Difficult Cases

Puzzled by an unusual case?

Urology nurses encounter challenges in daily clinical practice, prompting them to look for innovative ways in order to provide optimal patient care.

To fulfil the EAUN’s goal to share insights and best practices, we invite nurses to join the “Difficult Case” Session, which is one of the well-attended sessions and highlights in the Scientific Programme of the annual international EAUN Meeting.

With invited experts and an international audience, this dynamic and unique session aims to come up with fresh perspectives and nursing approaches through an interactive format.

Difficult Case Submission is now closed.

What we are looking for

We are looking for difficult or unusual, interesting cases on a topic relevant to urology, continence nursing or a related field. From the contributors who submitted, the EAUN will select the 5 best cases. The jury will not only look for resolved cases but are also open to unresolved but interesting cases.

Submission instructions

  • Submission instructions and rules are available on the EAUN submission website.
  • Carefully note the submission rules and criteria, because submissions that do not comply with these rules and criteria will be rejected!General rules:
    1. The authors and presenter of this Difficult Case must be registered nurses
    2. The Difficult Case title selected must be of relevance to urology nursing
    3. Please provide 2–5 high-resolution (200 dpi at 100%) numbered photos and/or illustrations that are mandatory to illustrate the problem and solution. It is highly recommended to include real photos of the patient as much as it is possible. Patient consent forms are required only if real patient photos are uploaded
    4. The solution described in this Difficult Case is your own solution and a nursing intervention
    5. When invited to present the Difficult Case you will present the case using the EAUN Difficult Case slides. Titles of the slides should be the following:
    • The problem
    • Nursing intervention
    • Material used
    • The results
    1. A written patient consent must be submitted only when real photos of the patient are included. Patient consent includes patient’s approval for the photos and its unrestricted use and the reproduction of the case for educational purposes. In case you do not include real photos from the patient – patient consent form is not mandatory
    2. A patient consent form can be downloaded below.
    3. You can upload the patient consent form at the end of the submission as an attachment in PDF or JPEG
    4. The copyright of photo and text material are transmitted to the EAUN
    5. A conflict of interest form will be filled out upon request of the EAUN
    6. A Difficult Case can only be submitted online
    7. Difficult Cases are not restricted to solved cases

 

Patient consent form

  • Please download the form here

Deadline

  • The deadline for submission is 1 December 2024
  • All submitters will be informed by email in December 2024.

Jury

The cases will be evaluated by an expert jury. Jury members are:

  • Ronny Pieters, Ghent (BE)
  • Eva Wallace, Dublin (IE)
  • Giulia Villa, Milan (IT)
  • Lynn Casey, Dublin (IE)
  • Netty Kinsella, London (GB)

Presentation instructions

  • All presenters are obliged to use these slides provided in their presentation in order to improve the comparability of the presentations and the cases for the attending participants
  • Presenters will be able to download the presentation template on the faculty website if they are invited to present their case.

Free registration

Those who submitted the selected cases (as decided by the jury) will be granted a free registration for the 25th International EAUN Meeting in Madrid and will be invited to present their case in 10 minutes (including discussion) during a session.

Free EAUN Membership

All submitters of Difficult Cases that are selected and have not become EAUN member previously will be granted free membership of the European Association of Urology Nurses (EAUN) for one year.

More information

For more information please contact: eaun@uroweb.org