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BullETin April 2017 1

Issue 2 April 2017

Vice-President’s MessageMuch activity to reportElizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN WCET™ Vice President, 2016-2018

The WCET™ Executive Board (EB) is a group of dedicated professionals who donate many hours to ensure that the WCET™ achieves the goals in the strategic plan. I am honored that you elected me to be part of the Executive Board and to once again serve you as your WCET™ Vice President (VP) .

In this issue of the BullETin, along with many of the stories of activities of our members, you will find reports from WCET™ Committee and Advisory Panel Chairpersons. So, I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to provide you with a Vice President’s Report for 2017 so you can be updated with what I have been doing for the last year.

You might ask, what do I do as VP? Of course you all know that I am an assistant editor for the WCET™ BullETin. In that capacity I write a VP message

for each WCET™ BullETin, assist the editor Laurent Chabal with issue ideas and also help proof the issue.

Serving as your vice president is an exciting but very full position. One of my many functions is to assist the WCET™ President with the logistical operations that are necessary to keep the WCET™ running smoothly. This includes assisting with developing agendas for EB conference calls, answering numerous emails, and participating on a variety of conference calls including the monthly EB meeting calls. It is not easy to develop a time of day for all EB members to participate on the calls. My assigned time is 5 AM on Saturday morning (the same time zone as our President and management company, Hauck & Associates). Depending on their country, the dedicated EB members are calling in on Saturday at 1600 hours, 1200 hours, 1100 hours, 1000 hours. One member calls in at midnight Friday night. So you can see that it is quite a span of time zones for us to accommodate to participate in the EB conference calls.

My specific responsibilities as VP also include overseeing the membership and international delegates (IDs). Jen Bank from our management company assists me in obtaining our most current membership and international delegate data from our electronic data base. I then interpret this data on my monthly VP report for the EB. I work with Laurent Chabal, Chairperson of the Publications and Communications Committee to keep the International Delegate list up-to-date on the WCET™ website. I also send any changes to Karen Zulkowski, Executive Editor of the WCET™ Journal so that this information is also current in the journal. Due to the publication deadlines, the journal ID list is not always as current as what is posted on the WCET™ website as ID changes may come in after a journal issue has gone to print. As Vice President, I enjoy very much emailing with you our WCET™ members and IDs. I hope the IDs are finding the ID manual, that was given to them at the ID meeting in Cape Town and is available on the WCET™ website, is helpful. If you have any suggestions for changes please email me and Jen Bank with your ideas.

In this issue:

VP Message in English, French Chinese and German 1-8WCET™ next conference: 9

News from the WCET™ Executive Board, WCET™ Committees and from WCET™ Constitution Advisory Panel 12Wenzhou ETNEP ET School PR China 18World Ostomy Awareness Day Celebration in Sri Lanka 22SingHealth Stop Pressure Injury Day 2016 25Congratulations to Mary Gloeckner 26Other coming Education Events 27


The VP is responsible for the WCET™ membership survey. As you might recall, I gave a verbal report regarding the 2015 membership survey at the General meeting in Cape Town. You will find an article that I wrote along with Jen Bank that summarizes the findings of the 2015 membership survey in the 2017 issue 1 of the WCET™ Journal. As WCET™ conducts a membership survey in the odd year, I sent emails that were in several languages to all members inviting them to provide suggestions for any changes to the 2017 survey questions. Thank you to all who responded with your great ideas. A revised 2017 survey questionnaire that incorporated all member suggestions received was reviewed and approved by the EB at its 4 March 2017 conference call meeting. Please look for the email invitation that will be sent to all members requesting their participation in the 2017 membership survey. It is hoped that once again our members will provide translation of my email into several languages. If you are willing to volunteer to do translation, please contact Jen Bank at [email protected]. Thank you again to all those who have given of their time to provide translations, it is most appreciated. The 2017 survey will open in mid-May and remain available until the beginning of October 2017. We hope as many of you as possible will participate in this important survey. I will give a preliminary report at the business meeting at the 22nd Biennial Congress in Kuala Lumpur in April 2018. A more detailed summary will be published later in the WCET™ Journal

Another role of the VP is to serve as EB liaison to the WCET™ Constitution Advisory Panel. This work is accomplished by email and phone. Please read the report by Karen Bruton, WCET™ Constitution Advisory Panel Chairperson which can be found later is this issue of the BullETin.

Other activities in my role as VP have included overseeing the WCET™ Wound Wise department in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Journal. I hope you enjoyed reading the first article which is an open access CEU article available on the AJN website (www.ajnonline.com) written by Sharon Baranoski, Kim LeBlanc and Mary Gloeckner on skin tears in the November 2016 issue. The next article will be on Medical Device Pressure Injuries written by Barbara Delmore and myself. Susan Stelton has agreed to write an ostomy article for the WCET™ Wound Wise section of AJN. Please contact Laurent Chabal and myself with your ideas for what you would like to write about for this important WCET™ initiative. It would be great to have more ostomy and continence manuscripts. Please remember that the AJN is a general nursing journal so this is a great opportunity to let non-ET nurses around the world learn about the WCET™ and our specialty practice. Thank you in advance for volunteering to write for this WCET™ section in the AJN.

As VP, I also provide comments to the NNGF and Education Committee on any forms or issues that they might want me to review. For example, I helped obtain Dr. R. Gary Sibbald as the speaker on Diabetes for the November webinar and served as the moderator. As Executive Editor Emeritus, I continue to do peer review of manuscripts submitted to the WCET™ Journal and solicit manuscripts for the journal. I also have represented the WCET™ in our official stands at some conferences.

As you can see, the role of the WCET™ VP is diverse; it keeps me busy. It is a very full role packed with many different activities. The VP works with the other members of the EB to achieve the best we can for the WCET™ organization. Thank you again for allowing me to be your 2016-2018 WCET™ Vice President. As always you can email me at [email protected].

Sincerely

Elizabeth


Tellement d’activités à transmettreElizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN Vice Présidente du WCET™, 2016-2018

(Thanks Laurent Chabal for this French translation)

Le Comité Exécutif (CE) du WCET™ est un groupe de professionnels engagés qui donnent sans compter leurs heures pour s’assurer que le WCET™ puisse atteindre les objectifs fixés dans son plan stratégique. Je suis honoré que vous m’ayez élue pour faire partie de ce Comité et que je puisse, encore une fois, me mettre à votre service en tant que Vice-Présidente (VP) du WCET™.

Dans ce numéro du BullETin, en plus de différents rapports d’activités transmis par nos membres, vous trouverez des rapports issus des responsables des différentes Commissions ainsi que du Comité consultatif du WCET™. Ainsi, j’ai pensé que cela était une bonne opportunité de vous transmette mon rapport de Vice-Présidente pour 2017, afin de vous tenir informé de ce que j’ai pu accomplir durant l’année passée.

Vous pouvez vous demander ce que je peux faire en tant que VP? Bien sûr, comme vous le savez, je suis l’assistante éditrice pour le BullETin du WCET™. Dans cette fonction, j’écris le message de la Vice-Présidente pour chacun des BullETins du WCET™, j’apporte son soutien à son éditeur Laurent Chabal en amenant des idées pour les numéros à venir et je participe à la relecture/corrections des éditions de ces numéros avant leur publication.

