Competency information

Details

Take appropriate action to respond to the specific needs of as defined by department protocol for each investigation.

Considerations

  • Recognition of the contraindications to testing prior to the test, as defined by department protocol.
  • The range of needs of people with disabilities within a typical care pathway for a patient with diseases affecting the lower urinary tract system.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Plan and perform, under appropriate practitioner direction, video urodynamics tests to identify vesico-ureteric reflux, trabeculation, diverticulae and different types of incontinence.
# 2 Outcome Plan and perform ambulatory urodynamic monitoring to investigate patients referred for a range of situations, including indeterminate cystometry or unreproduced symptoms.
# 3 Outcome Plan and perform urethral pressure profile testing, maintaining awareness of the test’s limitations.