The Nurse Practitioner in Urology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lajiness, Michelle (Editor), Quallich, Susanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nursing administration.; Occupational medicine.; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nursing Management/Nursing Research.; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.

This book is designed to meet the needs of nurse practitioners and other Advanced Practice Nurses, as well as physician assistants, working in urology. The full range of domains of practice is covered, including assessment and diagnosis, clinical management, nurse practitioner and patient relationsh...

Table of Contents:

• Scope of practice, guidelines, clinical privileging
• Transitioning pediatric urology patients to adult urology practices
• Men's health, hypogonadism and fertility overview
• Evaluation and management of common scrotal conditions
• Erectile dysfunction
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Prostatitis
• Urologic dermatology
• Stone disease
• Stricture and trauma
• Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis
• Urodynamics
• Neurogenic bladder
• Stress incontinence
• Overactive bladder
• Underactive bladder
• Women's urology
• Painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis
• Prostate cancer.-Bladder and urothelial cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Penile and testicular cancers.-Geriatric urology
• Office management
• Procedures for the nurse practitioner in urology
• Uroradiology
• Coding issues.