Ep. 190 Optimizing BPH Care: Insights from Physician-APP Collaboration with Dr. Arpeet Shah and Nicole Hollander
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this week on the Backtable Podcast.
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. Boston Scientific is dedicated to transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. This includes solutions for benign prostate hyperplasia, or BPH, one of the most prevalent urologic conditions facing men today. Boston Scientific's Resume water vapor therapy is a minimally invasive BPH treatment that provides urologists with an efficient, durable solution that reduces prostate volume while preserving sexual function.
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He is part of associate urological specialist and is the director of APP program at the group. Nicole Hollander is an advanced practice registered nurse who specializes in urology. She earned her BSN and MSN from University of Miami. And she's a board certified family nurse practitioner and is also part of the urology associate urological specialist. Nicole and Arpit, welcome to Backtable.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us. No, no, it's going to be good. So Arpit, I was reading your website and I saw that you're the director of APP program. So let's go on and dive into that. I mean, what does it mean? What it is? How did you create it? What happened? What led to the creation of an APP program?
Sure. I think a lot of urology practices are in a very similar situation as we were pre-COVID and really entering into COVID, where there's just been a tremendous shortage of urology providers and an ever-growing patient population. So we were noticing that in our community, And in our surrounding areas that patients were having to wait weeks, months to see a provider. And we felt that we weren't serving our community correctly. And so the only way to kind of catch up and provide the needs of the patients in our community was to increase our providers. And with such a shortage of urologists, we knew we needed to utilize and harness the power of advanced practice providers to help us take care of our patients. We were also having other issues in terms of burnout.
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