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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...

Hello colleagues, I hope you enjoyed the Annual EAUN Congress as much as we did. The sessions were well attended, informative and gave much food for thought. Apart from the sessions, the posters were of a high standard and gave the adjudicators...

Multi-professional approaches to urological care are fundamental in ensuring positive outcomes in urological care, in which nurses are central and play a pivotal part. Furthering this approach, our visit to China celebrated the 10th anniversary of  the collaboration between the Chinese (CUAN), Hong Kong (UNAHK)...

My gratitude goes to the Danish Urological Nursing Society, who supported both the present EAUN chair, Susanne Vahr, Copenhagen University Hospital (DK), and me, former EAUN Chair Bente Thoft Jensen, Aarhus University Hospital (DK), in participating in the Annual Conference for Urologic Nurses last October...

The 7th Emirates International Urological Conference & 15th Annual Arab Association of Urology Conference was held in Dubai, November 2018. The conference was attended by participants from the Arab nations, with the nurses’ workshop attracting 34 nurses from the Philippines, China and the United...

My name is Tiago Santos, I am 28 years old and I graduated in 2012 at the Nursing School of Lisbon. I started my career as a registered nurse in a nursing home where I mainly worked in a rehabilitation...

From 8 to 10 November 2018, the first edition of the joint laparoscopy course meeting ‘Learn with the best’ took place in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Lisbon Marriott hotel. EAUN proudly contributed four speakers to the nurses day. This...

It is a central EAUN aim to foster the highest standards of urological nursing care throughout Europe and to facilitate the continued development of urological nursing in all its aspects. We acknowledge that the EAUN can learn a lot...

Since February 2018 I work as a uro-oncology practice nurse navigator. I have taken up this post after having worked as a nursing officer in a urology ward for 8 years. The practice nurse navigators have been established in...

The 4th Course of the European School of Urology Nursing on Holistic Prostate Cancer Care took place on 14-15 September 2018 in Krakow, Poland. The organising committee received 70 applications from Europe, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and Australia, however the course...

My role as a Urology Nurse Practitioner involves assessing individuals and delivering treatment plans, autonomously and collaboratively, in the context of many urological conditions including recurrent urinary tract infections; renal and ureteric calculi; flexible cystoscopy for haematuria diagnosis; and...

The 7th Post-EAUN meeting took place on 24 September in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. More than 90 participants from all fields of urology were present. The meeting was organised by Oncowijs, an association which initiates several educational courses and meetings....