Biography
Samantha has 20 years of urology experience, having worked in urology since she qualified as a staff nurse in 2005. She came into her current role as a Uro-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist in January 2013. Samantha’s specialist interest is prostate cancer. She set up the uro-oncology nurse led clinics service in Belfast.
Samantha became an independent prescriber in 2016.
Until recently, she was the only nurse in NI to look after men who were having radical prostatectomy and started prehabiliation clinics for men undergoing radical prostatectomy in 2014 by collaborating with specialist physiotherapy colleagues and setting up the robotic prostatectomy service in 2018, developing all of the patient information booklets and the setting up of follow up clinics.
Samantha works autonomously undertaking Red Flag prostate assessment clinics to include fast track access for those men with significantly raised PSA, transperineal prostate biopsies and nurse led result and reviews clinics. She also continues to support those patients having surgery for bladder and renal cancer.
Samantha is passionate about continuous development of the uro-oncology nurse led service in Belfast and strives for more cohesion throughout the region, through shared learning and peer support, to aid that she recently became chair of the Northern Ireland Urology Cancer Nurse Regional Forum.