Education

Annual event

Since 1998 the EAUN organises a very successful  3-day International Meeting for professionals in the urology nursing field.  In 2025 EAUN25 will take place in Madrid from 22-24 March 2025, with the famous Nurses’ dinner on Friday 21 March!

For more information please visit the section Events or visit the Congress website

Fellowships

The EAUN also offers nurses to travel to a hospital in another country to see and experience how the daily care is organised there. This very educational experience can contribute very much to your professional development and even that of your department. Please check out which hospitals can be contacted for such an experience and read the reports of colleagues that returned enthusiastically in the Fellowship section.

EULIS Stones Course for Nurses

5 October 2019

Milan, Italy

From 3-5 October 2019, the EULIS section of the EAU has held their annual Section Meeting in Milan, Italy. For the first time, an adjacent urolithiasis course for nurses was organised. Since the meeting was in Italy, the course was held in the Italian language (no translation was provided). The course was organised with support from (past) EAUN Board members Stefano Terzoni and Giulia Villa, on 5 October.

Programme Nurse Course Stones EULIS

The course is acknowledged by the Italian Federation of Nursing Boards

The course is supported by the European School of Urology Nursing

ESUN courses

In 2015 the European School of Urology Nursing (ESUN) was started. With the financial support of companies high quality education & training is developed. In May 2015 the first course was held in Amsterdam for 25 nurses with the support of Wellspect HealthCare. The topic of the course was “Urinary Tract Infection”, a hot topic nowadays with continuously increasing resistance. The following courses, with various topics took place in 2016, 2018, and 2022. Reports of these courses can be found in our News section.

Announcements of the courses can be found on the Events page and will be placed on our Facebook page.

For more details on the courses visit the ESUN courses section here.

The 6th and 7th ESUN Course on Bladder cancer and Prostate cancer will take place on 9-10 November 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.

ERUS-EAUN Robotic Urology Nursing Meeting

By collaborating with EAU and ERUS with a high standard in urological care we are able to provide an educational platform based on best practice. There is no harmonised training for nurses and RNFAs at this moment and this meeting aims to fill this gap with a high-quality nurses’ programme. The next nurses programme is planned for 11-13 September 2024 in Bordeaux, France. Please visit the ERUS Meeting website for further information.

Local courses

The ESUN also cooperates with national societies in the development of local courses, as a spin-off of courses previously organised by the ESUN for an international group of participants. Please contact the EAUN office, if your national society would be interested to organise such a course or (if there is no national urology nurses society) if you or your hospital would be able to organise this.

Workshops and lectures

The EAUN is also able to give workshops or lectures at meetings of national and international societies and is frequently invited to do so, e.g. in Italy, United Kingdom, China and Dubai. Please contact the EAUN office if you would like to discuss the possibilities.

E-courses

Furthermore the EAUN develops online learning. The Bone Health and Urological Cancer e-course is currently being updated. All you need to take this course is a (free) account for the EAUN website. Please go to the section e-courses for more information.

For EAUN members we also have the e-courses, such as  “Pigtail nephrostomy catheter care” and EAUNwebinar e-courses available. Fill out the application form on the e-courses registration page to request login details.

Online tools

To assist nurses with less experience in, for example, writing abstracts, the EAUN has developed some tools. The first tool was developed on “Writing an Abstract” and another one on “Making and Presenting a Poster”. We also list useful tools on other websites. The Tools for Writing & Presenting can be found here.

Accredited online education

The EAUN is working with the EU-ACME to offer accredited online education. If you would like to apply for accreditation of your national nursing event, please contact the EU-ACME to be registered as a CME provider (event organiser).

We also try to point the way to other organisations that offer such education. Please go to the section Other Resources to find more information.