Nurse Practitioner in Urology

Susanne A. Quallich has been working as a nurse practitioner since 1996, and has worked the Andrology Nurse Practitioner at University of Michigan since 2002. She is one of less than 200 Nurse Practitioners in the country with a specialty certification in Urology (CUNP). She has focused on raising awareness of men's sexual and reproductive health needs, and has been engaged in clinically-based research that quickly translates to improvements in their care. Her unique clinical focus in the areas of male sexual and reproductive health have made her a thought leader and expert among her peers in these areas, and she has published a variety of book chapters and journal articles on these topics. Dr. Quallich was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners due to her work in both NP education and promotion of the specialty NP role in Urology; she was awarded the Sigma Theta Tau Rho Chapter 2018 Award for Clinical Excellence.Michelle Lajiness (Shelly) has been Masters Prepared since 1992 and has been working as a NP in Urology since 2000.  She is currently working full time at the University of Toledo and pursing her DNP. She is recognized as a speaker at both the national and local levels. She has authored many articles and chapters and has an interest in UTI’s, asymptomatic bacteria, and helping to define the role of the NP in urology.

• Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Transitioning pediatric urology patients to adult urology practices.- 2. Basics of hypogonadism evaluation and management.- 3.  Evaluation and management of common scrotal conditions.- 4. Erectile dysfunction and men’s sexual health.- 5. Benign prostatic hyperplasia.- 6.  Hematuria.- 7. Prostatitis and chronic male pelvic pain.- 8. Stone disease.- 9. Urethral stricture and trauma.- 10. Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis.- 11. Basics of pre and postoperative management specific to urology patients.- 12. Neurogenic bladder and underactive bladder.- 13. Stress incontinence.- 14. Overactive bladder.- 15. Women's urology: Painful bladder syndrome and interstitial cystitis.- 16. Prostate cancer.- 17. Bladder and urothelial cancer.- 18. Kidney cancer.- 19. Penile and testicular cancers.- 20. Uroradiology for the Nurse Practitioner.- 21. Procedures for the nurse practitioner in urology.- 22. Pain management andthe urology patient.- 23. Special topics for the Urology NP.- 24. Appendix: Resources, coding resources, PSA screening, urologic emergencies.

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