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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.

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

Le Comité d’accréditation pour l’éducation de l’Association européenne des infirmières de bloc opératoire souhaite intégrer l'enseignement à la cartographie régionale en santé publique de l'OMS

El Consejo Europeo de Acreditación de Enfermería de Quirófano promueve la formación como mapa sanitario regional de la OMS

Accreditation Council for Education fördert Bildung gemäß regionalem Gesundheitsplan der WHO

Date and venue of Next National Conference : 2-4 NOVEMBER 2012 ATHENS

Current President name / change : JOHN KOUTELEKOS

News :
Last November GORNA had the 22nd annual meeting. It was a succesfull meeting in the start of winder and take place in Karpenisi, a beautiful small town at the heart of Greece. We had almost 350 participants from all over the country.
in February we celebrated the day of the perioperative nurse in a beautiful area where we had the opportunity to hear the proffesor Anastasio Stalika in a very interesting lecture on ''positive emotions Myths and Truths''. the same day we made a small presentation of EORNA congress and we draw a trip to Lisbon for one Member of our association.

EORNA Representatives / changes : DIMITRIS POULIS/KOSTAS KARAKOSTAS

Activities :
Last six months we published two issues of scientific journal.
We made a daily scientific meeting in a small town near to Athens.
For next months we have planned three scientific meetings. One in Athens, one in Creta, and one in Thessaloniki.

Current President name / change : Bryndís Ólafsdóttir

The ISORNA had a annual general meeting the 2.nd of March. The main subject of the meeting, except the usual general meeting topics, was to restructure the homepage. It was Svanhildur Jonsdottir, president of ISORNA and Elin Oddsdottir, NORNA board memeber last meeting as ISORNA board members. ISORNA board thanked them both for their contribution of three years. New ISORNA board memebers were elected and they are Hildur Gudmundsdottir and Erla Bjork Birgisdottir.
The University of Iceland in collaboration with Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavík have been the last 2 years running an education for nurses to become OR nurses. These nurses will graduate next June so we will have 10 more OR nurses soon.

EORNA Representatives / changes : Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir / Kristín Thorarinsdottir

Activities :
In the beginning of the year 2011 the focus of ISORNA board memebers were on prepering the 3th NORNA congress which was held in Reykjavik 25th-27th of May. We expected about 280 guests but because of the vulcanic reuption we had in Iceland just before, we got some cancellation and around 260 guests arrived. We were very pleased conserning the circumstances we were dealing with. Due to that our main speaker, the journalist Suzanne Gordon didn´t show up but gave her lecture through Skype.
Our annual autumn congress was held in the beginning of October. It was very well attended and successful.

Our first board meeting for creating the action plan for 2012 was in December 18th 2011. The board meets every six-week. The first meeting for 2012 will be on January the 16th.

We will celebrate the Nursing day in a national conference. All hospitals received the EORNA poster and there will be a celebration in many ORs during the country.

For the first time, in 2011 our government paid the association membership fee for all OR nurses, so we increase the association members almost every OR nurse in Israel is now a IPNA member. It's also helped us to increases the Association budget for 2012.

We are now promoting EORNACongress. IPNA will help the Israeli presenters in EORNACongress, and many of the IPNA board members will attended the Congress.

In February, we will publish IPNA newspaper, in hard copy and digital version.

The association with Industry companies arranging professional meetings for OR's nurses in many fildes, the last one was in 11th of December 2011, and the next will be in 16th of May 2012.

We also have OR's managers and clinical educator forums.

In Jun 2012 there will be a Nursing international Congress in Israel, our association will present tow presentation and tow posters.

Two weeks later we will have our national Congress.

EORNA Representatives / changes : Edry Yael , Friedman Ahuva

Activities :
promoting EORNACongress
celebrating Nursing day
present EORNA in our newspapar
have EORNA link in our website
promoting EORNA activites and projects.

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Launch of IRCAD's brand-new Journal customized for iPads only. A big step in technology to push education forward.

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Yaz Linked to Gallbladder Damage, Woman Files Lawsuit
February 23, 2011, 12:02 pm
According to the Southeast Texas Record, yet another Yaz lawsuit has been filed against Bayer Corporation, the manufacturer of the popular birth control medication, after Lana Speck of Texas experienced stomach pain that resulted in the removal of her gallbladder following use of the medication.
Yaz has repeatedly been linked to a slew of dangerous adverse reactions ranging from cardiovascular side effects including stroke and heart attack to serious gallbladder complications.
Speck filed the latest lawsuit against Bayer Corporation on January 31 in Galveston County, Texas. Her lawsuit alleges that Bayer and other companies failed to warn patients and doctors of the dangers associated with Yaz and Yasmin birth control, despite the company's knowledge of the risks.
Speck initially experienced severe abdominal pain and underwent surgery to remove her gallbladder in 2006.
According to Speck's lawsuit, after her gallbladder was removed, she "was in constant severe chest and upper abdominal pain as a result of her removed gallbladder." The lawsuit also notes that she experienced repeated issues with her digestion, including "diarrhea, indigestion and crippling abdominal pain."

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