BackTable Urology
Ep. 190 Optimizing BPH Care: Insights from Physician-APP Collaboration with Dr. Arpeet Shah and Nicole Hollander
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Learn how Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) can boost workflow efficiency and improve patient experience in your urology practice. In this episode of the BackTable Urology podcast, host Dr. Jose Silva speaks with Dr. Arpeet Shah and advanced practice nurse (APN) Nicole Hollander, about the role of APPs in benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) patient care. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Boston Scientific Rezum Water Vapor Therapy https://www.bostonscientific.com/rezum --- SYNPOSIS Hollander and Shah discuss the importance of effective APP training and onboarding. Dr. Shah shares his wisdom on structuring an APP program to ensure that new practitioners are educated, compliant, and satisfied; all while helping to address the current urologist shortage. The discussion also covers BPH workflows, effective follow-up, and staying up to date on evolving medical knowledge in the context of innovations such as GreenLight Laser and UroCuff. --- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 06:58 - Nicole’s APP Journey 07:42 - Training APPs 12:22 - BPH Workflow 21:04 - Deciding on Procedures for BPH 26:40 - Rezum 33:40 - Ensuring APP Clinical Excellence and Compliance 36:34 - APP Career Development and Retention 40:31 - Looking Ahead
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Taking things slowly and making sure that things are done right from the beginning is a very important thing, developing good habits. So that's exactly how we do it. And every practice can be unique, but we felt that figuring out how to compliantly document things while you're in parallel, also learning the topics of urology was really important and they kind of went hand in hand.
And that's how we set up our onboarding is when a new APP comes, they'll shadow first and they'll start documenting, kind of act as a scribe within the practice and then start seeing patients like when you were a resident, when you would go see the patient and go outside, talk to your attending, kind of figure out a plan together and then both go back in and then slowly developing an independent schedule.
But at the end of the day, we want all of our advanced practice providers on an independent schedule. And I think Making sure that they have that confidence and that autonomy really brings a lot in terms of satisfaction from their job.
Hello and welcome back to Backtable Urology Podcast, your source for all things urology. You can find all previous episodes of our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Backtable.com. Now a quick word from our sponsors. Today's Backtable podcast is sponsored by Boston Scientific's Urology Division.
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