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BAUN Conference Monday 3rd — 5th November 2008

Provisional programme

Highlights of the conference will be:

  • Opening speaker: Allison Leary Senior Lecturer, UCLH, Making Nursing Visible.
  • Keynote lecture: Jeff Arburgh Advanced nurse practitioner SUNA, 'Tales From The Bedside': An American Perspective on Urology Nursing
  • Debate: 'This house believes that competence based nursing points to the death of nursing as a profession'
  • Eileen O'Hagan annual lecture: Rosemary Kennedy, Chief Nursing Officer, National Assembly of Wales. 'The future of Nursing'.

Other provisional programme topics include:

BAUN Section of Oncology

  • Hormone refractory prostate cancer
  • Social/financial support
  • Supporting patients with treatment choices — informed decision making project
  • Robotic prostatectomy
  • Open.v. laparascopic radical prostatectomy
  • Non surgical treatments for early stage prostate cancer

BAUN Section of Andrology

  • Premature and retarded ejaculation
  • Why don't PDE5 inhibitors work?
  • Lets Play with willies! — A hands on workshop on androgen therapies — several therapies including vacuum devices and injection therapy plus others.

BAUN School of urology / Ward programme / Community

  • Addressing catheter related problems
  • Female continence
  • Different approaches to prostate surgery... why HoLEP rather than TURP or green light LASER?
  • Clinical Governance, management of post TURP (BT) bleeding.
  • LUTS patient pathway is there any role for the office urologist?
  • Renal stones, management approaches
  • Urology assessment and diagnosis 'closer to the patients home': A Consultant Urologist, Clinical Nurse Specialist and GPwSI perspective
  • Integrated Cancer Care programme (ICCP) in the community

Other sessions include:

  • Sexual health — an overview
  • Taking an effective sexual health history.
  • How to do research
  • Free papers and poster