Servir comme Vice-Présidence est une fonction passionnante et très variée. Une de mes nombreuses missions est d’assister la Présidente du WCET™ dans les opérations logistiques qui sont nécessaires au bon fonctionnement du WCET™. Cela inclut d’aider à l’élaboration des ordres du jour des conférences téléphoniques du CE, de répondre à de nombreux courriels, et de participer à différentes conférences téléphoniques - y compris celles du CE qui ont lieu mensuellement. Il n’est pas si aisé de trouver un créneau horaire dans la journée qui permette à chaque membre du CE d’y participer. Pour ces rendez-vous téléphoniques, je dois être en ligne dès 5h du matin, le samedi matin (même fuseau horaire que pour notre Présidente et notre société de gestion Hauck & Associates). Selon d’où ils résident, les autres membres du CE doivent être en ligne à 16h, midi, 11h ou 10h. Il y a même une de nos membres qui être en ligne le Vendredi soir, à minuit. Vous mesurez ainsi ce que représente la prise en compte de nos différents fuseaux horaires pour l’organisation ces conférences téléphoniques du CE, afin de permettre à chacun d’y participer.

Mes responsabilités spécifiques en tant que VP est aussi d’avoir une vision globale des membres et des Délégués Internationaux (DI). Jen Bank, de notre société de gestion, m’aide à obtenir de la liste actualisée des membres et des Délégués Internationaux à jour de cotisation, en se basant sur notre base de données électronique. Cela me permet ensuite d’inclure ces informations à mon rapport mensuel au CE. Je travaille en collaboration avec Laurent Chabal, responsable de la Commission Publications & Communications pour assurer la mise à jour régulière de la liste des Délégués Internationaux postée sur le site web du WCET™. J’envoie aussi tous les changements éventuels que celle-ci pourrait avoir à Karen Zulkowski, Editorialiste du Journal du WCET™, de sorte que ces informations puissent aussi être actualisées dans le journal. A cause des délais d’impression, la liste du Journal n’est toujours à jour, comme peut l’être celle référencée sur le site web. Cela est dû au fait que les DI peuvent changer alors que le numéro du Journal est en cours d’impression.

En tant que Vice-Présidente, je suis ravie de pouvoir communiquer avec vous, membres et DI du WCET™, par courriels. J’espère qu’en tant que DI, vous trouvez utile le livret décidé aux DI. Il vous a été remis lors de la réunion des DI au Cap et il est posté sur le site web du WCET™. Si vous avez des suggestions ou des idées de changement le concernant, merci de les envoyer par email ainsi qu’à Jen Bank.

La VP est responsable de l’enquête à destination des membres du WCET™. Pour rappel, j’ai fait un résumé oral des résultats de l’enquête réalisée en 2015 lors de l’Assemblée Générale au Cap. Vous trouverez dans le Journal du WCET™, numéro 1 de 2017, un article que j’ai coécrit avec Jen Bank qui en reprend les principaux résultats. J’ai envoyé à tous les membres un courriel en différentes langues pour vous inviter à m’envoyer des commentaires et des suggestions de changement pour le questionnaire qui sera utilisé pour l’enquête 2017. Merci à tous ceux qui m’ont répondu,


ainsi que pour vos excellentes idées. Le questionnaire 2017, qui inclut toutes ces suggestions de membres, a été revu et approuvé par le CE le 4 mars 2017 lors de notre conférence téléphonique. Merci de prendre connaissance du courriel d’invitation à répondre à ce questionnaire lorsqu’il vous sera envoyé. Ce courriel devra être encore une fois traduit en différentes langues. Si vous êtes d’accord pour effectuer une de ces traductions, merci de contacter Jen Bank par courriel à [email protected]. Merci encore à toutes celles et ceux qui auront donné de leur temps pour réaliser ces traductions, cela est grandement apprécié. L’enquête 2017 sera ouverte vers mi-Mai prochain et ce jusqu’à début Octobre 2017. Nous espérons que vous puissiez participer en nombre à cette enquête importante. Je vous en donnerais un retour préliminaire lors de notre Assemblée Générale qui aura lieu lors de notre 22ème Congrès Biennal à Kuala Lumpur, en Avril 2018. Un résumé plus détaillé sera publié ultérieurement dans le Journal du WCET™.

Un autre rôle de VP est d’être le lien du Comité Exécutif avec le Comité Consultatif du WCET™ sur la Constitution. Ce travail se fait par courriels et par téléphones. Merci de prendre connaissance du rapport rédigé par Karen Bruton, responsable de ce Comité Consultatif. Ce rapport se trouve dans ce numéro du BullETin.

Une autre partie de mon rôle de VP est de participer à la relecture d’articles scientifiques qui seront publiés dans le Journal Américain des Infirmier-e-s (AJN), dans une rubrique dédiée au WCET™ et aux soins de plaies. J’espère que vous avez pris du plaisir à lire le premier article écrit par Sharon Baranoski, Kim LeBlanc et Mary Gloeckner sur les dermabrasions. Il a été publié dans le numéro de Novembre 2016 et il est en accès libre sur le site web du AJN (www.ajnonline.com). Le prochain article rédigé par Barbara Delmore et moi-même aura pour thème les lésions de pression dues aux dispositifs médicaux. Susan Stelton a accepté d’écrire un article sur les stomies dans cette section dédiée au WCET™ et aux soins de plaies. Merci de contacter Laurent Chabal et moi-même si vous avez envie d’écrire pour cette importante initiative du WCET™, en nous faisant part de vos idées. Il serait formidable d’avoir plus d’articles en lien avec les soins aux stomies et aux troubles de la continence. Merci de vous rappeler que le AJN est une revue de soins généraliste. C’est donc une belle opportunité de faire connaitre, à des Infirmier-e-s non Stomathérapeutes du monde entier, ce qu’est le WCET™ ainsi que ce que recouvre notre activité clinique. Merci par avance de vous proposer volontaire pour écrire pour cette section du WCET™ dans le AJN.

En tant que VP, je propose des avis à la Fondation Norma N. Gill (NNGF) et à la Commission Education sur des formulaires ou des questions qui pourraient m’être adressés ou qui auraient besoin d’être supervisés. J’ai, entre-autre, obtenu que Dr R. Gary Sibbald puisse être orateur sur le thème du diabète pour le séminaire en ligne de Novembre passé, et j’en ai été modératrice. Comme Editorialiste émérite, je continue de relire et réviser des articles soumis en vue d’être publiés dans le Journal du WCET™, ainsi que de solliciter les personnes à écrire pour le journal. J’ai aussi représenté officiellement le WCET™ sur des stands lors de conférences.

Comme vous pouvez le constater, le rôle de VP du WCET™ est divers et me maintien occupée. C’est un rôle très riche, avec de nombreuses activités différentes. La VP travaille en collaboration avec les autres membres du CE pour accomplir le meilleur de ce que nous pouvons faire pour le WCET™. Merci encore pour m’avoir permis d’être votre Vice-Présidente du WCET™ 2016-2018. Vous pouvez toujours me contacter par courriel à [email protected].

