Nurse-led flexible cystoscopy in Australia: initial experience and early results.

N Sapre; P Bugeja; E Hayes; NM Corcoran; A Costello; PD Anderson

Journal article

Nurse-led flexible cystoscopy in Australia: initial experience and early results.

N Sapre, P Bugeja, E Hayes, NM Corcoran, A Costello, PD Anderson

BJU International | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2012.11472.x

Abstract

• To present our initial experience implementing a nurse-led flexible cystoscopy (NLFC) service in a Victorian tertiary hospital and our initial results from that service, as NLFC has developed over the past decade with reports suggesting that adequately trained nurses can undertake FC competently. • We describe the implementation of a NLFC service including approval, funding, nurses' training, and protocols. • Outcomes of all patients having a NLFC or subsequent interventions were recorded prospectively and analysed retrospectively. • To gauge patients' response to NLFC, an anonymous feedback questionnaire was administered to 60 consecutive participating patients in the recovery unit. • The..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Niall Corcoran Author

Anthony Costello Author

Paul Anderson Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

N.S. is a urology trainee and a recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award and the Cybec Cancer Research Postgraduate Scholarship. P. B. and E. H. perform the nurse-led cystoscopies and are responsible for on-going data collection. P. A. is the consultant urologist who supervises the service.