Editors:
- Assists nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other healthcare providers in maintaining excellent care of urologic patients
- Offers practice tips and tricks
- Offers a blend of patient-centered management and medical/surgical management from the unique perspective of the nurse practitioner
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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-operativeurologic 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Urology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Susanne A. Quallich
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Department of Urology, University of Toledo Physicians Group, University of Toledo, Toledo, USA
Michelle J. Lajiness
About the editors
Michelle Lajiness (Shelly) has been Masters Prepared since 1992 and has been working as a NP in Urology since 2000. She is currently working full time at the University of Toledo and pursing her DNP. She is recognized as a speaker at both the national and local levels. She has authored many articles and chapters and has an interest in UTI’s, asymptomatic bacteria, and helping to define the role of the NP in urology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nurse Practitioner in Urology
Book Subtitle: A Manual for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Allied Healthcare Providers
Editors: Susanne A. Quallich, Michelle J. Lajiness
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45267-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45266-7Published: 01 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45267-4Published: 31 July 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 558
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Management, Urology, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Nursing Research