Cordialement

Elizabeth


很多活动需要报告Elizabeth A. Ayello 博士，註冊護士，ACNS-BC，CWON，ETN，MAPWCA，FAAN

WCET™ 副總裁2016-2018

(Thanks to Michelle Lee for this Chinese translation)

WCET™执行委员会（EB）是一组特别的专业人士，他们贡献了许多时间，以确保WCET™实现计划中的目标。我很荣幸你选我加入执行委员会，并再次为你担任WCET™副总裁（VP）。

在本期公告中，除了我们会员的许多活动故事之外，你还可以找到WCET™委员会和顾问团主席的报告。所以，我认为这是一个很好的机会，为你提供2017年副总裁的报告，以便你知悉我在过去一年所办的事情。

你可能会问，我这位副总裁是做什么？当然，你们都知道我是WCET™公告的助理编辑。我为每期WCET™公公公公公公总裁讯息，并辅助编辑Laurent Chabal作相关议题的构思，以及协助批核议题。

担任副总裁是一个令人兴奋但非常满足的位置。我的许多功能之一是协助WCET™总裁进行必要的后勤操作，以确保WCET™平稳运行。这包括帮助制定执行委员会会议电话的议程，回答大量电子邮件，以及参与各种电话会议，包括每月的执行委员会电话会议。设定所有执行委员会成员参与电话会议的时间并不容易。我的指定时间是星期六上午5时（与我们的总裁和管理公司Hauck公Associates相同的时区）。根据个别成员所在的国家，执行委员会成员会在星期六1600时，1200时，1100时，1000公接收来电，其中有一位成员在星期五晚上半夜进行电话会议。所以你可以看到，这是一个跨越时区的执行委员会电话会议。

我作为副总裁的具体职责还包括监察成员和国际代表（ID）。我们管理公司的Jen Bank协助从我们的电子数据库获得最新的会员和国际代表的数据和资料。然后我在每月的副总裁报告中分析这些数据。我与出版和传播委员会主席Laurent Chabal合作，使国际代表名单在WCET™网站上保持更新。我还向WCET™期刊的执行编辑Karen Zulkowski发送所作的更改，以便这些信息在期刊也是更新的。由于刊物期限，期刊内的国际代表列表并不总是与WCET™网站上发布的内容一样，因为国际代表可能在刊物期限后更改。作为副总裁，我喜欢用电子邮件与我们的WCET™会员和国际代表联系。我希望国际代表对在开普敦的ID会议上给他们的ID手册，以及在WCET™网站的信息会对他们有所帮助。如果你有任何更改的建议，请将你的想法用电子邮件联络我和Jen Bank。

副总裁也负责WCET™会员调查。你可能还记得，我在开普敦的大会上就2015年会员调查做了口头报告。你会发现我和Jen Bank一起总结了2015年会员调查，并将调查结果在WCET™期刊2017年第1期发表。由于WCET™在奇数年进行会员调查，我曾经将电子邮件以多种语言发送给所有成员，邀请他们就2017年调查问题提供更改建议。感谢所有回应你的想公的人。修订后的2017年调查问卷包括所有会员的建议，已经获得执行委员会在2017年3月4日的电话会议上审核和批准。请注意我们将会发送电子邮件给所有会员，邀请他们参加2017年会员调查。希望我们的会员再次将我的电子邮件翻译


成多种语言。如果你愿意做翻译，请联系Jen Bank的电子邮箱：[email protected]。再次感谢所有那些志愿人士提供翻译。 2017年的调查将于5月中旬开始，并将持续到2017年10月初。我们希望尽可能多些人参加这项重要的调查。我将在2018年4月在吉隆坡举行的第22届双年大会的会员大会上提供初步的报告。更详细的摘要将会在稍后的WCET™期刊发表。

副总裁的另一角色是担任WCET™宪法咨询小组执行委员会的联络员。这项工作是通过电子邮件和电话完成。请阅读Karen Bruton，WCET™宪章咨询小组主席在本公告中的报告。

我作为副总裁的其他活动包括在美国护理学杂志（AJN）监督WCET™Wound Wise专栏。我希望你喜欢阅读第一篇由Sharon Baranoski，KimLeBlanc和Mary Gloeckner在2016年11月刊所写有关皮肤撕破的文章，这篇CEU文章可在AJN网站 (www.ajnonline.com) 获取。下一篇将是由Barbara Delmore和我写的医疗器械压力损伤。 Susan Stelton也承诺为AJN的WCET™Wound Wise撰写有关造口的文章。如果你对WCET™ Wound Wise专栏有关文章撰写的意见，可以联系Laurent Chabal和我。我们希望有更多相关造口和理遗护理的手稿。AJN是普通护理的杂志，因此这是一个很好的机会让全世界的非ET护士了解WCET™和我们的专业工作。我预先感谢你们志愿在AJN为WCET™部分撰写文章。

作为副总裁，我还向NNGF和教育委员会提供任何形式的审查，问题或意见。例如，我帮助邀请Dr. Gary Sibbald作为11月网络研讨会的糖尿病讲师，并担任主持人。作为荣誉执行主编，我继续对提交给WCET™杂志的手稿进行评审，并征求杂志的手稿。我也代表WCET™正式参与某些会议。

正如你所看到的，WCET™副总裁的角色是多样化的; 它让我保持忙碌。这角色是包含许多不同活动的全职工作。副总裁与执行委员会的其他成员合作，为WCET™组织实现最好的目标。再次感谢你容许我成为你的2016-2018 WCET™副总裁。一如既往，你可以发送电子邮件给我[email protected]。

真诚的

伊丽莎白


Es gibt vieles zu berichtenElizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN WCET™ Vizepräsident, 2016-2018

(Thank you Jacqueline Metzher De Bortoli, member of the Swiss Stomatherapists Association’ s Comity, for this German translation)

Der Vorstand des WCETTM setzt sich aus einer Gruppe engagierter Berufsleute zusammen, welche sich viele Stunden einsetzen, um sicherzustellen, dass der WCETTM die strategisch gesetzten Ziele erreicht. Ich fühle mich geehrt, dass sie mich in den Vorstand gewählt haben und dass ich ihnen einmal mehr als ihre WCETTM Vizepräsidentin (VP)dienen kann.

In dieser Ausgabe des BullETin werden sie, nebst vielen Geschichten über Aktivitäten von unseren Mitgliedern, Berichte vom WCETTM Vorstand und von Vorsitzenden der Expertenteams finden. Deshalb dachte ich mir, dass dies eine gute Gelegenheit für mich ist ihnen einen Bericht des VP für 2017 zur Verfügung zu stellen, damit sie sehen was ich das letzte Jahr alles gemacht habe.

Sie mögen sich fragen, was ich als VP so mache? Natürlich wissen sie, dass ich Co- Redaktorin für das WCETTM BullETin bin. In dieser Aufgabe schreibe ich eine VP Mitteilung für jedes WCETTM BullETin, unterstütze den Redaktor Laurent Chabal mit Ideen und helfe die Themen Korrektur zu lesen.

