"How do you do it..."- Online meeting

The meeting held on 10 March 2026 sought empower nurses by promoting collaboration between centres and fostering networking opportunities for professional development, as well as to compare nursing practices across Europe in order to identify similarities and differences, improve mutual understanding, and work towards greater standardisation of guidelines, with a specific focus on skin care practices.

Related topics on skin care:

1. Common skin problems in clinical care
2. Responsibility for Skin Assessment
3. Basic Skin Care Advice in Paediatric HCT
4. Availability of Specialist Support
5. Treatment of nappy rash/incontinence associated with dermatitis (IAD)
6. Products used in case of nappy rash
7. Products used for skin care
8. Prevention guidelines for Thiopeta and Treosulfan
9. Manifestation of GvHD of the skin
10. GvHD grading scales

Here you can view the meeting summary with some conclusions:

This nurses' meeting, held on 10 June 2025, brought together eight attendees from countries including Denmark, Germany, the UK, Italy, Finland, Spain and the Netherlands. Participants felt empowered by the opportunity to establish collaborations between centres and to connect with new colleagues. View the meeting recap and infographic to explore diverse nursing practices across Europe and the ongoing efforts in pain management in HCT.

Related topics to pain management in HCT:

1.Pain and HCT
2.Guidelines about pain management
3.Role of the nurse in pain management
4.Pain scales
5.What kind of pain medication is generally
used
6.Alternative pain relief

Here you can see a meeting summary with the main conclusions:

This nurses' meeting, held on 15 October 2024, united 24 attendees from countries including: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Qatar, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Arab Emirates. Attendees felt empowered after being able to create collaborations between centres and network with new colleagues. See the meeting recap and infographic to learn about the various nursing practices across Europe and the ongoing work towards standardising guidelines for Central Line Care.

Related topics to central line care:

1.  What type of central line is mostly used and what are the main challenges of care of a central line
2.  How often to change the plaster of a central line
3.  Protocol regarding closure of a central line
4.  Who inserts a central line
5.  Discharge of children with a central line & blood samples

Here you can see a meeting summary with the main conclusions:

The meeting, held on 6th June 2024, convened 22 attendees from various countries, including the UK, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Iraq, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its purpose was to empower nurses by fostering collaboration between centres and encouraging networking for professional development. Additionally, it aimed to facilitate a comparative analysis of nursing practices across Europe, with the goal of understanding diverse approaches to care and working towards standardising guidelines for discharge after HSCT.

The topics discussed regarding isolation rules were:

1. Discharge guidelines
2. Conditions of discharge from a medical and nursing perspective
3. Preparation for discharge
4. Discharge Interview
5. Post discharge care

Here you can see a meeting summary with the main conclusions:

The meeting, held on 28 February 2024, convened 25 attendees from various countries including Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, and Indonesia. Its purpose was to empower nurses through fostering collaboration between centres and encouraging networking for professional development. Additionally, it sought to facilitate a comparative analysis of nursing practices across Europe, aiming to understand diverse approaches to care and to work towards standardising guidelines for isolation rules in HSCT.

The topics discussed regarding isolation rules were:

1. Protective Gear
2. Protective Isolation Time
3. Food Restrictions
4. Isolation Room and Outside the Room
5. Hygiene Policy
6. Visitor Policy

Here you can see a meeting summary with the main conclusions: