Main description:

This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care, and uroradiology. This book is designed to meet the needs of nurse practitioners, advanced practice nurses globally and physician assistants working in urology. Content assumes some background knowledge regarding the normal anatomy and physiology of the genitourinary system and the pathophysiology underlying specific urologic health-related problems. This ensures that the provider can pursue exemplary management of patients with acute and chronic urologic conditions in a wide variety of settings, including independent practices, and academic urologic practices. This manual fills the gaps that traditional curricula may have left, permitting the reader to proceed with confident management of adult patients with urologic care needs, promoting the role of a skilled clinician in urology, especially for chronic, non-operative urologic conditions while recognizing those conditions which may benefit from surgical management.As the burden of urologic disease increases with an aging U.S. population, it is increasingly clear that nurse practitioners and physician assistants will be called on to move into roles caring for patients with urologic disease. Use of NPs and PAs to their highest education will become an increasingly important strategy for maintaining access and reducing costs, in the context of urologist workforce that is shrinking. However, urology topics receive sporadic attention in NP and PA curricula, leaving practicing NPs and PAs with gaps in their knowledge concerning trends and recommendations for management of urologic health conditions. As this demand for provider visits for urologic concerns increases, the demand for provider services to care for patients with urologic health concerns will also increase, and presents the opportunity for both NPs and PAs to move into specialty practice environments within urology.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction Michelle Lajiness and Susanne Quallich

1. Transitioning pediatric urology patients to adult urology practices Michelle McGarry

2. Basics of hypogonadism evaluation and management Ken Mitchell

3. Evaluation and management of common scrotal/genital conditions

4. Erectile dysfunction and men's sexual health Jeff Albaugh

5. Benign prostatic hyperplasia Gina Powley

6. Hematuria Becky Thorne

7. Prostatitis and chronic male pelvic pain Susanne Quallich

8. Stone disease Marc Crisenbery

9. Urethral stricture, trauma and urologic emergencies

10. Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis Shelly Lajiness

11. Basics of pre and postoperative management specific to urology patients

12. Neurogenic bladder and underactive bladder Shelly Lajiness

13. Stress incontinence Jason Gilleran

14. Overactive bladder Jen Mosher

15. Women's urology: Painful bladder syndrome and interstitial cystitis Guilia Lane

16. Prostate cancer and PSA screening Jason Hafron

17. Bladder and urothelial cancer Hillary Durstein and Sara Drummer

18. Kidney cancer Jason Hafron

19. Penile and testicular cancers

20. Uroradiology for the Nurse Practitioner

21. Procedures for the nurse practitioner in urology Heather Schultz and Sarah Stanley

22. Pain management and the urology patient Susanne Quallich

23. Law Primer for the Urology NP Patrick Quallich

24. Special topics for the Urology NP

a. transgender/LGBTQ care

b. urologic f/u of the gender reassignment patient

c. competencies overview/summary

d. basics of the male infertility evaluation

e. men's health overview

24. Appendix: Resources, coding resources, PSA screening, urologic emergencies