Calendar and Events

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Perioperative Nurses College 2025 Calendar. Important dates for Perioperative Nurses College members to note.

Date

Item

 

11 February Webinar - Cancelled Virtual
15/16 February National Committee meeting Wellington

25 March

Webinar

Virtual
16 April National Committee Zoom meeting Virtual
24 April Dissector Copy Deadline June Issue
6 May Webinar Virtual
12 May International Nurses Day  
14/15 June National Committee meeting Christchurch
17 June Webinar Virtual
18 July

Call for remits, changes to rules and subjects for discussion,Service to PNC award 

Send to National Secretary
18 July Dissector Copy Deadline August Issue
29 July Webinar Virtual
6 August National Committee Zoom meeting Virtual

1 September

Dissector Copy Deadline

November Issue

9 September Webinar Virtual

19 September

Closing date for awards

periop.awards@gmail.com

17 - 18 September

NZNO conference and AGM

Wellington

14 October Webinar Virtual
18 October  PNC 52nd Annual General meeting Auckland/Virtual
18 November  Webinar Virtual

21 November

Dissector Copy Deadline

February 2026 Issue

2026 Closing date for all other awards periop.awards@gmail.com

Conferences

48th Annual Conference of the Perioperative Nurses College of NZNO 2024

'Embracing the future: Everything counts'

17 - 19 October 2024
Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Conference Registrations now open

PNC Annual General Meeting

18 October 2024, 11.30am

AGM papers are available on the right hand side of this page, you must login as a PNC member to view.

The ACORN 2024 International Conference

28 - 30 November 2024

ATC, Royal Randwick
Sydney 
Australia


Schedule of PNC Conferences

2026 Auckland/Northland

2028 Otago/Southland

2030 Hawkes Bay

2032 Central North Island

2034 Ruahine/Egmont

2036 Nelson Marlborough/Christchurch/Westcoast


Webinars

Mercy Ships

Tuesday 17 June 2025
7.00pm - 8.00pm

Presenter: Nicola Hall, RN Theatre Nurse, Royston Hospital, Hastings

Join Nicola Hall as she shares her inspiring journey with Mercy Ships.

This webinar will offer insights into Mercy Ships' work, life onboard a floating hospital, and Nicola's personal experience on the Global Mercy Sierra Leone in 2024 - 2025.

Registrations required

Use the link: https://tinyurl.com/PNCSHIPS


Past Webinars

Past webinars are available for viewing on My Health Hub: https://myhealthhub.co.nz/pnc/ 

PACU Patient Assessment

Presenter: Amber Cox, RN, BN, PGCert, GradDip Clinical Teaching & Assessment, ACPAN Board Member

Transforming Cardiac Surgery Nursing - The role of RNFSAS and implementation of endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) 

Presenters: Jacque Roberts, Kelsie Abercrombie, Georgia Miller - CNS, RNFSA Cardiac Surgery, Waikato Hospital

Back to the future - Anaesthetic nursing in Aotearoa

Presenter: SIÂN MITCHELL, National Nursing Advisor Perianaesthesia, Southern Cross Healthcare

Hip Fractures

Presenter: Aimee Keogh, CNC Orthopaedic trauma theatre, Dunedin Hospital

From Fiji to Dunedin - A journey of growth

Presenter: Roneel Nand, CNC Main operating theatres, Dunedin Hospital

Acute Behavioural Disturbance

Presenter: Anastasia James, Clinical Nurse Educator PACU, Wellington Regional Hospital

The Treaty or TeTiriti? - An Analasys part two - Application to the Perioperative Setting

Presenter: Dean Cowles, Maori Nurse Advisor - Nursing Directorate, Southern Cross Healthcare

Operation Restore Hope

Presenter: Ian Clark, Anaesthetic Technician, Kaweka Hospital, Hastings

Patient Journey - Through the colorectal cancer pathway and ERAS pathway

Presenter: Kim Snoep, Colorectal Clinical Nurse Sepecialist

Operating room nurses’ perspective of patient centered care in intra-operative setting

Presenter: Chen Zhou, Nurse Educator, Operating Rooms, Āhua Tohu Pōkangia, Perioperative Services, Te Toka Tumai, Auckland

The Treaty or Te Tiriti? An Analysys...

Presenter: Dean Cowles, Maori Nurse Advisor - Nursing Directorate, Southern Cross Healthcare

Skin Cancers

Presenter: Juliet Asbery, NP Dermatology, Te Whatu Ora, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley

Caring for your sterile set-up

Presenter: Diane McClelland, Registered nurse and anaesthetic technician

How to make nursing meaningful

Presenters: Frances Smith RN, Charlene Cotterell RN, Grace Summerfield RN

Sepsis - Early recognition and treatment

Presenter: Cam Howard - Waikato Sepsis CNS, National support co-ordinator - NZ Sepsis Trust.

The Tambourine Man - Alcohol, Drugs and Anaesthesia 

Presenter: Dr Tony Diprose   

Donor Experiences - Nurse and Recipient

Presenters: 
Sharee Johnston, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Vascular, Upper GI and Abdominal Transplant for Adult and Trauma Operating Rooms, Te Whatu Ora Auckland City Hospital
Amy Ng-Thomson, Clinical Quality Specialty Nurse for Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Services at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau

Theatre Communication

Presenter: Maryanne Coyle, Medline Clinical Support for REM Systems Ltd 

Donor Surgery 101 for Perioperative Nurses

Presenter: Jude Quijano, Organ Donor Retrieval Nurse, Te Whatu Ora.

Scrubbing, Gowning and Gloving & Speciman Management

Presenters: Nadine Harrison-Smith, RN - Operating Theatre, and Bobby Guy, CNS at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch. 


Other Events

Perioperative Medicine in Action

Online Course

University College London and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK) will soon be opening the third run of their MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) Perioperative Medicine in Actionafter a highly succesful launch earlier this year.  

This is a free online course that we think would be of interest to our members.

The course provides a unique opportunity to access high quality learning material written by the UK leaders in perioperative medicine, as well as connecting with and discussing key topics with other healthcare providers world wide.

The course is available in English and Spanish.

Kind Regards,

Dr Abigail Whiteman and Dr Katie Samuel
Perioperative Medicine in Action Lead Educators
 

Visit the NZNO event calendar for more events

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