IPNA - the Israeli Perioperative Nurse Association is the biggest one in Israel.
This year we are celebrating 20 years for IPNA. Our Board members decided to invite to our national conference the association established nurses, to honor and admire them for their courage, open minded and insistence that lead us to the place and position we are staying now.

Our national conference will take place at the 10th of Jun in the city of Haifa. The main subject this year is to Renew, Surprise and Succeed in the Perioperative filed. This year representatives of our association were members in the official nurse administration committee. The purpose was, advertising for the first time, roles for OR nurse duties in the perioperative era. The roles were published at the end of February 2009.

We are also counseling them for the surgical counting process. Our suggestion was to make review of the recommended practice for surgical counting, due to the results of our association research.
Over the year we had three educational meetings organized by OR's departments in 3 different hospitals all over the country. In the meetings we deal with clinical procedures and issues.

In the 4th of May we had election for the Chairman and deputies of IPNA. Yael Edry was elected as chairman for more 4 years. Ahuva Friedman and Edna Lavi elected as deputies.

With an eye-catching campaign EDANA draws the attention to the European Standard EN 13795 and the hygienic and numerous other benefits that nonwovens offer in the operating theatre. By using a refreshingly innovative comic book style in a European-wide poster campaign that is supported by informative flyers and an educational micro site, operating room nurses are profiled as heroes fighting an endless fight against possible infections for the better of patients and themselves. The benefits and backgrounders are explained in a fun and appealing way using bite-sized chunks of focused information. But what better way to learn more than to Join the Fight… Click here please

Brussels (Belgium), April 6, 2009 - Earlier today, Ansell Healthcare, the global leader in healthcare barrier protective solutions, has announced it has taken a further step in supporting the global healthcare professionals community in the area of continued education.

After receiving earlier confirmation of acceptance by its US counterpart (AORN), the AnsellCares® educational courses have now also received confirmation of acceptance by the European Operating Room Nurses Association. Focusing on infection control, allergy prevention, barrier protection and nursing procedures, the AnsellCares® courses perfectly link into the requirements of continued education for healthcare workers around the world. The Ansell educational courses are actually the first courses offered under the newly launched EORNA Accreditation Council for Education (ACE), and will be made accessible via a web-based portal under the EORNA Academy header.

The AnsellCares® self-study courses will initially be made available via the EORNA website. EORNA members will be offered logging in to EORNA Academy section of the website, and make their choice on the "offering" page. AnsellCares course content can then be accessed and downloaded. Tests will taken online, delivering final results and accreditation points through a EORNA ACE certificate.

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Brussels, 9 march 2009
EORNA – the European Operating Room Nurses Organisation – has launched its Accreditation Council for Education (ACE). With ACE, EORNA wants to improve and harmonize the quality of surgical care in Europe. The new ACE is the first European accreditation system for operating room nurses. ACE represents a unique initiative for the professional development of nursing and care in general.

The new ACE will improve the quality and accessibility of continuing education and professional development for nursing and healthcare professionals in Europe. EORNA ACE sets quality standards for distance learning courses and educational events as scientific meetings, conferences, workshops or symposia. Teaching institutes will be able to rely on the ACE quality label and integrate approved courses in their learning plans, thus guaranteeing the latest and accurate information. ACE will also be available to national nursing associations throughout Europe.

After receiving the stamp “EORNA ACE APPROVED”, educational courses or events will be able to advertise the label on all materials associated with the course or event. Participating nurses will be able to collect credits points and build their personal continued education program. The review process by the EORNA ACE Board will assure the quality standards of all courses or events.
The system also allows easy exchange of credits between European countries and comparable systems outside Europe, thus improving mobility in the healthcare sector.

EORNA’s new ACE will be implemented at its upcoming international Congress “Professional Development – Bridging Perioperative Care”, taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 17 – 19 April 2009.

“Educational and training programmes in the nursing sector need alignment and development on a European level. EORNA achieved 1997 to present a curriculum of a minimum of education in Operating room and anaesthetic nursing and care. ACE represents a major step towards achieving a harmonized high-level perioperative patient care in Europe,” confirms EORNA President Irini Antoniadou.

Next to evaluating Operating Theatre related initiatives, the ACE will also act as accreditation committee for other healthcare associations and associations representing expert areas including emergency, critical, paediatric, and neonatal care nursing.

The new ACE has been created with the support of Ansell Healthcare, infection prevention specialist and global leader in hand protection solutions for healthcare practitioner and patients.


More information about EORNA:
Irini Antoniadou : EORNA President
E-mail: president@eorna.eu

More information about the EORNA Congress : www.eornacongress.eu

In Portugal, the European Perioperative Nursing Day has been celebrate in the previous day, because it was Saturday and so most easy to do a exhibition. We have made a “street activity”, building an OR in a central square in Lisbon and Porto.
The objectives of these activities were divided in two categories: for children and for adults.

• For children’s, with an activity like a game, we expected to provide some tools to approach the OR and put away the fears related the surgical procedures.

