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Community: Foundation looks for more ways to support perioperative nurses
Foundation looks for more ways to support perioperative nurses
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he AORN Foundation is working to expand our educational offerings to better meet our mission of improving patient safety by supporting the nurses who make surgery safe. What does this mean to AORN members and perioperative nurses? To start, we are investigating the perioperative landscape to better understand the challenges of continuing education and maintaining professional competency. We heard you when you said facilities are cutting their professional development and travel budgets. We heard you when you said technologies are rapidly changing and the need for unbiased continuing education is growing. That’s why our strategic focus in 2013 will be on improving our professional development programs to help more nurses attend educational conferences and complete certificate programs. We started the year by awarding 150 grants to help alleviate the expense of attending the 60th annual AORN Congress. For those unable to travel, we will be increasing our funding of eCongress grants and other e-learning programs. The eCongress individual grants will cover the full cost of registration to the year-long online program, which offers the most popular education sessions, handouts, and resources from Congress. We will also continue our popular seminar series on topics such as hemostatic agents and wound classification and surgical site infections. The seminar series program is designed to bring education directly to you in a format that meets your educational and practice needs. The full-day sessions begin with a didactic morning segment with contact hours and then transition into hands-on training supported by one of our industry partners. These are just a few of the programs we will be announcing throughout the year to support you and your colleagues. Consider joining others in supporting these and other Foundation programs. The Foundation is a separate entity from AORN, Inc., and thus, member dues do not fund Foundation programs. It is for this reason that we ask members, chapters, state councils, and industry partners to consider giving an annual donation to help grow and sustain our educational programs.
From the Board
Health care: Winds of change The AORN Board of Directors Rosemarie T. Schroeder has focused its operations for the past year on the theme of collaboration. Collaboration with members, headquarters’ staff, regulatory agencies, nursing organizations, various health care disciplines, and legislative representatives on issues affecting OR nursing practice has advanced safer patient care. Applying evidence ratings to Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices has served to enhance our ongoing credibility as an indispensible resource. I look forward to a wave of innovation in the coming year to help ensure that we continue to evolve to meet the needs of future times and members. Stability requires the ballast of our strong heritage but relevance demands that we be nimble in adjusting our sails to direct our course through the changing winds of inevitable health care reform. Get ready… all hands on deck!
Rosemarie T. Schroeder BSN, RN, CNOR AORN Board of Directors
Paula Graling, DNP, RN, CNS, CNOR AORN Foundation President
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-2092(13)00152-X
© AORN, Inc, 2013
March 2013 Vol 97 No 3 • AORN Connections | C11
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he AORN Foundation is working to expand our educational offerings to better meet our mission of improving patient safety by supporting the nurses who make surgery safe. What does this mean to AORN members and perioperative nurses? To start, we are investigating the perioperative landscape to better understand the challenges of continuing education and maintaining professional competency. We heard you when you said facilities are cutting their professional development and travel budgets. We heard you when you said technologies are rapidly changing and the need for unbiased continuing education is growing. That’s why our strategic focus in 2013 will be on improving our professional development programs to help more nurses attend educational conferences and complete certificate programs. We started the year by awarding 150 grants to help alleviate the expense of attending the 60th annual AORN Congress. For those unable to travel, we will be increasing our funding of eCongress grants and other e-learning programs. The eCongress individual grants will cover the full cost of registration to the year-long online program, which offers the most popular education sessions, handouts, and resources from Congress. We will also continue our popular seminar series on topics such as hemostatic agents and wound classification and surgical site infections. The seminar series program is designed to bring education directly to you in a format that meets your educational and practice needs. The full-day sessions begin with a didactic morning segment with contact hours and then transition into hands-on training supported by one of our industry partners. These are just a few of the programs we will be announcing throughout the year to support you and your colleagues. Consider joining others in supporting these and other Foundation programs. The Foundation is a separate entity from AORN, Inc., and thus, member dues do not fund Foundation programs. It is for this reason that we ask members, chapters, state councils, and industry partners to consider giving an annual donation to help grow and sustain our educational programs.
From the Board
Health care: Winds of change The AORN Board of Directors Rosemarie T. Schroeder has focused its operations for the past year on the theme of collaboration. Collaboration with members, headquarters’ staff, regulatory agencies, nursing organizations, various health care disciplines, and legislative representatives on issues affecting OR nursing practice has advanced safer patient care. Applying evidence ratings to Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices has served to enhance our ongoing credibility as an indispensible resource. I look forward to a wave of innovation in the coming year to help ensure that we continue to evolve to meet the needs of future times and members. Stability requires the ballast of our strong heritage but relevance demands that we be nimble in adjusting our sails to direct our course through the changing winds of inevitable health care reform. Get ready… all hands on deck!
Rosemarie T. Schroeder BSN, RN, CNOR AORN Board of Directors
Paula Graling, DNP, RN, CNS, CNOR AORN Foundation President
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-2092(13)00152-X
© AORN, Inc, 2013
March 2013 Vol 97 No 3 • AORN Connections | C11