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ESPUN
- Letter from President
Sweden, August 2007
Dear members, Another summer is soon over, and I am doing some reflections of the ESPUN´s activities lately. But first some words of the weather, which has not been quite as nice as all people wants when having some time off. Everyone has been talking about the bad weather; rain and showers, cold wind and all low pressures standing in a line waiting to wet us down. However, I am not sure that everyone is completely disappointed – me for example who have had a lot of work to do inside, such as painting. For this purpose the weather has been just perfect. You do not have to think about going to the beach or to sit back in the sun. No excuses for being inside – just perfect. Last November the board of ESPUN had their meeting in Ghent where our treasurer Catherine Renson and Katty van Cauvenberghe did their absolutely best to make us feel comfortable and welcome (and of course ready to work). We planned for the congress in Bruges and made the programme and discussed the abstracts submitted. Then to the congress in Bruges, which you may think was only one day’s programme and not as much to do or plan for – but I can tell you there is. We did not receive as many abstracts that we used to and we wanted the Research school to continue and also a panel discussion to come up. The article of Piet Hoebeke, a physician from Belgium, about “Urotherapy for 20 years, what have we learned?” inspired us to ask him to moderate the panel discussion, which he did in a professional and excellent way. However, the question still remains why a doctor wrote this article – why did not you or one of the well experienced urotherapists or nurses within the paediatric urology field, wrote it? Next article about our experiences must be written of an urotherapist I believe. I hereby challenge you to do so! This spring a lot of important actions took place for our group;
first we got the opportunity to receive the Journal of Paediatric Urology
(J Ped Urol), which is a scientific, medical journal, looking forward
to receive articles from nurses. Second one of our members, Janet Fishwick,
a well experienced nurse (caring for children and adolescents who need
to learn self catheterization), became a member of the editorial board
of J Ped Urol. Third three of our members defended their thesis; Marian
van der Weide (The Netherlands), Birgitta Lindehall (Sweden) and my
self: * Birgitta Lindehall * Ulla-Britt Jansson Hopefully, at least parts of the results will be presented and discussed at the next meeting, which will take place in Nice (France) the last week of April, 2008. I am looking forward to be seeing you all then. We welcome all papers from nurses within the urological field; either it’s about research or clinical matters as long as it follows the scientific rules and being appropriate and useful for nurses. The deadline for abstract submission is October the 31st – do not forget! If you have any questions or thoughts about our group or the next meeting; how to participate or proposals of the content – please do not hesitate to contact me ullabritt.jansson@vgregion.se I wish you all a nice autumn and good luck in your work! Ulla-Britt Jansson
European Society of Paediatric Urology Nurse group, ESPUN Boardmembers
From the left: Katty van Cauvenberghe (Belgium), Sue Vernon (UK),
Catherine Renson (Belgium), Ellen Jahnsen (Germany), Ulla-Britt Jansson
(Sweden), Monika Doroszkiewicz (Sweden) and Margrethe Maegaard (Denmark). | |
