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First MMISU meeting: Sharing MIS nursing skills

The first annual meeting of Mediterranean Minimally Invasive Surgery in Urology (MMISU 2019) was held in the beautiful city of Alexandria in Egypt from 18 to 20 April 2019. The meeting venue was in the convention centre of the iconic Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a prestigious...

Invitation to take part in EVOLVE

Invitation to take part in EVOLVE: A study to develop a model of meaningful patient engagement within guideline development You are invited to take part in an international Delphi study on patient involvement in clinical practice guideline development and...

An ESUN course in your own language: It is possible!

Dutch national society successful in organising ESUN courses in Dutch The EAUN organises ESUN (European School of Urology Nurses) courses since 2015; the first course was about UTI and was held in Amsterdam. In the Netherlands, the English language is a barrier...

10th Anniversary Hong Kong College of Urological Nursing

EAUN representative visits urological care units in Hong Kong hospitals The Hong Kong College of Urological Nursing has organised its 10th annual scientific meeting in Hong Kong on 6 and 7 July 2019. The programme of this scientific meeting was very varied...

Prostate SIG group encompasses role diversity

The essential multidisciplinary approach to prostate cancer acknowledged through its SIG members have been a member of the EAUN since 2009 and recently joined the EAUN Prostate Cancer Special Interest Group (SIG). My professional development has led me to the field of...

Prostate Cancer Specialist Nursing Role in Brisbane

How to provide cancer care in remote areas – Australia deals with the challenge Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed male cancer in Australia. Approximately 20,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world...

10th anniversary post-EAUN meeting in Aarhus, Denmark

Denmark hosts international speakers on a wide variety of topics once again The first post-EAUN meeting was initiated by Bente Thoft Jensen, former chair of the EAUN in 2010. The volcanic eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland during the 11th EAUN meeting in...

The inception of EAUN & ANZUNS collaboration

In March 2015, I attended the EAUN conference in Madrid. It was my first international urology conference and I was very impressed with the high standard of presentations and workshops delivered by the nurses in Europe. I was delighted to be...

EAUN19 Poster: Self-care in ostomy patients and their caregivers

At the 20th International EAUN Meeting in Barcelona, we presented a poster describing a study conducted in our hospital in Milan, aimed at investigating the self-care levels in ostomy patients and caregivers using two new indexes, validated in Italian. Introduction Patients with an...