Albrecht Women’s Care Denver IVF, Englewood, CO
July 2012
Smart, compassionate and humble are the first three adjectives that come to mind to describe Traci Shahan, , RN, CNS, WHNP-BC, Doctor of Nursing. She describes herself “first and very staunchly so, an advocate for women.” Years of education behind her (just look at her credentials above), Shahan is a nurse practitioner with Albrecht Women’s Care Denver IVF in Englewood Colorado. FertilityAuthority is pleased to honor Traci Shahan as Nurse of the Month. 
As a nurse practitioner, Shahan can make diagnoses, treat conditions and prescribe medications. “Sixty percent of what I have to do is with ultrasound, and my ultrasound skills are what I’m most proud of,” she says. “We do cool, cutting edge procedures with ultrasound.” For example, Shahan performs the FemVueTM hysterosalpingogram, which uses saline and air instead of x-ray dye (as in a traditional hysterosalpingogram or HSG) to image the fallopian tube and uterine cavity. This way, the patient does not have to have an outpatient procedure with a radiologist. “We do FemVue in office, but it takes really nuanced ultrasound skills to do it well. It’s essentially pulsed saline and air, and you can see it travel through the uterus and fallopian tubes. It gives you a very good view to make sure that the tubes are patent or open and that the uterine cavity looks normal,” Shahan explains. “I love it because I worry about having a lot of radiation to the ovaries."
