You’re on the journey to a rewarding a fulling career, so thank you for checking us out. Everyone at BAUN would love to have you as part of our group.
If you already work in urology or have an interest in the speciality and care of urological patients, then we are here to offer you support, guidance and career opportunities.
Professional guidance
Being a member of BAUN gives you access to the professional advice of over 900 members, via a dedicated social media page and forum for those new to urology. Whether its advice regarding treatments, national guidance or discussing case studies and patient experiences, there is no better place to seek the most up to date insights into urology nursing, than from our members. Each BAUN member has most likely been in a situation like yourself and have a wealth of knowledge for you to draw from.
Networking, sharing information and participating in BAUN study days, are just some of the ways that you can help to progress your career.
Education
The BAUN Education Committee are committed to providing education for our members by developing and providing a broad range of study days and webinars to meet our member’s needs.
Each year we hold a BAUN Conference, with the most influential national and international speakers. Aswell as listening about inspiring topics, you can also take part by submitting a poster presentation, nominating yourself , team or other health care professional for an award as well doing a short verbal presentation about your projects.
Bruce Turner was a well known and loved BAUN member, a nurse consultant at the Homerton Hospital, London, and BAUN Education lead for many years. Our friend and colleague passed away in 2016. He was determined to continue his mission to educate and impassion urological nurses and left instructions that a legacy should continue in his name.
His legacy was used to establish The Bruce Turner Award: an annual prize which will provide a fully funded place (transport within the UK, accommodation and conference fees) to the BAUN annual conference for those early in their urology nursing career. You may be the lucky winner of this prestigious award!
Attendance to the annual conference is available to members at a reduced annual conference delegate fee and gives you access to national and international speakers and opportunities to liaise with colleagues in the business and social setting.
BAUN holds FREE STUDY DAYS and Webinars for its members which can help towards your professional revalidation.
Learning resources
Each member also receives access to the International Journal of Urological Nursing (IJUN) and also a newsletter publication, issued four times per year, aimed at keeping members updated on important urology information.
BAUN produce urological guidance which is also available to you freely in the members section of our website.
Career progression
Every BAUN member is valuable and unique. We all bring an array of experience together which cover the sub specialities of urology nursing. It is our backgrounds, cultures, work placements and opportunities which make urology nursing such an exciting speciality to be part of.
Each year we invite members to join BAUN Trustee Board as a trustee. We need to know the current trends in practice and what YOU are experiencing in the workplace as a new urology nurse, to enable us to support you and work with our members for your benefit. If you have the same passion as we do for urology nursing, education and advancing the profile of urology nurses, please consider being a BAUN trustee. Your voice matters to us and we want to hear it.
Students
Joining BAUN can help any student nurse, ACP, SCP or any other health care student to get the best out of their course. You will have access to our members only facebook page to ask any questions you wish, which may help you in your studies and learning. You will have access to all of the BAUN resources at NO COST until you qualify.
We want to hear from you!
As our future nursing / healthcare professional workforce we want to work with you to develop your educational needs and opportunities. If you want to see us in your colleges, campus’ and universities please get in touch with BAUN and one of our trustees can come and host a session to talk about all things urology and what an exiting career you can have in the world of urological nursing, with endless opportunities.
