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Flexible cystoscopy – performance criteria, training & assessment logbook

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Published: 2017
Publisher: BAUN
Overview: Second edition Supported by an unrestricted educational grant by Coloplast  

Intravesical instillation

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: B. Thoft Jensen, B. Turner, G. Villa, J. Hrbácek, N. Love-Retinger, S. Vahr, W. De Blok
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Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care

This publication focuses on intravesical instillations with mitomycin C and bacillus Calmette-Guérin. These guidelines are intended to complement, or provide support to, established clinical practice and should be used within the context of local policies and existing protocols and with recognition of the individual situation of the patient.

Catheterisation – indwelling catheters in adults

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: C. Vandewinkel, H. Cobussen-Boekhorst, I. Pearce, J. Farrell, M. Gea-Sanchez, S. Vahr, T. Schwennesen, V. Geng
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Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care

This publication focuses on indwelling catheters both suprapubic and urethral. The guidelines only describe the procedure and material in adults and not for children. Furthermore, these guidelines are intended to complement, or provide support to, established clinical practice and should be used within the context of local policies and existing protocols.

The male external catheter – good practice in health care

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: C. Seidler, E. Bonns, H. Cobussen-Boekhorst, P. Eelen, V. Geng
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Condom Catheter

Urinary Sheath

The aim of this booklet is to expand the knowledge regarding male external catheters and provide practical help in using them.

Incontinent urostomy – good practice in health care

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: B. Kiesbye, H. Cobussen-Boekhorst, S. Fillingham, S. Holroyd, S. Vahr, V. Geng
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Clear illustrations, case report summaries, extensive references and annotated procedures to help nurses to identify potential problem areas and efficiently carry out possible options for effective patient care.

Also included are topics such as pre-and post-operative assessment (nutrition, fluid balance, pain management, etc) which have a profound influence on both the outcome of the surgery and the urostomy patient’s quality of life and to highlight the psychological and social aspects unique to the experience of patients with a urostomy.

Chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome

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Publisher: Prostate Cancer UK
Overview: A new consensus guideline - website Main objectives
  • Provide guidance to healthcare professionals treating patients with CBP and CP/CPPS, both in primary and secondary care settings
  • Improve non-specialists’ awareness and recognition of CBP and CP/CPPS
  • Promote the efficient referral of care between non-specialists and specialists and the involvement of the MDT
  • Facilitate the improvement of patient awareness and recognition of CBP and CP/CPPS.

Guidelines for the administration of intravesical therapies

Publisher: BAUN
Authors: A. Gidlow, H. Baker, J. Borwell, K. Green, S. Henderson, T. Neale
Overview: Version 2

The intravesical therapy management of Bladder cancer is known to provide benefit to the time to progression of the disease and as health care professionals we have a duty to ensure that we are competent in the delivery of any care that we provide to the sufferers of the second most common urological cancer in the United Kingdom.

Flexible cystoscopy training and assessment guideline

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Published: 2017
Publisher: BAUN
Authors: A. German, A. Townsend, D. Jones, E. Hardingham, H. Baker, H. Kynaston, H. Worth, J. Parry, J. Taylor, K. Kilburn, N. Gregor, P. Bagnall
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Second edition

This reviewed guideline includes the competency requirements for performing laser ablation, intradetrusor, Botulinum toxin A injections and flexible cystoscopic- assisted urethral catheterisation over a guidewire using a flexible cystoscope.

Supported by an unrestricted educational grant by Coloplast

Transrectal ultrasound – guided biopsy of the prostate

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: C. Tillier, G. De Lauw, G. Villa, H. Lurvink, I.C. Klinge Iversen, J. Kinsella, K. Kaur, P. Cornford, T. Santos
Overview:

Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health care

Catheterisation – urethral intermittent in adults

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: C. Vandewinkel, H. Cobussen-Boekhorst, I. Pearce, J. Eikenboom, M. Lester, S. Holroyd, S. Vahr, V. Geng
Overview:

Evidence-based guidelines for best practice in urological health

Dilatation, urethral intermittent in adults

Continent urinary diversion

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Publisher: EAUN
Authors: B. Kiesbye, I. Pearce, P. Eelen, S. Fillingham, S. Holroyd, S. Vahr, V. Geng
Overview: Good practice in health care

Included are clear illustrations, case report summaries, extensive references and annotated procedures to help nurses to identify potential problem areas and efficiently carry out possible options for effective patient care.

What is revalidation?

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Publisher: NMC
Overview: Website - Revalidation is the process that all nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England need to follow to maintain their registration with the NMC.