TITLE:
Nursing Practice in Urology in Ghana: Current Realities and the Need for Structured Specialty Training
AUTHORS:
Josephine Mpomaa Kyei, Erica Quist, George Twum Barima, Ebelechukwu Ijeoma Onwuagbaizu, William Menkah, Charles Ampong Adjei, Mathew Yamoah Kyei
KEYWORDS:
Urology, Specialty Nurse, Training, Ghana, West Africa
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Urology,
Vol.16 No.4,
April
1,
2026
ABSTRACT: Nurses play a central role in optimizing patient outcomes with specialty training offering the most benefit. As urology services expand, skill gaps across outpatient, inpatient, day-care, and operative settings limit efficiency, safety, and the patient experience. This write up is based on observations of urology practice in five centers in Ghana and two centers in Nigeria. In Ghana, and some countries in the West Africa Sub-region, formalized specialty training for nurses practicing in urology centers was absent. There is the need to establish curriculum-based specialty nurse training programs in urology that takes into consideration the peculiarities of urology practice in Ghana and the West African subregion to advance patient care.