becoming a major health problem in certain areas of the United States. The CDC is reporting valuable data and clinical recommendations almost every month. With this rapid dissemination of information, it is difficult for most health-care providers to keep up. Therefore, this article was written to provide health-care providers with the most current information (as of September, 2016)for managing patients with Zika virus.