Ihnen als ihre VP zu dienen ist eine aufregende aber auch ausfüllende Tätigkeit. Einer meiner wichtigsten Aufgaben ist es den WCETTM Präsidenten bei logistischen Belangen, welche für das reibungslose Funktionieren des WCETTM wichtig sind, zu unterstützen. Dies beinhaltet die Unterstützung der Organisation von Telefonkonferenzen des Vorstandes, unzählige Mails beantworten, und die Teilnahme an den verschiedensten Telefonkonferenzen inklusive den monatlichen Telefonkonferenzen des Vorstandes. Es ist nicht einfach ein geeignetes Zeitfenster zu finden damit alle Vorstandsmitglieder an dem Anruf teilnehmen können. Mein festgelegter Zeitpunkt ist samstags um 5 Uhr in der Früh (in derselben Zeitzone wie unsere Präsidentin und unsere Management Firma Hauck & Associates). Je nach Land und Zeitzonen der engagierten Vorstandsmitglieder rufen diese samstags um 16 Uhr, 12 Uhr, 11 Uhr, 10 Uhr an. Ein Mitglied ruft freitags um Mitternacht an. Sie sehen also, dass es eine grosse Spannweite an Zeitzonen sind, welche es für die Vorstands Telefonkonferenzen zu koordinieren gilt.

Meine spezielle Verantwortlichkeit als VP beinhaltet auch die Beaufsichtigung der Mitgliedschaften und der internationalen Delegierten (ID). Jen Bank von unserer Management Firma hilft mir die Daten unserer aktuellen Mitgliedschaften und internationalen Delegierten von unserer Datenbank zu erhalten. Ich werte dann diese Daten in meinem monatlichen VP Bericht für den Vorstand aus. Ich arbeite mit Laurent Chabal, Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Publikation und Kommunikation zusammen, um die Liste der internationalen Delegierten auf der Website des WCETTM auf dem neusten Stand zu halten. Ich schicke alle Änderungen an Karen Zulkowski, Chefredaktorin des WECTTM Journals, damit diese Informationen auch im Journal aktuell sind. Wegen des Abgabetermins ist die Liste der ID im Journal nicht immer auf dem selben Stand wie auf der WECTTM Website, da zum Beispiel ein Wechsel der ID erst nach dem Druck bekannt gegeben worden ist. Als VP geniesse ich es sehr mit euch, unseren WECTTM Mitglieder und ID, zu mailen. Ich hoffe, dass die ID das ID Handbuch, welches ihnen am ID Treffen in Cape Town ausgehändigt worden ist und welches auch auf der WECTTM Website erhältlich ist, hilfreich finden. Wenn sie irgendwelche Änderungsvorschläge haben melden sie sich bitte per Mail bei mir oder Jen Bank mit ihren Ideen.

Die VP ist verantwortlich für die WECTTM Mitgliederumfrage. Wie sie sich vielleicht erinnern, gab ich an der Generalversammlung in Cape Town einen mündlichen Bericht über die Mitgliederumfrage 2015 ab. Sie finden einen Artikel , welchen ich mit Jen Bank geschrieben habe, mit der Zusammenfassung der Resultate der Mitgliederumfrage im WECTTM Journal Nr.1 2017. Da der WECTTM eine Mitgliederumfrage in den ungeraden Jahren durchführt, habe ich Mails in verschiedenen Sprachen an alle Mitglieder geschickt, mit der Einladung Verbesserungsvorschläge für die Mitgliederumfrage 2017 zu machen. Ich danke allen, welche ihre grossartigen Ideen eingebracht haben. Der überarbeitete und angepasste Umfragebogen 2017 wurde vom Vorstand am 4. März 2017 gutgeheissen. Bitte


beachten sie das Mail mit der Einladung zur Teilnahme an der Mitgliederumfrage. Ich hoffe, dass das Mail von unseren Mitgliedern wiederum in die verschiedenen Sprachen übersetzt werden wird. Wenn Sie sich gerne für eine Übersetzung bereit erklären würden kontaktieren Sie bitte Jen Bank ([email protected]). Nochmals herzlichen Dank an alle, die sich bereits für eine Übersetzung zur Verfügung gestellt haben, wir schätzen dies sehr. Die Umfrage 2017 wird Mitte Mai starten und bis Anfang Oktober offen bleiben. Wir hoffen, dass möglichst viele von ihnen an dieser wichtigen Umfrage teilnehmen werden. Ich werde einen Vorbericht am Zweijährlich stattfindenden 22. Kongress in Kuala Lumpur im April 2018 abgeben. Eine detailliertere Zusammenfassung wird später im WCETTM Journal veröffentlicht werden.

Eine weitere Rolle der VP ist die Verbindungsfunktion zwischen dem Vorstand und dem Statuten Beratungsgremiums des WCETTM. Diese Arbeit wird per Mail und Telefon erledigt. Bitte lesen sie dazu den Bericht von Karen Burton, Vorsitzende des WCETTM Statuten Beratungsteams, welchen sie in dieser Ausgabe des BullETin finden werden.

Andere Tätigkeiten in meiner Rolle als VP beinhalteten die Überwachung der WCETTM Wundrichtlinienkapitel im American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Journal. Ich hoffe, dass sie den ersten Artikel über Hautrisse mit Interesse gelesen haben. Dieser Artikel wurde von Sharon Baranoski, Kim LeBlanc und Mary Gloeckner geschrieben und in der November Ausgabe 2016 veröffentlicht, er ist auch auf der Website des AJN (www.ajnonline.com) frei zugänglich. Der nächste Artikel wird das Thema „Druckulzera verursacht durch medizinische Geräte“ behandeln und wurde von Barbara Delmore und mir geschrieben. Susan Stelton hat sich bereit erklärt einen Artikel über Stomata für das WCETTM Wundberatungskapitel im AJN zu schreiben. Bitte kontaktieren Sie Laurent Chabal oder mich um uns ihre Ideen für weitere Artikel für diese wichtige WECTTM Initiative mitzuteilen. Es wäre grossartig mehr Stoma- und Kontinenz Manuskripte zu erhalten. Bitte denken sie daran, dass das AJN eine allgemeine Pflegezeitschrift ist und somit eine grossartige Gelegenheit anderen Pflegenden rund um den Globus den WCETTM und unsere spezialisierte Pflege näher zu bringen. Danke im Voraus für ihre Artikel für dieses WCETTM Kapitel im AJN.

Als VP überprüfe und kommentiere ich auf Wunsch alle möglichen Formulare oder Themen des NNGF (Norman N Gill Foundation) und des Ausbildungskomitees. Zum Beispiel half ich dabei Dr. R. Gary Sibbald als Referent zum Thema Diabetes für das Webseminar vom November zu gewinnen, und diente dabei als Moderatorin. Als ehemalige Chefredaktorin evaluiere ich weiterhin Artikel, welche beim WCETTM Journal eingereicht werden und bitte um Artikel für das Journal. Ich repräsentierte auch den WCETTM an unseren offiziellen Ständen bei einigen Konferenzen.

