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ABSTRACT
Introduction
There are 13000 nurses and nurse assistants in Slovenia (in a
country with two million people and with twelve years independence).
They are united in eleven regional organizations and associated
in the Nurses association of Slovenia. Inside this structure there
are about 30 professional sections, which cover different professional
fields. Among this The Section for Enterostomal Therapy is also
very active. The main goal of the association is to unit the ETs
and others nurses with special interest in enterostomal therapy.
The Section for ET has approximately 100 - 150 members. There
are 50 ET in Slovenia.
National
education training programs
We have one ET school at the University Medical Center Ljubljana.
It is organized every three or four years. Our program is evaluated
by the ETNEP - Education Committee that is organized by WCET -
World Council of Enterostomal Therapists. In 1999 14 new ETs (two
from Bosnia and Herzegovina) finished with education program,
in 2002 12 new ET was attend the school which contain 160 hours
of theory and 160 hours of practice. We also started with short
courses for wound management, stoma care and incontinence. Our
ET nurses were very active in ILCO Association (The Ostomy Association
Slovenia) where they have begun with education of volunteers.
Ostomy association
There are four units and some sections included in the Ostomy
Association Slovenia. Ostomates are very active. They are joined
in social life; they have lectures about eating habits, preventing
skin around stomas, new products on market and so on. We estimate
there are about 2000 ostomates in Slovenia. General ostomy association
ILCO has about 1300 registered members and their relatives. The
association has its own publication and gazette. In October 2001
they organized a course for volunteers to talk with future ostomates.
Future plans
We will tray to achieve appropriate status of ET as the independent
and autonomous profile the nurse with knowledge about ET, incontinence
care, fistulas and wound management. Every year we will tray to
organize one of two days and one one-day professional meeting.
We are going to choose the subject that will be propose of some
medical organizations or an individual. We are expecting that
nurses from former Yugoslavia are going to help each other to
link together in different way of education. In the future we
plane to organize ET school for foreign students.
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