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Question for NPs

Are nurse practitioners in urology qualified to do check up procedures for patients who had bladder cancer and/or kidney stone operations (but are clear of that since)?  Physicians do cystocomies, but am curious if female NPs also do with men?  They don't answer their phones and I'd like your understanding on this.

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    Just a question to clarify: are you asking if NPs do urological invasive procedures like cystoscopies?

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    Yes, that is the question. Are they trained and do cystotomy? Or does it depend on the NP

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    Cystotomy is a surgical procedure to drain urine directly from the bladder to an outside bag. Cystoscopy is the introduction of a cystoscope into the urethral opening to view the bladder. So...apologize but I'm still not sure what exactly you are asking?  An NP would NOT do a cystotomy but MIGHT do a cystoscopy

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    I misspelled. And meant cystoscopy...in my large metroarea  few NPs and females are in urology, .

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    I work in nephrology, not urology. However, I found this at the Society of Urological Nurses: 

    Position Statement on Nurse Practitioners and Office Cystoscopy | Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates

     

    Hope this helps....

     

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    added link:  Position Statement on Nurse Practitioners and Office Cystoscopy | Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates

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    SUNA supports nurse practitioners (NPs) performing office-based cystoscopy procedures (with training as outlined by Quallich et al. [2019]) as a vital way to address the need for access to quality urologic care. SUNA also acknowledges that in the past, NPs have been safely trained on-the-job to perform cystoscopy, but feels that moving forward, training can proceed with a more uniform, standardized approach....

     

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