Estonian Operating Room Nurses Association (EstORNA) national congress date November the 9th, in Tallinn. The main subject was "Patient safety". Lectures on topics of surgical complications, infection control in the operating room, patient hypothermia in operating room. Will be present master thesis results: "The relationships between patient safety culture and perceived organization -based self-esteem among nurses : an examination based on operating centres of three hospitals". Gives an overview of the HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy) procedure. We will plan to discuss about EstORNA issues and continue our tradition view the pictures different hospitals of operating theatre.

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IPNA national congress date September the 10th, in Tel Aviv. The main subject will be "Risk management, Ethics and Esthetic in the Operating Room". We will have a specialists panel that will discussed 5 different mistakes or near mistakes that happened in different OR's in Israel

In the first time we will giive , scholarship to three OR nurses who are learning clinical education courses.

The plans for 2013 are to have nurses changing between OR'S, to continue the association colaboration with competencies, to have at least three educational conferences etc.

We are looking for agreement with the government to recognize the OR Nurses as radiation workers with all the privileges..

Activities 2012 :
Translating EORNA core curriculum to Hebrew
Celebrating the nursing day
Discussing EORNA issues in national board meetings

On the 31th May and 1th June we celebrated our Annual VVOV Congress in Blankenberge Belgium.

There were about 700 delegates over the 2 days. We were also happy to hoste 60 companies during our VVOVcongress and made already promotion for the 7th EORNACongress in Rome in 2015

We create a poster for this opportunity and exposed this on our VVOV stand and on the walls to announce already the next EORNAcongress.
We encouraged also our members to prepare a presentation for the next EORNACongress and will try as association to make it attractive to participate in this project.

There were also workshop :
The main program was devided in 4 fields : security, innovations, management, power of guidance
The hot topics for the moment are accreditation for hospitals .
There was a representant of the ministery of health; Margaretha Haelterman who spoke about the evaluation of the use of the Surgical Safety Check List in hospitals and the score of good practice during sign in, time out and sign out. For the first field she could remarke a 70% of good practice by fiiling this in,for the time out it was 38% and the sign out field had the lowest score. So we have to give more attention to this part of the SSCL.
In line with the Key Skill Management program we held a workshop on preceptorship and mentorship : it was very well appriciated by the attendees.

We desiminate EORNA flyers to promote EORNA as EU association.

The Belgian Professor Marleen Temmerman went the director of the WHO out of 250 candidates : we think that it is a good choise because she has a large background as gynecologist and experience in Africa with HIV studies during several years. Her mission : reducing motherdead and childdead around the world, increase trearthment of HIV patients and make healthcare more accesssible for poor people.

They considered her as a suitable person for this job ; being a senator of such a complex political country she could be the right person to be a mediator global ....Succes.

Brigitte Van De Walle & Maria Loureiro

Comparative overview of 34 European countries provides valuable insights into a healthcare system under pressure and illustrates current and future challenges

Brussels (03 May 2012) - The European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) has published a new country-by-country report on the impact of the economic crisis on nurses and nursing in Europe. The report illustrates the current and future challenges facing the nursing profession, and offers a view of the specific dynamics in each country, as well as a tool to take action and tackle these challenges.

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European OR Nurses Accreditation Council for Education now following WHO regional health map

April 25 2012 – At their 6th Annual Conference entitled ‘Sailing to the Future’ (26th- 29th April 2012) in Lisbon today, the European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA) highlighted the latest progress in the harmonisation of education standards for operating room (OR) nurses in Europe and beyond.

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In french : L’EORNA, fer de lance du mouvement d'harmonisation des normes de formation des infirmières au-delà des frontières européennes

In german : EORNA harmonisiert Standards für Krankenpflegeausbildung über die Grenzen Europa hinaus

In spanish : EORNA encabeza la armonización de estándares de formación en enfermería más allá de Europa

The global medical crises of dangerous metal-on-metal hip implants and other defective medical devices has prompted the European Union to push for patient and implant registries.

A European Parliament committee unanimously passed a resolution at the end of April that would create registries to track patients who receive implants and methods to trace the devices themselves, Fierce Medical Devices reports.

“It is essential to … strengthen surveillance and safety controls and placing on the market requirements,” the committee stated.


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We have celebrated the nursing day on 15.02.2012. All hospitals received the Eorna poster and the celebration in many hospitals was succesfull.

The Forna annual meeting will take place on october 10 -11, 2012 in Turku. Main topics will concentrate on practiccal aspects of every day nursing.

The Norna 2014 congress will take place in Helsinki, Finland. The preparation work has started.