• To adults we ask and inform about their rights to participate in all the surgical process, asking to mark the right site of the surgery and trying to empower people regarding OR care and self-security.

We distribute some flyers explaining the WHO concern with “SAFE SURGERY SAVES LIVES” and explaining the recommended practice about “wrong site”.
In Porto we had more or less 200 visitors and in Lisbon about 300 visitors.
We have a guest book with very positive comments about the initiative.
The Portuguese television has been there and reported the activities in the main journal at lunch and dinnertime. Several newspapers made a notice regarding the celebration and we have been present in a TV program. It was been a great commemoration with a lot of media impact.
For AESOP : M.J. Dias Pinheiro / M. Valente – Lisboa 2009

AICO have had his National Congress in Marina di Massa Carrara from March 15th to 17th and AICO celebrated its birthday. AICO is 20 years old!!!
The theme of the Congress was Nursing care in O.R.. The presentations were about communication, organization, management, EBN and clinic application. The participant’s evaluation of the congress confirmed high level of satisfaction.
The Annual General Meeting took place at the congress
The conference was well attended of about 1100 people and at this meeting AICO has promoted EORNA congress in Copenhagen : a lot of surgical nurses are interested to go to Denmark.
Our next National Congress will take place in the autumn 2010 in Turin.

Gennaro Salerno
AICO

This year has ISORNA organised two meetings. The first one was on the European preoperative day the main topic was “Hand hygiene in operation” and we also had a lecture about “How to enjoy your live” after the lectures we had an excellent dinner. It was a very good meeting, and well attended by ISORNA members.
The second meeting was our annual board meeting and annual conference. We have two new board members and we have elected new president in ISORNA board, her name is Svanhildur Jónsdóttir. The main topic on the conference was “Surgical site infection”. The conference was well attended or about 70 people. At these meetings we have promoted EORNA congress in Copenhagen, and there is a lot of surgical nurses that are interested to go to the conference.

Best regards
Helga and Áshildur

We had our national congress at the same time as the nordic contries ( NORNA ) congress this year in Stavanger. There was many interesting lectures from all the nordic contries participating. The national board in NAORN has change this year. 6 of 8 persons out and 6 new persons in. We also have a new president and her name is Turid Petlund from Oslo. Our next national congress will take place in autumn 2009, after the EORNA Congress in Denmark.

30.Sept.2008

Grethe Daavoy and Sol E. Mittet Toft
NAORN

News from SEORNA

The Autumn Congress took place at Arlanda Conference and Business Center at Arlanda Airport outside Stockholm (the capital). The theme for the congress was “Lust and Learning Creates Safety”. It was the 2nd time that SEORNA used this venue as congress venue. We had 280 participants and 60 companies in the exhibition area! There were 17 presentations on various subjects. The industries had work-shops during these two days (7). At the time for the congress we launched the Mölnlycke Health Care Experience Point The participant’s evaluation of the congress confirmed – high level of satisfaction.

The Perioperative Nurses Day (see article) was celebrated on Friday the 15th of February. Different activities took place at the hospitals and at the district meetings in the whole country. The OR Nurses in the city Falun, in the area of Dalarna, had a lot of activities– they were in the high school to inform pupils about the profession of OR Nursing, in the university informing students about the nursing programme, two exhibitions in the hospital with the EORNA poster on show and one other poster with an OR Nurse working, it was also an “Open house” at the OR Dept, with many visits from health care personnel who work in the hospital. A film about the OR Nurse profession is also in preparation.

The Spring Congress, 24-25 April, took place at “Piperska muren” an old mansion in the middle of Stockholm and the theme was Hygiene, the presentations were about infection-control, basic hygiene rules for health care personnel, the global infections – pandemic. The Annual General Meeting took place at the congress.

An OR Nurse Gudrun Rudolfsson presented her doctoral thesis the 15th December in Åbo Akademi, Vaasa, Finland. Prof K Eriksson was her advisor.

The journal of OR Nurses “Uppdukat” is produced 4 times a year, this contains news and scientific articles. All the OR Nurse students have this free of charge while they are studying in the programme at the universities.

In our organisation, from this year, we have a committee for scientific/research and a committee for quality improvement. Members in the committees are OR Nurses principally.


Annica Sandelin
SEORNA
2008-05-04

Two congresses will soon take place in France.
First of all, the UNAIBODE twenty fifth congress 2008, from May 21th to 23th, in Clermont-Ferrand, “the Auvergne volcanoes’capital”. We will speak about technological stakes, economical realities, and ecological ways of thinking.
Secondly, we are delighted to invite you to the ninth EFORT congress 2008 in Nice, France, from May 29th to June 1st. For the first time, a special nurses’ session will be organized. Obviously, EORNA board is invited, and in the future, will be EFORT favourite partner. Don’t hesitate, and if you want to come, share experience, and benefit of the “French Riviera”, go on website www.efort.org to registrate.