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Dear EAUN members, The growing evidence in urology nursing care is amazing! With this column, the EAUN SIG Groups want to put the spotlight on recent publications in their field of interest. This month’s articles have been carefully chosen because of the scientific...

For several years, it is a trend in many countries to implement Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) services. ANP is an ‘umbrella’ term for extended nursing  practice. These ANP services are intended to achieve an improvement in holistic patient care.  Advanced Practice Nurse...

My name is Eleni Zouzoula and I am a registered nurse from Greece. In 2014 I completed my nursing studies. In 2019 I earned my master degree in Health Science  informatics and now I’m studying for my second master degree in Health Services Management....

Dear EAUN members, My motivation to apply to become a member of the board started while working on the latest prostate EAUN Guidelines, and has grown after attending the EAUN conference in 2019. I am professionally engaged and love constantly gaining new...

Bile fluid is produced in the liver (approx. 900 ml /24 h) and stored in the gallbladder. Together with the pancreatic secretions, the bile is released into the duodenum and reabsorbed and reused in the enterohepatic circulation. Bile is necessary for good digestion and...

The EAUN wants to congratulate Bente Thoft Jensen, RN, MPH, PhD, Department of Urology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, on her election as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). The virtual induction of Bente Thoft as a Fellow into...

This is a report of the nursing study ‘Withdrawing from treatment for bladder cancer: patient experience of BCG instillations’, which is awaiting publication in the International Journal of Urological Nursing. The primary aim of this mixed-methods study was to explore how patients’ experience with...

Dear EAUN members, The growing evidence in urology nursing care is amazing! With this column, the EAUN SIG Groups want to put the spotlight on recent publications in their field of interest. This month’s articles have been carefully chosen because of the scientific...

Is frailty an underestimated marker in clinical practice? Perioperative and long-term functional and oncological outcomes following radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer remain unchanged, despite advances in  technique and perioperative management as well as neoadjuvant therapy. Is there something we overlooked? The article below...

The European School of Oncology (ESO) in co-operation with Nature Reviews in Clinical Oncology and Critical Reviews in Oncology Hematology is holding a series of distance learning programmes on the Internet, called “e-sessions”.  The Expert delivers a lecture (a slide presentation of 25-30...

Since 2013, EAUN has accompanied me in my professional life with all its evidence-based and educational resources. I realised early that if I wanted to make a difference in the further professionalisation of urological care, I had to change...

Sleep-related painful erections are a very rare condition in men. Over the last 2 years, I have seen the condition only 4 times. No treatment Sometimes nightly erections become painful. The reason why remains unclear. Men wake up during...