Francesca is a Urology Nurse Practitioner (NP) who has extensive nursing experience in Urology, Gynaecology, General Surgery and Colorectal and has been a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) affiliated Prostate Cancer Specialist Nurse for over 10 years. Francesca has post graduate qualifications in prostate care nursing, sexual health, is a Clinical Continence Advisor and completed a Urology and Men’s Health Fellowship at the Australian Prostate Centre in Melbourne.
Francesca completed her Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) and currently cares for general urology patients with a focus in men’s health. She provides management of erectile dysfunction, sexual health issues, continence issues and bladder dysfunction and facilitates the long term follow up of patients with urological cancers. Francesca also runs a national telehealth intimacy counseling service for men on hormone therapy. She is passionate about education and empowering patients.
Francesca is an adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She is a longstanding advisory board member for Exercise Medicine Research Institute and guest lecturer in the Curtin University Master of Physiotherapy Pelvic Health course. Francesca is a longstanding committee member for the Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference. Francesca is also a past president for the Society of Urological Nurses in WA (SUNWA) and past state representative for the Australian and New Zealand Urological Nursing Society (ANZUNS). Francesca is a current member of ISSM, ACNP, SAS, SUNWA, ANZUNS and EAU.