PRACTICING TO THE TOP SCOPE OF UROLOGY PRACTICE AND ADVANCING TREATMENT AND PATIENT CARE THROUGH RESEARCH
People In Health Care Segment
Filmed in Melbourne | March 2025
With
Michael Cromer,
Urology Nurse Practitioner
Australian Prostate Cancer (APC) & Western Urology,
Melbourne
Michael is a urology nurse practitioner with a special interest in prostate cancer survivorship, and has worked in urology for the past ten years. Michael has completed the Prostate Nursing Care course at Latrobe University, Graduate Certificate of Health with a specialisation in Scheduled Medicines (USQ), and the Master of Nursing (Flinders) to become a Nurse Practitioner in 2024.
As a Urology Nurse Practitioner he divides his time between the Australian Prostate Centre and Western Urology.
He also has particular interest in sexual function, continence management and procedures under local anaesthetic. Currently Michael is involved in several research projects relating to prostate cancer testing and treatment, BPH and sexual function.
Michael is a member of the Australia & New Zealand Urological Nurses Society (ANZUNS), Victorian Urological Nurses Society (VUNS), and the Australian College of Nursing (ACN).
Source: supplied and edited
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