Plenary Sessions
The first Plenary Session will celebrate the EAUN’s 25-year journey, highlighting those who have made contributions to the meetings development over the years. The second Plenary Session will focus on chronic bladder pain, including origins, aetiology, and diagnostics.
State-of-the-art sessions
State-of-the-art sessions will cover a diverse range of urological topics, showcasing the multifaceted approaches urological nurses take in their patient care by providing specialised nursing, psychological support, and evidence-based postoperative care. Topics will include benign urology, including abnormalities of the penis as well as urological causes and treatment of polyuria. There is a session providing valuable insights into assisting patients with lifestyle changes and how a nurse-led clinic has been established to manage recurrent UTIs in female patients. Another session will address ketamine uropathy, including its damaging impact on the bladder and treatment options. With treatment regimens continually evolving, EAUN25 will also feature innovative treatments for stress urinary incontinence, systemic treatments of metastatic cancer, and nephrectomy performed as day surgery.
Thematic sessions
Thematic sessions will tackle critical topics, such as the current difficulties in the European healthcare systems, with a widespread nurses’ shortage and the uncertain economic landscape. For prostate cancer there is a session on salvage therapy options in localised recurrences, including the implications and the side effects affecting the patient’s quality of life. There is a special session about the role of urodynamics in neurogenic bladder management, which will be delivered by the International Neuro-Urology Society (INUS).
Patients’ experience and sexual dysfunctions in bladder cancer long-term treatments, such as intravesical instillation, and chemo- or immunotherapy systemic treatments, will be presented and reviewed also. There will be a session on increasing awareness of individualised predictive tools, specifically designed to predict cancer treatments’ outcomes in clinical practice, supporting healthcare providers and patients in making informed decisions, as well as a lecture on integrative oncology to provide delegates with useful information on herbal supplements and side effects.
Special Interest Groups
The EAUN Special Interest Groups have prepared several high-quality sessions to examine the nurses’ evolving responsibilities and contributions: nurse-led endourological procedures; sexual abuse and psychosexual concerns; benefits of technology (surgical techniques, mobile apps) for symptom management and treatment optimisation in salvage therapy for bladder cancer recurrence; challenges in continence care; prehabilitation aimed to optimise pre-treatment patient’s physical and mental health in prostate cancer care. Again included in the scientific programme, is a session on atypical and difficult cases in daily nursing practice, which will give delegates a unique opportunity to learn from other colleagues’ experience and solutions of challenging cases.
Nursing research and practice development
Poster sessions will showcase research and innovations in urological nursing. To encourage future nursing research, there is also a new session this year dedicated to sharing the key components of how to create high-quality abstracts and presenting research results.
There are two European School of Urology (ESU) courses that will provide updates on surgical treatment options for benign prostatic hyperplasia and acute urological presentations. Also, mark your agenda for the annual Nurses’ Dinner on Friday, 21 March 2025.
Registration is open, with discounted fee until 21 January 2025.
See you in Madrid next March!
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Mr. Mattia Boarin (IT), and Mrs. Lisbeth Roesen Leinum (DK)
EAUN Scientific Congress Office chairs