EORNA is the representative organisation for Operating Room Nurses Associations in Europe. Its governing body is the EORNA Board in which the OR nurse associations in each member country have voting rights.

The aim of the EORNA ACE is the harmonization and improvement of the quality of surgical care in Europe. In the field of continuing education and professional development, the EORNA ACE will serve this aim by improving quality of and accessibility to CME / CPD (continuing medical education / continuing professional development) for the nursing and healthcare professionals in Europe.

The practical instrument to improve the quality of continuing education and professional development in Europe will be the facilitation of transfer of CME / CPD credits obtained by individual professionals in educational activities that meet common quality requirements:

• between European countries

• between different professionals

• in case of migration of a nursing and healthcare professional within Europe

• between the European credit system and comparable systems outside Europe.

In order to make exchange of credits possible the ECMEC system was introduced, (equating one hour to one credit) to be used for the international awarding of CME / CPD credits. National systems may also use this unit or establish a fixed exchange rate with the ECMEC.

In order to facilitate and ease the processing of your request for European accreditation EORNA ACE, we would like to advise you to read carefully this overview of EORNA ACE and this Reference guide which should answer any queries you might have.

The guide is divided into 3 sections:
i) The Application form - giving you more information (click here)
ii) A short description of the EORNA ACE (click here), followed by a glossary (click here)
iii) A review of the essential documents related to an application for European Accreditation (click here).

• Educational event: defined as the provision of a scientific meeting, conference, course, workshop or satellite symposium of no more than 40 hours educational study.

• Distance learning educational programme: defined as education provided remotely using published materials including print, Web or CD-Rom resources .

Once submitted the process of EORNA ACE accreditation takes 4-6 weeks.

• If the course is approved by the Accreditation Council, the words "EORNA ACE APPROVED" can be used on all materials associated with the course.

For Educational event or congress
(EORNA ACE for educational event ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FORM)

For e-learning
(Coming soon)

The recognition of EORNA to national associations provides access to:

• European educational standards for practice and educational advice

• Assistance in effective cross-country mobility among European Operating Room nurses

• Objective evaluation of the quality of perioperative nursing and care courses/educational materials across Europe

• An incentive to attract participants from other countries

• Publication of accredited courses/ educational events on the EORNA website.

The EORNA ACE asks a fee for the processing of the applications. This fee is based only on the number of participants and is a sliding scale.

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EORNA ACE executive Committee
To contact EORNA ACE Executive Committee, send a message to eorna.ace@eorna.eu