This conference focuses on Nurse Led Care, Services and Prescribing in Urology. Through national updates and practical case study based sessions from nurses leading urology services the conference will support you to develop your skills and improve services and patient care.
The conference will include extended sessions focusing setting up and running nurse led services, and on developing your skills in nurse prescribing practice as well as case study sessions from specialist speakers focusing on rapid assessment, the role of the Nurse Cystocospist, prostate assessment, managing lower urinary tract symptoms, catheterisation, bladder cancer, patient initiated follow up and learning from a nurse led botox service.
"Specialist nurses are right at the centre of high quality urological care”
“An estimated 1 in 2 of us will be diagnosed with a urological condition at some stage in our lives”
“The report recommends changes to service configuration within trusts, changes to staffing arrangements – extending the role of specialist nurses and asking consultants to focus more on emergency care”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are leading services in urology
- Champion the role of the specialist urology nurse and address staffing shortages
- Reflect on the development of nurse specialist roles and nurse led services in urology
- Improve access to patients with common urological conditions through nurse led rapid access assessment clinics, reducing hospital admissions
- Develop confidence and competence in expanded roles
- Maintain prescribing competence and assess competence against the National Competency Framework for all Prescribers
- Improve your skills in making and receiving referrals, history taking, assessment and diagnosis and prescribing practice
- Explore how nurse prescribing can improve practice and patient care
- Develop your skills, confidence and competence as a nurse prescriber in Cardiology
- Improve and lead follow up services and understand the benefits of patient initiated follow up
- Learn from nurses leading services through case studies on rapid assessment, the role of the Nurse Cystocospist, prostate assessment, managing lower urinary tract symptoms, catheterisation, bladder cancer, patient initiated follow up and learning from a nurse led botox service.
- Develop your skills in auditing and evaluating your nurse led service
- Improve your leadership skills and ensure self care and work life balance
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
