Important Dates &
Upcoming Meetings

 

For details of related meetings, a regularly updated list of all meetings and conferences taking place can be found here.

 

30 March- 2 April 2008
EBMT Annual Congress
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  • 1-6 March, 2008
    Sofia, Bulgaria
    2nd ESO Masterclass in Oncology Nursing (European School of Oncology)
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  • 5-9 March, 2008
    Antalya, Turkey
    5th National Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Therapies Congress

    Included in the programme will be a joint certification course and examination with EBMT-NG called 1st Stem Cell Transplantation Nurse Certification Programme.

    Topics covered will be: Venous Access, Chemotherapy Administration, GVHD Care and Mucositis."
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  • 27-29 March, 2008
    Geneva, Switzerland
    6th EONS Spring Convention (European Oncology Nursing Society)
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  • 30 March- 2 April 2008
    EBMT Annual Congress, Florence, Italy
    34th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
     
    24th Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group
     
    7th Meeting of the EBMT Data Management Group
     
    2nd EBMT Patient & Family Day
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  • April 1, 2008
    EBMT NG Exchange Visit & Education Scolarship Deadline
    Applications for scholarships should be submitted to Erik Aerts
    Further information
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  • June 2-4, 2008
    Poznan, Poland
    6th Meeting of the EBMT Paediatric Disease Working Party

    1st Meeting of the EBMT Paediatric Nurses
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  • June 4-7, 2008
    Lugano, Switzerland
    10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma
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  • June 15 -19, 2008
    Ljubljana, Slovenia
    17th WCET Congress (World Council of Enterostomal Therapists)
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  • August 17-21, 2008
    Singapore
    15th ISNCC International Conference (International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care)

    Early registration deadline is 29th February, 2008
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National Groups Update

 

National Groups Updates

EBMT NG German National Group Update

During the last meeting of the German Nurses Group in October 2007 a new steering committee was elected. The new members are Gundula Hopp (Stuttgart), Gudrun Rother (Kiel) and Ralf Schmacker (Oldenburg) who was elected as speaker of the working group for bone marrow transplantation.

Two referees were invited and lectured on special subjects. Mr. Michael Jung gave a lecture on "Fatigue Assessment in paediatric oncology" and Mr. Frerk Baumann on "Physical trainings for patients with bone marrow transplantation". With regard to the latter subject questionnaires will be sent to the different centres for bone marrow transplantation/stem cell transplantation in Germany, Switzerland and Austria in order to obtain an overview of the services for physical training in the different hospitals.

The members of the working group studied the following subjects:

  • High risk patients on wards for bone marrow transplantation
  • Stem cell transplantation; patients with long-term stays on wards for bone marrow transplantation
  • Stem cell transplantation and nutrition in paediatric oncology. A nutrition manual was written which includes the recommendations of circa 50 BMT units in Germany. The manual can be downloaded here.

For more information on the EBMT NG German National Group please visit their website link.

EBMT-NG Middle European National Group Update

The EBMT-NG Middle European National Group carries on its research activities. In addition to the ongoing project focused on observation of oral mucositis characteristics and related clinical risk factors in patients after autologous stem cell transplantation, the Group performed a survey concerning characteristics of Protective isolation units within cooperating East and Middle European BMT centers.

Nurses from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia and Russia have been active participants in both of these research projects that will be presented in Florence EBMT meeting 2008.

Based on literature reviewed including the following;“JACIE” requests, internal research analysis (Nurse-staffing standards within Middle-European National EBMT Nurses Group transplant units).

Book of abstracts, EBMT Annual Congress 2007 in Lyon, Bone Marrow Transplant. (3/2007, supplement, p 243) And, discussion - the Middle European National Nurses Group has defined its internal and non-mandatory “Recommendations on Nurse-staffing in BMT units”.

During the summer of 2007, nurses within the group were given a generous offer on behalf of the University Hospital Zurich and the Canton Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland to take part in an educational hematology course. Two nurses from CZ have already registered for it and will participate in January 2008. The Grant offer was presented to cooperating transplant centers and two nurses from the Czech Republic have already registered for it.

In the autumn of 2007, the Chair of the group Eva Bystricka, greeted Nordic BMT transplant center nurses and via e-mail shared some experience and wished good luck to a potentially new international EBMT-NG.

For more detailed information on the groups’ activities and centers involved, please visit the following website link

The Group will be holding its next meeting during the EBMT 2008 Conference in Florence – we look forward to seeing you there!

Bc. Eva Bystricka
(EBMT-NG Middle European National Group Chair)

Dr. Samuel Vokurka
(cooperating physician)

 

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