title: Restoring and maintaining urinary function.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe surgical urinary diversion methods, nursing management, and survivorship issues in urologic cancer survivors.
  
  
  METHODS
  PubMed, Scopus, Cochran Reviews, Core 25 online texts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Options exist for patients that require urinary diversion, although long-term symptoms may persist.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses must be knowledgeable about obstructive uropathy and understand the surgical options for urinary diversion following a cystectomy; pre- and post-operative needs exist for the cancer patient, family, and caregiver. Following completion of active treatment, a survivorship care plan summarizes active treatment and complications, plans long-term health outcomes and surveillance, and communicates with the primary care provider.
authors: Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, 1142 Holton Road, Grove City, OH 43123, USA. joanne.lester@osumc.edu
authors: Joanne
authors: J
authors: Lester
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D020127:Recovery of Function; D014547:Urinary Diversion / Q000451:nursing*; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery*