Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Urology Clinical Nurse Specialists |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Ella O’Connell (Uro-oncology clinical nurse specialist), Sophia Ali PEL – Send Email |
| Placement Address | The Royal Oldham Hospital – Urology |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0161 627 8792 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Flexible Cystoscopy
- Urodynamic studies
- Prostate Biopsy
- Intravesical Chemotherapy including mitomycin and BCG treatment
- 2 weeks wait cancer prostate clinic/ haematuria clinic
- Breaking Bad News cancer diagnostic clinic
- Theatres
- Prostate Assessment Clinic
- Nurse Led Clinics for complicated catheterisation / teaching of Intermittent Catheterisation.
- General outpatient clinics
- CNS led MDT meetings
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
We are putting together a spreadsheet of who is a supervisor and assessor to ensure that the learner has two supervisors and one assessor.
Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Urology Clinical Nurse Specialists |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Ella O’Connell (Uro-oncology clinical nurse specialist) – Send Email |
| Placement Address | The Royal Oldham Hospital – Urology OPD |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0161 627 8792 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Flexible Cystoscopy
- Urodynamic studies
- Prostate Biopsy
- Intravesical Chemotherapy including mitomycin and BCG treatment
- 2 weeks wait cancer prostate clinic/ haematuria clinic
- Breaking Bad News cancer diagnostic clinic
- Theatres
- Prostate Assessment Clinic
- Nurse Led Clinics for complicated catheterisation / teaching of Intermittent Catheterisation.
- General outpatient clinics
- CNS led MDT meetings
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
We are putting together a spreadsheet of who is a supervisor and assessor to ensure that the learner has two supervisors and one assessor.
Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Urology Clinical Nurse Specialists |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Ella O’Connell (Uro-oncology clinical nurse specialist) – Send Email |
| Placement Address | The Royal Oldham Hospital – Urology OPD |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0161 627 8792 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Flexible Cystoscopy
- Urodynamic studies
- Prostate Biopsy
- Intravesical Chemotherapy including mitomycin and BCG treatment
- 2 weeks wait cancer prostate clinic/ haematuria clinic
- Breaking Bad News cancer diagnostic clinic
- Theatres
- Prostate Assessment Clinic
- Nurse Led Clinics for complicated catheterisation / teaching of Intermittent Catheterisation.
- General outpatient clinics
- CNS led MDT meetings
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
We are putting together a spreadsheet of who is a supervisor and assessor to ensure that the learner has two supervisors and one assessor.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Monday – Friday 08:30 – 16:30
Patient Care Situations
In nurse-led clinics
Telephone clinics
Face to face clinics with consultants
What nursing model is used for planning care?
The nursing process – assess, diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate care
Core Clinical Skills:
Injections
Effective communications
Presenting case studies at MDT
Participating in NLC
Ability to read and interpret scan results and bloods
Learning Resources
Clinical Guidelines
2700_a_to_z_of_medical_words_ifm.pdf (prostatecanceruk.org)
National Institute Clinical Excellence (NICE) (www.nice.org.uk )
- Lower Male Urinary Tract
- Continence
- Prostate cancer
- Bladder Cancer
European Urological Association (EUA) Urological Guidelines (www.europeanurology.com )
British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Guidelines (www.baus.org.uk)
Manchester Cancer Urology Guidelines
(www.manchestercancer.org.uk )
Research Development Activities
Trust Policies to be familiar with in preparation for your placement
Lone working policy
Uniform Policy
Sickness Absence Policy
Waste disposal policy
Hand Hygiene
Catheterisation
Infection Control
All available via the trust Intranet,
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