IFPN NewsletterIssue 12March 2007 Click here for PDF version2007-2008 Executive Board:President: James Harrison
JHarrison@stlukes.com.au
Vice President: Betty Shultz
ShultzDB@aol.com
Secretary: Sheila Allen
allensl@hughes.net
Treasurer: Lesley Fudge
lesleyfudge@mac.com
Board Members:
Margaret Farley rfarley@accesscom.ca
Kim Hepper hepperkim@hotmail.com
Melanie van Limborgh Melanie.vanlimborg@afpp.org.uk
Benefits of IFPN membership:Only perioperative affiliate to ICN with ongoing communications
E-newsletter to update activities
Access to online International Journal of Perioperative Practice
Educational conferences [dates if possible]
Connection to global perioperative colleagues
Website: www.ifpn.org.uk
IFPN EXECUTIVE IN FOCUSMelanie van LimborghMelanie is a Registered Nurse and has worked predominantly in the Perioperative environment throughout her career. She has experience ranging from clinical and senior management roles in Operating Department Management, Sterile Supply and Decontamination, ambulatory care, surgery and anaesthetics, pain management and resuscitation. She is currently Assistant Director of Nursing at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, holding responsibility for several strategic health and nursing projects as well as providing leadership to the nursing establishment.
Melanie completed a Masters degree in Healthcare Management in 2000 and was awarded a bursary to attend the European Health Leadership Programme at the European Management University, INSEAD, in Paris during 2005.
Melanie has served on the Perioperative Nurses Forum of the Royal College of Nursing and in October 2005 Melanie completed a three and a half year elected term as Chairman of the National Association of Theatre Nurses, based in Harrogate, which became the Association for Perioperative Practice under her management.
She has presented in the United Kingdom and internationally on her key areas of and is now an Executive board member for the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses charged with the European direction for the federation with the board.
Celebrate International Nursing Day12th May 2007Positive practice environments: Quality workplaces = quality patient careThe goal of ICNs call for positive practice environments is to improve the quality of health services through health care work environments that support performance excellence, declared Hiroko Minami, President of ICN. We believe patients and the public have the right to the highest performance from nurses and other health care professionals. This can only be achieved in a workplace that enables and sustains a motivated, well prepared workforce.
ICN has brought this issue to light on the occasion of International Nurses Day, with the publication of an information and action toolkit entitled, Quality workplaces=quality patient care.
The toolkit has been distributed to all ICN member associations and to nursing representatives worldwide. It can be accessed online at www.icn.indkit.htm.
World Health Organisation ( WHO)
The Second Global Challenge for the World Patient Safety Alliance is focused on Safe Surgery saves Lives, and will work intensively for the next year, to seek out the evidence for a raft of minimum standards which are applicable to every country in the world. This group was developed in 2007 and comprises many surgeons from around the globe, a few anaesthetists, a few microbiologists, some professionals from patient safety organisations, a lay member, and perioperative nursing has its voice there too!
The key tasks of the Second Challenge group is to look at evidence in different areas
particularly:
Clean surgery
Safe Anaesthesia
Trained Providers ( or safe operators)
Surgical Resources
Monitoring and Quality Assurance mechanisms
From the evidence in each of these areas, the aim is to define a core set of standards which can be applied universally to improve surgical outcomes for patients regardless of circumstance or environment. The goal is not to set the bar so low that all countries can easily achieve, but rather to provide tools and standards that represent a challenge to improve surgical safety .
International Council of Nurses ( ICN)The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) is a partnership with WHO which was launched as part of the 59th WHA activities in May 2006. Its main thrust is to carry forward the recommendations of the World Health Report 2006 on human resources for health (HRH). The Report concluded that the shortage of health workers was critical in 57 countries, 36 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, and that 4 million additional health workers were needed worldwide 1 million for Africa alone to alleviate the current crisis. GHWA was launched to help achieve this goal.
The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) Version 1.0 was successfully launched in May 2005. To be relevant, ICNP® needs to be continuously reviewed and new tools developed.