Wie sie sehen, ist die Rolle der VP vielseitig und hält mich auf Trab. Es ist eine ausfüllende Funktion, vollgepackt mit vielen verschiedenen Aktivitäten. Die VP arbeitet mit den anderen Mitgliedern des Vorstands zusammen, um für den WCETTM das bestmöglichste zu erreichen. Nochmals ganz herzlichen Dank, dass sie mir erlauben Ihre WCETTM VP für die Jahre 2016-2018 zu sein. Wie immer können sie mich unter folgender Mailadresse erreichen [email protected].

Mit freundlichen Grüsse

Elizabeth


WCET™ Next Conference, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia

Dear friends and colleagues,

Once again, greeting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

We are delighted to announce that the local organizing committee is progressing well with our planning for the 22nd Biennial Congress 2018.

We are in the midst of planning our half a day pre congress workshop, the scientific program as well as identifying the keynote speakers and topics of interest.

We have identified topics for our pre congress workshop which are:

• Diabetic Foot Management: Assessment & Care including Preventive measures.

• Peristomal Skin Complications and its management including the use of SACS™ Instrument, 2nd Edition Assessment and Classification of Peristomal Skin,

• Urinary & Faecal Incontinence: History, Evaluation & Management including pelvic floor excercises,

• Communication: Challenges in Ethnocentric community.

We are in the process of finalizing the program with the help of WCET™ Congress Coordinator Ms Dee Waugh, WCET™ Congress & Meeting Coordinator.


WCET™ 2018 Conference Local Organising Committee at work

We are also planning to invite our Diabetic Foot Care team in Kuala Lumpur together with Podiatrist Team from Brunei for the Diabetic Foot Management and the Continence Team from Singapore for the Urinary Incontinence session.

The abstract submission shall be opened soon, we are targeting for April and we hope to get as many abstracts as possible. We are glad that the WCET™ Education Committee led by Ms Denise Hibbert has agreed to assist us in this.

We would like to welcome all Enterostomal Therapists, Nurses, Doctors and Health care professionals to join us by sharing your experiences or research in this conference.

We are also working very hard to get traders participations as to provide opportunities to all to keep abreast with the latest products related in the market. We shall publish and post all information in our Facebook WCET™ 2018 and you can also visit our website at http://www.wcet2018.com/

We are in the process of updating all the relevant information for the conference in our channels of communication. Till we meet again in our updates of the conference.

Regards to all.

IMPORTANT DATES

Super early bird registration opens 1 April 2017

Call for abstracts 1 April 2017

Deadline for abstract submission 31 August 2017

Abstract acceptance notification 15 October 2017

Mariam Mohd Nasir Congress Chairman WCET™ 2018


WCET™ Norma N. Gill Day June 26: Let’s celebrate!!

June 26 would be our WCET™ Norma N. Gill Day and October 1st the next World Ostomy Awareness Day!

Let us know about what you have done for these special days. The next issues of the WCET™ BullETin would be dedicated to these stories. Many thanks in advance!

http://www.awestomy.com/happy-stomaversary/

Even if May 12 would be the International Nurse Day and deserves its own celebration : more information on http://www.icn.ch/publications/2017-nursing-a-voice-to-lead-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals/,


News from WCET™ Executive Board, WCET™ Committees and from WCET™ Constitution Advisory Panel

WCET™ Membership Survey 2017As every two years, WCET™ members have the opportunity to give feed-back about the WCET™. Your comments are really helpful to improve our actions and give us guidance. This Survey will be translated in Chinese, French, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish.

You will receive an email when it will ready and we invite you to complete it.

Many thanks in advance.

Elizabeth A. Ayello, WCET™ Vice President 2016-2018, on behalf of the WCET™ Executive Board

Call for Board Nominations 2018-2020Nomination for President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Chairpersons of the following 3 committees (Education, Publications and Communications, and the NNGF) are now open. Chairperson position nominations come from the specific committee. Please check the bylaws for the roles and responsibilities of any of these board positions.

The nominations forms are now available from the WCET™ ([email protected]) Central Office or the WCET™ website (www.wcetn.org) in the Member Only page. A completed nomination form consisting of a current jpeg photograph and a summary of professional experience must be received by Jen Bank at Central Office no later than 30 June 2017. Eligible candidate information will then be published in the WCET™ Journal and BullETin at least six months prior to the upcoming biennial Congress.

WCET™ Education Committee ReportDenise Hibbert, RGN, MSc (WHTR), BSc(hons), DipHE, STN, ONC WCET™ Education Committee Chair, On behalf of the Education Committee

The 2016-2018 WCET™ Education Committee is made up of 27 members plus a chairperson, representing 16 countries. Members are invited by the incoming Chairperson ensuring broad country representation; members are required to be experienced ETs who have been involved in developing or providing a WCET™ recognised Enterostomal Therapy Nursing Education Programs (ETNEP)/ Recognised Education Programs (REP). As the primary language of the WCET™ at the moment is English, good English language skills are a necessity.


Country Education Members

Australia 3

Brazil 3

Canada 2

Chile 1

China 5

Colombia 1

Hong Kong 2

Indonesia 2

Iran 1

Malaysia 1

Mexico 1

Saudi Arabia 1

Switzerland 1

Taiwan 1

UK 1

USA 1

The main function of the education committee is to promote the development and maintenance of quality education programs around the world, aimed at ensuring patients with stoma, wound and continence conditions are cared for by experts. We work with Program Directors ensuring that ETNEP/REPs meet and maintain the required standards for recognition by the WCET™. Re-recognition is required every 2-5 years. Within the last 10 months at least 459 students have graduated from WCET™ recognized programs, this is excluding the programs that are recognized by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with national ET Associations. The day-to-day work also involves helping with translation, review of application documents, in undertaking in-country site visits to check academic and clinical integrity, issuing certificates of program recognition and student certificates. We communicate with each student to ensure they are invited to become members of the WCET™ and that they are aware of the WCET™ BullETin and Journal. The chair attends monthly Executive Board Meetings, produces a monthly report, communicates with the Education Committee Members and task force groups to ensure the work of the Education Committee is ongoing, including chairing the Education Committee and ETNEP/REP Directors meetings held on congress years. Additionally many members of the education committee are involved in the WCET™ Congress, teaching on national and international ETNEP/REP programs, promoting awareness of the WCET™s work, in health promotion campaigns and in developing or disseminating evidence based educational resources.

This year I feel special mention needs to go to Ms. Mariam Mohd Nasir who is Chairing the 2018 WCET™ Congress in Kuala Lumpa; to Ms. Heidi Hevia and Ms. Vera Santos for their work in Latin America, and particularly Ms. Hevia for founding the Latin American Multidisciplinary Confederation in Wound Ostomy and Continence Care (COMLHEI), and in working to offer an international ETNEP prioritizing the Latin American nurses; to Ms. Elizabeth English and Ms. Carmen George for bringing the first ETNEP to Kenya; to our representatives from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for collaborating to bring the total number of ETNEPs in China to 12; to Mr. Chak Hau Pang in working to achieve a MOU with the WCET™ on behalf of the Hong Kong Enterostomal Therapists Association (HKETA); to Mr. Laurent


Chabal and Ms. Vera Santos for their work on completing the MOU between WCET™ and the French Association of Enterostomal Therapists (AFET), and to Ms. Julie Weng who coordinated the 1st Chinese ETNEP/REP Directors Meeting with Ms. Louise Forest-Lalande and myself, hosted and chaired by Ms. Huo Xiaorong, Director of the Nanjing ETNEP and Executive Director of Jiangsu Nursing Association .

