Description
Job Summary:
To coordinate and monitor care of patients in the urology clinic.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Sets-up, performs, and/or assists with minor surgical and invasive procedures as appropriate, including cystoscopies, TRUS, vasectomies, MRI fusion biopsies, bladder Botox injections and biopsies.
- Collaborate closely with the physician, clinical assistants, family members and patient to ensure medications, lifestyle changes, and therapy services are suitable.
- Be familiar with signs and symptoms of infection and be comfortable dressing wounds and assessing long-term catheters.
- Report any complications or issues to the physician.
- Perform extensive patient and family education regarding a variety of bladder, kidney, and other urinary tract disorders.
- Performs urodynamics, uroflows, and systometrograms.
- Initiates and monitors IV therapy to therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
- Provides ongoing assurance of functional emergency equipment and adequate emergency drug supplies.
- Maintains competencies in scope and instrument reprocessing and ensures daily functioning/integrity of scopes.
- Coordinates, implements, and evaluates patient teaching plans for areas or urologic disease management and other areas as designated.
- Administer intravesical chmotherapy for prostate cancer and monitor patient post Chemotherapy instillation.
- Administer BCG, dimethyl sulfoxide, and other medications via indwelling bladder catheter. Administers all oral and injecting medications in the assigned clinical area.
- Perform Stent removal, Lupron administration, Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS), and Suprapubic Catheter Change/Insertion.
- Coordinate all care for prostate cancer clinic with multidisciplinary team
- Performs other related duties as directed.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
- Minimum two (2) years of urology experience in an inpatient or ambulatory setting required.
- N/A
- This job requires credentials from multiple states. Credentials from the primary work state are required before hire. Additional Credentials from the secondary work state(s) are required post hire.
- Registered Nurse License (Maryland) within 6 months of hire AND Registered Nurse License (Virginia) within 6 months of hire
- Compact License: Registered Nurse within 6 months of hire
- Registered Nurse License (District of Columbia) within 6 months of hire
- Basic Life Support
- Proficiency in the use of applicable computer software required.
- Must possess a solid knowledge of the male and female urinary tract and reproductive systems, pathphysiology, and treatments.
- Excellent bedside manners and sensitive.
- Strong computer and documentation skills.
- Experience in assisting with scope and minor surgical procedures required.
- Certified Urologic Registered Nurse preferred.
- BSN preferred.
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