ICNP® catalogues are ICNP® subsets for health conditions, practice specialties, care settings, or nursing phenomena, such a pain or adherence. Catalogues fill a practical need in building health information systems with all the benefits of being part of a unified nursing language system. . The documentation of nursing care using ICNP® will enhance safety and quality of care and will provide systematic, retrievable data about healthcare worldwide. Two catalogues are currently nearing completion:
? Partnering with Clients and Families to Promote Adherence to Treatment
? Palliative Nursing Care
Successful catalogue development requires expert input, therefore, we are seeking expert nurse reviewers for the following topics for 2007-2009:
? Palliative Nursing Care
? Ambulatory Cancer Care in the Clinic
? HIV AIDS Home Care
? Pain Management
? Adolescent Mental Health
Please contact the ICNP® Programme Director, Amy Coenen, at coenena@uwm.edu for further information and to forward names and e-mail addresses for reviewers.
CNR Member CountriesMember countries represent perioperative nurses from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States,. Papua New Guinea is a pre-member.
Membership in IFPN is open to all national perioperative nursing organisations, or regional organisations, who wish to have a voice in the greater arena of international perioperative nursing.
CNR ASSISTANCEIt is common for CNR members or their branches to assist in the monetary support of poorly resourced countries and we recognise NORNA - Northern Operating Room Nurses of Alberta - a district of ORNAA (Operating Room Nursing of Alberta Association) for their generous donation for the provision of guidelines for a poorly resourced country.
We would ask all levels of our CNR ,state , regional and national, to consider donating to IFPN in whatever amount could be spared to assist your less fortunate perioperative colleagues.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERIOPERATIVE CAREVolume 2 now available for download.
Contents:
Perioperative organisation conference dates
Articles:
Infection Control Circle of Safety
Safe Surgery Saves Lives
The Precipice of change for advancing practice in New Zealand
Embarking on inter-global perioperative research
Perioperative Certification for registrants at World Conference
Kenyan Perioperative Conference Report
Perioperative Nursing: the Philippines vs. USA
Please look to contribute to The Final Count
Download to share with friends! www.ifpn.org.uk
Contact: Kathryn Schroeter Editor kschroet@execpc.com
IFPN STANDARDS & GUIDELINESWe thank the following sponsors for their generous support of developing international perioperative guidelines.
Vernon Carus
Molnlycke
ERBE
Kimberly-Clark Australia
The Clinical services Journal
Guidelines can be downloaded from the IFPN website.
Calender of Events 2007ORNAC Conference 21-23 April 2007
Victoria, BC
PNC of NZNO 30 Aug 1st Sept 2007
Dunedin, NZ
World Conference 1-4th October 2007
Seoul, Korea
AfPP Congress 9th October
Harrogate, UK
AORN 30th march 3rd April 2008 Anaheim
ACORN May 2008
Surfers Paradise,QLD
Korean Association of Operating Room Nurses (KAORN)The Korean Association of Operating Room Nurses (KAORN), was established in 1987 and joined IFPN as a full Council of Nursing Representative in 2007. KAORN will be represented by their current President, Kesook Yoon, and we extend a heartfelt welcome to all Korean perioperative nurses into the world-wide perioperative family.
KAORN has endlessly shown a colourful and vivacious service to its members by providing educational activities such as:
an annual congress usually held in February in Seoul;
7-8 continuing educational sessions per year with an audience of at least 500 members per session;
a 2 day Perioperative Nurse Managers Workshop;
a 3 day Senior Nurses Workshop;
a Perioperative Nursing Seminar
publication of a Perioperative Nursing Journal; and
an Overseas Program for Perioperative Nurse Managers.
Current perioperative issues facing Korean perioperative nurses include :
Perioperative APN/CNS Disruptive behaviour in the OR
Standardization of Perioperative Nursing Practice Standardization of Perioperative Nursing Documentation
Event-related sterility Adequate OR staffing levels
Use of transfer forceps Orientation programs for new nurses
Patient safety Clinical ladder system
Evidence-Based nursing practice Patient centred perioperative nursing care
The 2007 World Conference on Surgical Patient Care is being hosted by KAORN and their members wish to extend the hospitality of their beautiful country to all attendees.
2007 World Conference of Surgical Patient Care
Deadline for submissions for posters, June 15 2007.
http://www.aorn.org/education/abstract/call_for.asp
Please send your articles, press releases, and web links for future newsletters via e-mail to newsletter editor: Kim Hepper hepperkim@hotmail.com