Working Life: Anne Murphy, advanced nurse practitioner

We interview patients to determine their symptoms. The vast majority leave with a simple explanation.

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I work as an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP), colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), at Cork University Hospital (CUH). Some mornings start with a multidisciplinary team meeting where patients’ options are discussed. For some, this will mean further investigation, for others, surgery or other treatments, which are organised quickly — not like in the past where a patient was referred from one specialist to the next before a decision was made.