The use of advance practice nurse practitioners, part-time contract adult and pediatric urologists, and pediatric physician specialists can effectively increase the number of patients treated without adding full-time pediatric urology staff. The assignment of patient and disease populations to each team member has been an ongoing process of critically defining and updating responsibilities in an attempt to expand care, increase productivity and maximize the quality of delivery of these services.
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