Our nursing clinical placements can support prostate cancer or urology nurses with an individualised education program to meet their learning goals. Our Urology Nurse Practitioners and Urology Nurse Specialists are experts in prostate cancer and urology nursing.
A nursing education package at the APC is tailored to the individual’s needs, and may include any of the following:
Hormone Therapy Clinic
Learn about side effects of ADT, how to administer an ADT injection, and best practice multidisciplinary prostate cancer survivorship care for patients on hormone therapy.
Sexual Function Clinic
Best practice penile rehabilitation pre and post radical prostatectomy, training in intracavernosal injection (ICI) and vacuum erection devices (VED), intimacy counselling for couples, including same sex couples.
Prostate Cancer Survivorship
Experience the nursing role in prostate cancer survivorship throughout the patient journey, from point of diagnosis through to palliative care. Our nurses coordinate the survivorship care for patients with prostate cancer, and facilitate referrals to survivorship services.
Observation and interaction with our specialist medical and allied health team
Our medical specialists: urologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, endocrinologists, prostate cancer GP.
Our allied health team: pelvic floor physiotherapists, exercise physiologists and clinical psychologists.
Advanced Prostate Cancer MDT
Attendance at our weekly Advanced Prostate Cancer MDT. Learn from hearing case presentations and discussions of management options for patients with advanced prostate cancer with our urologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, urology and prostate cancer nurses, radiologists, pathologists, nuclear medicine physicians, pelvic floor physiotherapists and exercise physiologists.
Theatre Observations
Theatre observations are available to watch a robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with one of our urological surgeons.
Prostatectomy Prehabilitation Seminar
Attend our prehab seminar for patients undergoing RARP, including contributions from nursing, pelvic floor physiotherapy, exercise physiology and psychology.
Urology Nursing Skills
Development of urology nursing skills such a trial of void, catheter care, catheter removal, teaching clean intermittent self catheterisation, continence care, prostate cancer care.
Urology Nursing Procedures
Learn skills in urology nursing procedures, including flexible cystoscopy, urodynamic studies, Botox instillation and other bladder instillations, voiding flow rates & post void residual assessment, transperineal prostate biopsy, insertion of gold fiducial markers, percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS).
ERAS Program for Radical Cystectomy
Learn from our urology nurse practitioner and exercise physiologist about best practice ERAS protocols for patients undergoing radical cystectomy.
International Medical Robotics Academy (IMRA)
Observation at our robotic surgery training academy, where urologists and other specialties use robotic simulators and artificial anatomical models to perfect skills in robotic surgery. Have a play on our robotic simulators, learn anatomy via our huge anatomy digital table, and view surgeries via 3D simulation goggles.
Melbourne Theranostic Innovation Centre (MTIC)
Observation at our partner institution MTIC, to learn about theranostic imaging and therapies. Watch a PSMA PET scan and learn from nuclear medicine technologists and theranostic nurse consultants about all things theranostics.
Other Experiences
These can be tailored to the learning needs of the nurse, and may include: observation of various radiation treatment options for prostate cancer, mentoring by prostate cancer nurses in the hospital and private clinic settings, continence clinic observation, operating room access to observe a variety of urological surgical procedures with consultants including robotic surgery, diagnostic imaging including MRI prostate and PSMA PET.
2026/27 Prostate Cancer Nurse Fellowship Education Program
The Australian Prostate Centre is no longer accepting applications for our 2026/27 Prostate Cancer Nurse Fellowship Program, kindly supported by the Freemasons Foundation of Victoria.
This program will give 10 nurses the opportunity to attend a five-day clinical placement at APC designed to equip nurses with advanced, hands-on experience across the full continuum of prostate cancer care - providing nurses with the valuable opportunity to observe and participate in every stage of the patient journey, from diagnosis and treatment planning through to surgery, rehabilitation and long-term survivorship care.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be in Victoria to apply, and priority will be given to nurses from regional and rural areas for this fellowship experience.
Placements must occur between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027 as a one-week (5 day) block. Successful candidates will be advised, and mutually agreeable placement dates can be confirmed.
All participating fellows will be required to completed pre and post clinical placement surveys and a 300-500 word fellowship report.