Table below shows the of Education Committee achievements for the period April 2016 to January 2017. I would like to take this opportunity to thank these hard working members who perform their duties with great enthusiasm, on a voluntary basis, while holding down full time jobs and also their national ET association duties.

Activity Description Numbers

New ETNEP/REP Reviews Document review 5 by 3 members + Chair

Site visits 3

Re-recognition ETNEP/REP Reviews

Document review 18 x 3 members + Chair

Site visit 12

ETNEP Reports Pre-site visit 21

Final 12

Executive Board Reports Edu Committee 7

Additional Teaching Activities other countries

Invited speakers At least 16 countries

Certificates Student-graduated 459

Student invitations to join WCET™

Students 459

Promotion of WCET™ Publication

Directors/Students 21/459

Publication BullETin 11

WCET™ Journal 2

Guideline/Form development/Review/Translation

ETNEP/REP translation into Chinese (complete)

Update ETNEP/REP Programs (complete)

Site Visit (in process)

3

Educational Webinars Skin Tears,

Diabetic Foot

Continence Assessment

3

Videos Stoma site (in process) 1

Online Edu Resource Stoma siting (in process)

Colostomy irrigation (in process) 2

MOU Complete 2

Involvement in Twinning Projects

Members 5

Country Director Meetings China 4 members


WCET™ Norma N. Gill Fondation Committee ReportArum Ratna Pratiwi, WCET™ NNGF Committee Chairperson

The NNGF Committee has four targets to be achieved in 2016;

1. Distributing Scholarship on target To distribute scholarship on the right target, we have three strategic plan, which are: – Reviewing scholarship application During April – December 2016, NNGF Committee reviewed 2 ETNEP scholarships, 1 general scholarship

and 25 membership scholarships.

Scholarship reviewed Number Scholarship Accepted

ETNEP Scholarship 2 1

General Scholarship 1 1

Membership Scholarship 25 25

– Developing scoring guideline for ETNEP Scholarship The draft of scoring guideline is being discussed among NNGF committee members. This scoring guideline

is expected to help reviewers of ETNEP scholarship application to have the same perceptions during reviewing the application.

– Revising Congress Travel Scholarship (CTS) form in web The draft has been reviewed for the 2018 congress in Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia. Hopefully, it will appeared

on WCET™ web site around April to be accessed by WCET™ members.

2. Continuing identify target and recruit new donors for NNGF funds Producing a short video to promote NNGF. We collect a short video from Nepal, Indonesia and some pictures from Kenya, the countries where NNGF has a

role to help and develop Enterostomal Therapy nursing and resulting in improving patient’s quality of life. We had a plan to produce a short promotional video for NNGF since last year. It is needed to raise awareness about what NNGF do, and gain a lot of support from members and everyone who see the video.

3. Strengthen relationship between existing donor and NNGF 3.1 Acknowledge their name in the role of honor in WCET™ website and Journal. 3.2 Writing annual report for existing donors.

4. Strengthen relationship among NNGF Committee member 4.1 Maintain communication through email 4.2 Providing update about NNGF via newsletter. As NNGF Committee chairperson, I am aware that the

newsletters were not productive in the last year. Hopefully, we will produce at least three newsletters in a year and have a better communication.

Country NNGF MembersAustralia 4

Brazil 2

China 1

Indonesia 1

Saudi Arabia 2

South Africa 1

UK 1

USA 1


WCET™ Publications & Communications Committee ReportLaurent Chabal, Specialised ET Nurse and UAS Lecturer, WCET™ P&C Committee Chairperson

(Thanks to Dr Kathleen Leask Capitulo and Louise Forest-Lalande, members of the Committee, for their review)

Since the March, 2016 WCET™ Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, 16 members from 13 countries have joined or renewed their involvement this Committee.

Thank you for your support, your comments and for sending me regularly texts for the WCET™ BullETin. It is great to have you all on board!

Country Publications Members

Australia 1

Brazil 1

Canada 2

China 1

Hong Kong 1

Indonesia 2

Malaysia 1

Philippines 1

Saudi Arabia 1

Sri Lanka 1

South Africa 1

Taiwan 1

USA 2

In 2017, we hope to expand and improve communication within the WCET™ international community.

In fact, Irma Puspita Arisanty, from Indonesia and member of the Publications & Communications Committee, proposed that we use inside the Committee the Whatsapp Group as a tool to do it. This new section of the BullETin is an answer to the last Membership survey and let you know more about the work of each Committee.

Irma and her colleague Saldy Yusuf are responsible to send to our company Manager inputs for our WCET™ Twitter account and FaceBook page. Do not hesitate to share with them what you think would be interesting to be posted on these media.

Part of the work to enhance communication is the update and improvement of the WCET™ website and database. Dee Waugh, our WCET™ Congress and Meeting Coordinator, other Committee Chairpersons and members of the Executive Board are very helpful in this task. Special thanks to our WCET™ President Susan Stelton, Vice President Elizabeth A. Ayello, and Director of Administration Jennifer Bank for their outstanding help.

I continue to work, with the help of many members (especially the WCET™ IDs), to increase the number of available translations of the WCET™ Country Travel Card. We now have Travel Cards available online in the following languages: Danish, Hungarian, Japanese, Nepalese, Russian, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino) and Thai : http://www.wcetn.org/country-travel-card. If you are interested in providing translations for additional languages, please contact me. I will


then send you the English version of the file in a Word document as a base for your translation to the target language. Your efforts would be greatly appreciated and will help ET Nurses, professionals, and people with ostomies who speak your language.

The WCET™ website now has a special Educational Resources page, http://www.wcetn.org/wcet-educational-resources, where all WCET™ books, webinars and other WCET™ educational productions are referenced.

I want to thank all WCET™ members who send me emails about what they have done, achieved, and learned. Your stories are amazing, inspiring and contribute to build relevant BullETins that let all the WORLD know about YOU and US!

Thanks to Greg Paull, member of this Committee, and his Cambridge Publishing’ team for their support. Thanks to Michelle Lee for her translation of the VP Message in Chinese, done always on time from an issue to another.

As I invite you to keep writing for the WCET™ BullETin, I also invite you to write for the WCET™ Journal. It is essential that the important work of WCET™ members be published. Sharing the findings, lessons learned, and implications of projects and research will enable us all to build evidence based practice, improving care throughout the world. First time authors and clinicians should consider writing an article for the WCET™ column, Stories from the Bedside. Helpful tips on writing for the column can be found in an article on writing by Elizabeth A. Ayello and in guidance given by Karen Zulkowski, our Journal Executive Editor, found at : https://wocet.memberclicks.net/journal-submissions. Connecting members, the WCET™ Journal Editor, and the Editorial board is vital for our organization and practice.

It is an honor for me to be Chair of this Committee and it is a privilege to have news from you. It, indeed, makes me very proud to be an ET Nurse and a member of this Executive Board.

