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- Title
Nurse Practitioner-Led Prostate Biopsy in the United Kingdom.
- Authors
Turner, Bruce; Aslet, Philippa
- Abstract
As prostate cancer detection rates increase, multi-professional health care teams with nurse practitioners are adopting some roles that have predominantly been in the medical domain. This article reports the development of nurse practitioners undertaking prostate biopsies in the United Kingdom and presents an audit demonstrating the safety of nurse practitioners conducting this procedure.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; EDUCATION of nurse practitioners; PROSTATE tumors; AUDITING; LEGAL liability; NEEDLE biopsy; NURSE practitioners; NURSING specialties; ULTRASONIC imaging; UROLOGICAL nursing; ACCREDITATION; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Urologic Nursing, 2011, Vol 31, Issue 6, p351
- ISSN
1053-816X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7257/1053-816X.2011.31.6.351