ROPSF trustees are working with stoma care nurse from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children to offer paediatric stoma care training to Romanian paediatric nurses at the three main children’s hospitals in Romania. A need was identified in this specialist area of care and it is expected that up to twelve nurses will participate in this innovative training project.

To back-up the stoma care theory selected nurses will be invited later in the year to the UK to observe paediatric nursing skills in several major UK children’s hospitals. This project has also been endorsed by the Romanian Order of Nursing as a most beneficial project.

Since its inception in 1995 UK stoma care nurses have undertaken numerous stoma care training courses and in 2012 a group of eleven Romanian nurses underwent an advanced course: ‘Train the Trainer’. Following evaluation the conclusion was that this course proved to be highly successful with many of the nurses on-training their colleagues.

All the UK training team offer their services in a voluntary basis.