Sunday Workshops

BAUN continue to provide excellent pre-conference workshops and on Sunday 3rd November 2024, we will once again be holding pre-conference workshops which will provide you with additional hands on experience and updates which will be essential for your CPD portfolio and for revalidation.

Flexible Cystoscopy Workshop

Sponsored by Olympus Medical

BAUN is pleased to be running the popular Flexible Cystoscopy Workshop again this year. The Workshop aims to give delegates the necessary prerequisite information and skills in preparation for training to perform flexible cystoscopies. Delegates will have the opportunity to practice safely on models, as well ask discuss any individual issues with our experienced workshop leads and while networking with the other delegates. The Workshop is consistently highly rated year after year by both aspiring and experienced nurse cystoscopists.

LATP Biopsy Workshop

After huge success last year, BAUN are delighted to be offering the LATP Workshop again this year.  This will help prepare Specialist Nurses to perform local anaesthetic prostate biopsies independently. We will provide the theory and practice behind both local anaesthetic trans rectal ultrasound and trans perineal biopsy procedures. There will also be time for hands on experience with equipment using the latest technology in the presence of trained professionals and industry partners. 

Essential Skills Workshop

New for 2024, the Essential Skills Workshop is aimed at junior urology nurses or those working in a setting looking after urology patients who require an overview of up to date guidelines and the opportunity to practice or update skills.

The areas that will be covered in the workshop will include:

Bladder washouts / maintenance / bladder instillations (not intravesical chemotherapy)
Care of nephrostomies
Change of SP catheter / Catheter change over guidewire
Difficult catheterisations
Digital rectal examination, IPSS, bladder diary
 Uroflowmetry, urinalysis, bladder scanning