Urology Nursing: Assessment, Procedures and Self-Management

Course Purpose

This course develops nursing assessment, escalation, procedural verification, reassessment, and self-management support across eight connected areas: focused assessment and dignified documentation; urinary infection; retention; catheter care; stones; incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction; hematuria and cancer recognition; and long-term BPH, kidney protection, and survivorship coordination.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 4 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Urology Nursing: Assessment, Procedures and Self-Management.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Organize a focused urinary history around onset, baseline function, storage symptoms, voiding difficulty, pain, leakage, and visible bleeding.
2. Separate patient-reported symptoms from measured output, bladder assessment, urine appearance, and laboratory findings.
3. Apply course expectations for privacy, permission, modesty, language access, and respectful discussion of urinary and sexual concerns.
4. Recognize lower urinary infection symptoms and identify findings that raise concern for pyelonephritis.
5. Communicate infection complexity through specific anatomical, renal, immune, catheter, and treatment-history factors rather than labels alone.
6. Explain why asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic selection require clinical context, culture review, and prescriber judgment.
7. Distinguish acute, chronic, and postoperative retention, including presentations with little pain or overflow leakage.
8. Verify the authorized catheter indication, assessment pathway, maintenance policy, specimen procedure, and review or removal plan.
9. Recognize stone-associated pain and escalate possible infected obstruction, persistent uncontrolled pain, or vomiting for clinical reassessment.
10. Differentiate preventive stone hydration teaching from individualized acute fluid management and renal care.
11. Differentiate stress, urge, mixed, overflow, and functional incontinence using circumstances of leakage and emptying history.
12. Reinforce assessed behavioral and pelvic floor programs without inventing exercise doses or assuming all dysfunction reflects weakness.
13. Explain microscopic confirmation of hematuria and communicate accompanying findings suggesting renal or urologic disease.
14. Recognize bladder and prostate cancer concerns while separating symptom evaluation from clinician-led screening discussions.
15. Track BPH symptom burden and coordinate medication, renal, and fluid-plan review without independently changing treatment.
16. Coordinate survivorship, sexual-health support, practical access, and follow-up ownership while acknowledging limits of the retrieved procedural evidence.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Urology Nursing: Assessment, Procedures and Self-Management.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   The Urology Nurse’s Role, Focused Assessment, and Dignified Documentation

4. 4

   Urinary Tract Infection Across the Spectrum

5. 5

   Acute, Chronic, and Postoperative Urinary Retention

6. 6

   Catheter Care and Catheter-Associated Infection Prevention

7. 7

   Urinary Stone Disease: Acute Priorities and Prevention Teaching

8. 8

   Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Management

9. 9

   Hematuria, Urologic Cancer Recognition, and Screening Uncertainty

10. 10

    Long-Term Urologic Self-Management, Kidney Protection, and Survivorship Coordination

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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