I am looking forward to meeting you at our next WCET™ Conference in Kuala Lumpur and celebrate together our 40th WCET™ birthday!

WCET™ Constitution Advisory Panel ReportKaren Bruton, RN BScN MCISc-WH CETN(c), Canada, Chairperson

The WCET™ Constitution is an effective and necessary governing document for running our organisation. As the WCET™ is registered as a charity and undertakes to provide services in communities, having a constitution is a legal requirement. The WCET™ constitution is also a way of ensuring that our public and funding bodies feel confident that the association is being run properly and is financially accountable.

At the 2016 WCET™ Congress in Cape Town, South Africa the membership approved many updated changes to the WCET™ Constitution. Currently, the Constitutional Advisory Panel has reviewed the Constitution and came to the consensus that there was no needed changes at this time. Please remember that items 1, 2 and 14 in the WCET™ Constitution cannot be changed as the wording is required by the Charites Commission.

We then reached out electronically via email to all WCET™ members to review and come forward with any proposed changes. The WCET™ Constitutional Advisory Panel sent an email to all WCET™ members asking for changes to the current constitution on December 6, 2016. Reminders were sent to the membership asking for their input. As of the deadline February 1, 2017 neither the WCET™ Constitutional Advisory Panel; WCET™ Director of Administration Jennifer Bank or Board Members have received any emails, comments or directions from members for potential changes.

The WCET ™ Constitutional Advisory Panel would like to say thank you to all those that took time out to review the WCET™ Constitution. For those that would like to review the current WCET™ Constitution please view the hyperlink below.

https://wocet.memberclicks.net/assets/AboutUs/2016wcet%20constitution_final.pdf


Members of the Constitution Advisory Panel, beside the Chairperson

– Kathy Porras, RN MSN APRN-BC CWON-AP CCCN, USA

– Susan Dunne, RN STN Med, Australia

– Hiske Smart, Kingdom of Bahrain

Wenzhou ETNEP ET School PR ChinaAihua Chen Second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

In the lovely golden autumn, Wenzhou ETNEP ushered in her eighth seasons of students. On September 20th, 2016, the school held a grand open ceremony in the conference room of the Wenzhou Medical University School of Nursing to welcome the 24 students from all over the nation. Some of the students were from the northern China, such as Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu; while the others were from the south, including Guangdong, Shanghai. This season, the school has a male student.

At present, China has 12 ETNEP and REP, with over 1500 ET nurses trained. Wenzhou ET school as China’s fifth ETNEP has trained 145 students, accounting for 10% of the total. School upholds the concepts of “Let each wound get healed here” and “Make every ostomate a happy life”, by running each season meticulously.

Wenzhou ET School requires students to have both solid theoretical foundation and leading knowledge structure. The school set up a series of courses, including stoma care\stoma complication prevention and management\incontinence \incontinence associated dermatitis, etc. It has been 8 weeks into the season of the program, during which the school invited professional ET nurses from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, as well as international experts from the US and Canada to train students in the theoretical lectures.

Wenzhou ET School values practical training greatly, which is believed to be the basic guarantee for ET’s professional improvement. The school cooperates with many large hospitals, such as the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, the First and Second & Saoyifu Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, etc., in both Wenzhou and Hangzhou on the clinical internship program. Each participant rotates a hospital every week, so that the trainees will be exposed to all types of cases and learned the merits of each trainer. During the internship, each student must complete a product collection manual (stoma, wound, incontinence), a case study and a research project.

The school explores various forms of learning to improve the effectiveness of training. From professional theoretical lectures and workshops to product testing, from animal experiments to simulations, students are able to experience a variety of clinical scenarios and understand different characteristics of products. At the same time, students are able to pay more attention to enhance their professional capabilities, such as nurse-patient relation building, academic research and thesis writing abilities.


温州ET学校第八期学习班报道

陈爱华温州医科大学附属第二医院

金秋九月，秋风送爽，在这么个美丽的季节里，温州国际造口治疗师学校又迎来了她第八期学习班的学员们，并于9月20日上午在温州医科大学护理学院会议室举行了隆重的开班典礼。本期学习班共招收来自全国各省市的24名学员参加学习，他们有来自北方的吉林、黑龙江、甘肃省，也有南方广东省，上海市；其中还有1位男生学员。

目前中国有12所ET学校，共有ET护士1500名左右。温州ET学校作为中国第五所学校培养了145名学员，占了总数的10%。学校秉持“让每一个伤口在这里愈合”“让每一位造口患者快乐生活”的培养教育理念，精心办好每一期学习班。

温州国际造口治疗师学校要求学生要有扎实的理论功底，还要有紧跟前沿的知识结构。开设造口护理、造口并发症的预防和处理、急慢性伤口的处理、糖尿病足的预防、失禁及相关皮炎的处理等课程。经过8周的时间，已经完成了理论授课部分，期间不仅邀请到了中国大陆及台湾和香港等地资深的ET、专家，同时也邀请到了美国、加拿大等国外专家给学员授课。

温州国际造口治疗师学校十分重视实训教学，将它看作是造口治疗师能力水平提升的根本保证。现在开始了各大基地医院的临床实习，由温州和杭州两地三甲医院组成。如温州医科大学附属二院，温州医科大学附属一院，温州市中心医院，浙江大学附属一医，浙江大学附属二医，浙江大学附属邵逸夫医院，浙江省肿瘤医院等。每位学员每周轮转一个医院，让学员尽量多地接触不同类型的病例，吸取每位老师的优点。实习期间每位学员必须完成产品收集册（造口、伤口、失禁个一份）、个案论文和课题研究各一个。

学校探索多种学习形式，提高学校实效。不仅有老师讲座还有工作坊和产品试验等，设置动物实验和模拟实验环节；让学员体会各种临床上的情景模拟，体会各种产品的特性和差异性；注重专业能力方面的培养，如护患沟通技巧、讲课技能，科研设计及论文写作等。

Some photos of 8th Course of Wenzhou ETNEP PRC

Ms. Louise Forest-Lalande from Canada attending the opening ceremony and gave lectures to the students


Ms. Xiaorong Chen (ET) from Taiwan and Mr. Peng CH from HK gave lectures.

Ms. Qixia Jiang (ET) from China giving lectures. Mr. Lincai (Doctor) gave lectures

Ms. Gao from HK giving lectures and doing dressing experiment with students.

Ms. Elizabeth A. Ayello giving lectures at school and a nursing forum of Second hospital affiliated of Wenzhou MU


Students visiting a wound dressing factory Students taking an exam

Students taking clinical practice in separate hospitals.

Students having fun in the weekend.


World Ostomy Awareness Day Celebration in Sri LankaGeethani Samaraweera Secretary – ET Assocation of Sri Lanka

Our banner for this event

The Ostomy Association of Sri Lanka together with Enterostomal Therapy (ET) Nurses Association organized the world Ostomy Day Celebration on 8th October 2016. Our main objective of this programme was to create awareness of patients, give opportunity to share their experiences and having pleasurable time for them.

