One of Stawell Regional Health’s nurses has become the Victorian director for the Australian College of Perioperative Nurses.
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The perioperative nurse and associate nurse unit manager Patricia Flood from Stawell Regional Health will represent Victoria on the ACORN board, as Victoria’s director.
“We are thrilled for Trish who will now be representing Victorian perioperative nurses at the national level,” Acting CEO of Stawell Regional Health Libby Fifis said.
ACORN is a registered health promotion charity promotes the prevention and control of disease through focusing on the patient, the community and the perioperative profession.
Perioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures.
“Each state is represented on the ACORN Board,” Ms Flood said.
“I am honoured to represent and serve not just Victorian perioperative patients, nurses and organisations, but to also bring a rural perspective.”
ACORN’s vision is for Australian patients to receive the safest, highest quality perioperative care in the world.
One way this is achieved is through the review and publication of Best Practice standards which ensure that high quality evidence is readily available for the perioperative environment.
“I am excited to also chair the Journal and Research committees, with a focus on our quarterly, peer reviewed journal, the Journal of Perioperative Nursing,” Ms Flood said.
Ms Fifis said “Trish has been a member of the state body, Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group for nearly 10 years, and more recently assumed a position on the committee.
“She has been contributing to VPNG through a number of ways, in particular working within the education subcommittee to provide quality educational opportunities to Victorian perioperative nurses.
“She has also successfully completed a position in an ACORN team to write a new standard for best practice.
“I have no doubt that her role on the national body will benefit all perioperative nurses and their patients.”