On this video, Adity Dutta, MSN, AGACNP-BC, discusses collaboration with the care crew at Georgia Urology. Dutta is a nurse practitioner with Georgia Urology.
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May you describe a state of affairs the place efficient communication and teamwork with urologists and/or different superior apply suppliers was important for a constructive affected person consequence?
That is an excellent query really. [With] superior prostate most cancers, after we are treating and managing these sufferers, sufferers are going by way of a number of completely different points, not solely their prostate-related points—it is most cancers, it is psychological. There may be a number of affected person schooling, educating, household educating; all these items are concerned. By the identical token, there are many labs and radiation work-ups and diagnostic research, PET scans, issues like that, that we have to take a look at. We do have, at Georgia Urology, an important superior prostate most cancers crew, led by Dr. Daniel Canter, and his nurse practitioner Caroline Department, and we work very intently with them. It’s extremely open communication; we speak to one another, e-mail one another about sufferers. And we do have a superb radiologist exterior of our apply. So we’re principally in fixed contact with one another in a means that we’re all on the identical web page. It didn’t occur with me, however I can speak about certainly one of my colleagues, really, and I might take that privilege to speak about it. She discovered the affected person was on Eligard, and had onset of seizure. My colleague was asking him questions, and he simply all of a sudden mentioned, “Hey, I simply had a bout of seizure.” And it simply put a pink alert on her and he or she referred to as instantly contacted Caroline Department and we discovered that Eligard has an antagonistic impact of seizure. That being mentioned, we stopped the medicine; we took care of that state of affairs.
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