Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Urology Investigation Unit OPD- SRFTP 24 |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Siobhan Allmark, Alice Phillips – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Specialist Urology Nurse |
| Placement Address | Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, M6 8HD |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 0161 206 5380 |
| Your University Contact: | Nicola Heaps – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Off duty, welcome pack and learning objectives will be provided prior to start of placement.
Goals and objectives discussed at initial interview.
Orientated to the clinic environment, introduced to the staff on duty and to the assessor and/or supervisor assigned to support you if on duty.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Assessor & Supervisor will be allocated via PARE pre-placement
Both Assessor & Supervisor will be copied into learners initial email to ensure point of contact pre-placement
Leaners will be allocated to work with all members of the MDT as appropriate including healthcare support workers, junior doctors & consultants
SPOKE visits will provide exposure to other MDT members including Physios, Radiotherapy Clinicians, Surgical Care Practitioners etc.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Shift Notes:
Monday – Friday 8-6pm x3 with 1x 8-5:30pm session
Options to spread over 5x days- reasonable adjustments can be discussed at initial interview
No weekends/Bank Holidays
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
- Multidisciplinary Team Clinics both benign & oncological
- Nurse Led Cancer Treatment / Surveillance Clinics ; Bladder, Renal & Prostate
- Nurse Led Continence Assessment / Treatment / Follow Up Clinics
- Intravesical Botox Clinic
- Transurethral Laser Ablation Clinic
- Lithotripsy
- Vasectomy Clinic
- Prostate Biopsy Clinic
- Sacral neuromodulation Assessment / Trial Lines / Follow Up
- New Patient Assessment Clinics
- (Video) Urodynamic Clinics
- Theatre exposure
- Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Specialist Nurse Ward Rounds
- Multidisciplinary Team Meetings ; Benign & Cancer
- Department Clinical Governance Meetings
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Communication Skills – including breaking bad news
- Information gathering & provision tailored to patients specific needs
- Aseptic non-touch technique
- Urinalysis & interpretation
- Administration of medicines including injection technique
- Basic Clinical Observations
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
- Male & Female Catheterisation
- Intermittent self-catheterisation patient tuition
- Uroflowmetry & post void bladder scanning including interpretation
- Intravesical Therapies
- Taking urological histories
- Assisting with procedures ; prostate biopsies, cystoscopy & urodynamics
- Phlebotomy & Blood Glucose Monitoring (year & trust training dependent)
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Observational Learning with all members of the MDT
- Patient information literature
- SPOKE MDT placement exposure
- Trust intranet
- Nursing / Medical Journal physical & electronic access via university
- Access to trust academic library
- Learning from patient experience
- Urology Charities offer short online e-modules
- Greater Manchester Cancer Academy e-modules
- Departmental (learner & staff) academic evidence; directed study, published articles etc
- e-lfh.org.uk
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
- Multiple Clinical trials ; benign & oncological – options to join Research Team for SPOKE
- Clinical Audits
- Trust Quality Improvement Initiatives
Patient Satisfaction Feedback
Spoke Placements
- Theatre
- Palliative Care Team
- Acute Oncology Team
- Radiotherapy Suite
- Radiology Dept – Lithotripsy
- Stoma Care Team
- ERAS CNS
- Uro-Gynae Nursing Team
- Pelvic Floor Physio
- Community Continence Team
- Pre-op
- Brachytherapy Team at Christies
- Pathology Lab
- Research Tea
Additional Information
Leaners will be expected to be capable of independent learning & proactive in finding opportunities to meet their required proficiencies. We would encourage pre-reading of clinics & expect interactive discussions with the clinical practitioners. We would encourage learner reflection & aim to provide contemporaneous feedback throughout the placement.
Due to the high volumes of learners (all disciplines) we have requested only 1x nursing learner at a time.
Practice Education Facilitator ; Andi Surtess, andrea.surtees@nca.nhs.uk, 07395799524
Education Support Facilitators; Rebecca Pollitt, Rebecca.pollitt@nca.nhs.uk, 07977678150 & Emma Pattrick, emma.pattrick@nca.nhs.uk, 07800912063