Your Urology Questions - Answered!

How much did you learn about urology in school? If your answer was “not a whole lot,” welcome. Most Nurse Practitioner programs do not cover urology concerns in great depth, which can contribute to a real lack of clarity once you start practicing. You may double or triple your knowledge of common urology concerns today.

This week, we talk with Dr. Joseph Acquaye, who answers all of the questions that you submitted about urology. In this interview, we talk about:

✅ When to refer your patient to urology, and what happens when you do
✅ Urinary incontinence
✅ Testosterone replacement
✅ PSA screening – how to interpret, and when to stop screening
✅ Imaging – should you order it before sending your patient to urology?

Dr. Joseph Acquaye says that his favorite part of working in urology is the wide variety of topics that he encounters on a daily basis. Whether performing a procedure, working with a couple to understand and address the impact of erectile dysfunction on them, or coming up with an approach to treat the tricky interstitial cystitis, there is always something different waiting in the urology office.

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Video Breakdown:
00:00 - Introduction
02:13 - Referrals and Consults
05:36 - Microhematuria
11:12 - PSA screening
16:30 - Kidney Stones
18:43 - Ordering CT urogram
19:30 - CIS Male Urology Issues (ED, BPH, incontinence)
23:59 - Assessing for Prostate Cancer
25:25 - Testosterone and Erectile Dysfunction
29:00 - CIS Female Incontinence
34:50 - Recurrent UTI
42:23 - Interstitial Cystitis
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Please note: This episode is intended only for medical providers and students learning to be medical providers.

While anyone is welcome to view and listen, for legal and safety reasons, we are unable to diagnose, treat, or answer medical questions for individuals through this channel. We always refer individuals back to their primary care providers for medical care.

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[nayrgee]

As a new Uro nurse, this is Great! Thanks

[vanessaestoque]

This has been the BEST interview! It is so helpful. Answered so many questions for me. I am a new nurse practitioner with about 10 months experience in California and everything that was discussed are the things I encounter in my office.

[anapardo]

This is gold! Thank you so much!!! You are unique ❤

[xuxie]

Love this interview! Very helpful! Thank you!

[stephaniemojica]

Extremely helpful! Thank you for sharing all this knowledge!

[d.m.]

Excellent interview, thank you so much!

[shelbybassett]

Anyway to get interviews like this in note form? I took SO many notes and find I learn best with reading more than listening

[carolinaordonez]

Love this video, very straight forward. this doc is down to earth and helpful. I have notes 😅 ready for work tomorrow!!!

[Nursekelly]

Thanks for this. Can you do ENT soon?

[wes]

I guess some things that are patient based are not important to answer to a patient questionI am going to ask you a question and hope you will both answer me and be honest. When you do an irrigation do you keep your patient covered so that they are not exposed or did you just go a head and totally expose them. I had a Nurse practitioner do it and totally exposed me and had a registered nurse do the same thing and not expose me at all. One did a great job of treating me with care and understanding without exposing me, the other one was completely callus and when I left, I felt ashamed and dirty.
It is important to me as I have prostate cancer and have been looking for someone that would treat me as a moral human being rather than a Chippendale dancer. I would like to hope to find someone that cares and enough caring to treat a patient as a person with keeping with the days gone by and not exposing a patient more than necessary.