This Celebration was conducted at naval hospital premises with around 300 participants. Ostomates, and related professionals who were consultant GU and GI surgeons, pediatric surgeons, Nursing officers who are caring for ostomates and palliative care team gathered to celebrate this wonderful event under the theme of “Feel the difference”.

After the ceremonial beginning the following events were conducted by us. Participants lighted the traditional oil lamp. We spent 2 minutes of silence to commemorate past ostomates and those who sacrificed their life to care for ostomates.

Events: • Introduction of the ostomy day

• An Election for new Officers. President – Dr. Wasantha Wijenayake, Secretary – Ms. Enoka Wijerathne and treasurer – Ms. Susantha Pathirana

• Appreciation of past delegates for ostomy care in Sri Lanka Advisor and initiator of the Ostomy association- Prof. K.I Deen, Past President of Ostomy Association- Dr. Lalantha Amarasinghe Past President of ET association - Mr. Udena A. Kumara.


• Psychological lecture – conducted by Dr. Samadi Rajapaksha

• Fashion show- Living with a stoma

After those activities experienced ostomates shared their knowledge among us also an expertise of caring ostomates share their ideas and experiences.

Sample displayed by sponsors and provided souvenirs and gifts for participants. Ostomated treated with traditional music events and western music.

All of them have enjoyed and had their lunch. All participants were leaving the remembrance with spend a pleasant day.

Helping hands for organising and conducting this ceremony

Attendees of the event


Fashion show - Living with Ostomy

Ostomy day celebration cake cutting by former President of Ostomy Association -

Dr. Lalantha Amarasinghe

Lightening the oil lamp by Secretary Enterostomal Therapy Nurses association

Product display and Demonstration


SingHealth Stop Pressure Injury Day 2016Ong Choo Eng, Stoma Care Nurse, Singapore WCET™ ID, Dr Juriyah and Dr Sivagame

Pressure injuries are adverse events that may impact significantly on the length of stay in health services, the cost of care, health outcomes and the comfort and quality of life of the affected individuals and have even been identified as a cause of death. Research suggests that pressure injuries are a major contributor to the care needs of patients within healthcare facilities. However 80-95% of pressure injuries are preventable. Internationally, efforts to prevent pressure injuries began in early 1980s with the formation of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) and subsequent adaptation of the model by The European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel in 1996. The ‘STOP Pressure Injury Day’, a global event organized by healthcare professionals to create awareness of pressure injuries prevention and management, is held annually. The World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day was celebrated on 17th November, 2016.

WPIPD 2016 logo

This year, in our institutional efforts to manage pressure injuries, SingHealth had organized an inaugural ‘Stop Pressure Injury Day’ on 2nd Nov 2016. A first in South East Asia, the SingHealth Wound Management Workgroup and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOC nurse) organized this event with more than 300 SingHealth Nurses in attendance. Activities included a keynote lecture on “Advancing International Consensus for Prevention & Management of Pressure Injuries” addressed by Prof Keryln Carville and presentation of a local research study, “A Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Incremental Effectiveness of Prophylactic Dressing and Fatty Acids Oil in the Prevention of Pressure Ulcers” by Nurse Clinician (WOC nurse) Ms Chang Yee Yee.

The SingHealth WOC nurse graduates and Singapore General Hospital Wound Care Team also organized booths on prevention and management strategies of pressure injuries. These interacting booths were well-received by the attendees who enjoyed the games and quizzes relating to pressure injuries. Additionally, the event was also supported by 16 product companies with booths to educate participants on wound care products and management.

SingHealth Pressure Injury Prevention Day team


SingHealth WOC nurse graduates and Singapore General Hospital Wound Care Team in action

After the morning activities, the event successfully ended with the WOC nurses conducting a walkabout afternoon tour to bring forth strategies promoting pressure injuries prevention and management among the nurses in the wards entertaining them with quizzes and prizes as well.

The SingHealth Wound Management Workgroup with the support of SingHealth institutions aims to hold this event yearly!

Congratulations to Mary GloecknerMary Gloeckner, WOC Nurse from Illinois - USA

I am celebrating being a WOC Nurse for 40 years!!! I was also honored to be named WOC Nurse of the Year by the UOAA in Montreal in June 2016!!


Other coming Education Events7th APETNA – 3rd JEIM – 3rd ISM, 14-16 April 2017Bogor City, Indonesia

I am an ET nurse from Indonesia and currently the member of scientific committee of the 7th APETNA conference in Indonesia this year.

At the moment, February 2017, I can tell that our preparation of the conference is progressing positively as every committee member works their tasks optimally.

The scientific committee has finished reviewing abstracts and start to organize the conference proceeding. We hope to meet in there.

Ahmad Hasyim W, M.Kep, MN ET nurse Diabetes educator Pedis Care center

Lecturer Brawijaya University, School of Nursing Head of nursing commitee Brawijaya University Hospital Vice head on research and Information System Division Indonesian National Nurses Association - Malang Region

More information on: https://apetna2017.com/index.php#price


Next International Council of Nurse Congress, 27 May-1 June 2017Barcelona, Spain

More information on: http://www.icnbarcelona2017.com/en/

We look forward to welcoming you to the 13th Conference of the European Council of Enterostomal Therapists on 18-21 June 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Brandenburg gate (Brandenburger Tor), one of the famoust landmarks of Berlin

Next ECET Conference, 18-21 June 2017Estrel Berlin, Berlin - Germany


The theme of the ECET 2017 conference is:

Building bridges – from west to east, from south to north Ostomy – Continence – Wounds

The preliminary programme is now available online here: http://ecet2017.org/programme/

Conference languages: Official languages will be English, German and two other languages depending on participants’ origin.

Social Programme: On 18 June after the opening session, the ECET hosts a welcome reception in the exhibition area for all participants and exhibitors. It is great opportunity to meet old and new colleagues, while sharing drinks and finger food. The welcome reception is included in the registration fee.

On 20 June, the ECET hosts a conference dinner for all registered participants. It will be held at the Loewe Saal in the centre of Berlin. It will be an evening of good food and wine and the chance to mingle with all the other conference participants. The dinner needs to be booked separately through the online registration.

Registration fees: From 16 MarchMember € 535.50 incl. VATNon-member € 690.20 incl. VATStudents € 178.50 incl. VATOne day reg. € 345.10 incl. VAT

You can find more information about the conference on the website: www.ecet2017.org.

We look forward to welcoming you in Berlin!

Kind regards from the Executive Board of ECET

Gabriele Kroboth, PresidentWerner Droste, Vice-PresidentRenata Batas, PR OfficerGerlinde M. Wiesinger, Treasurer

More information on : http://www.sobest.com.br/evento/cbe17

Next SOBEST Conference, 12-15 November 2017Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil


WCET™ BullETin is a copyright publication of the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists (WCET™)

WCET™ BullETin Editor: Laurent Chabal, Publications and Communications Chairperson, Switzerland

WCET™ BullETin Assistant Editors: Elizabeth A. Ayello, Vice President, WCET™, USA; Susan Stelton, President, WCET™, USA

Greg Paull, WCET™ Publications and Committee Member, Perth, Australia

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the WCET™ BullETin are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the World

Council of Enterostomal Therapists, the BullETin Editor or BullETin Assistant Editors.

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