Affiliates

International associations

Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) (UK)

Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) (USA) 

Australian Association of Nurse Surgical Assistants (AANSA) 

European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA)

International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (IFNA)

Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada (ORNAC)

South African Theatre Nurse Organisation (SATS) 

Perioperative Nurses College (New Zealand)

Australian affiliates

Coalition of National Nursing and Midwifery Organisations (CoNNMO)

In April, ACORN President, Sarah Bird, and Standards Editor, Sonya Osborne, as well as VPNG President, Pat Nicholson, went to the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo in Boston. Below is a photo of delegates at the Global Summit Day where excellent papers were presented about topics including coping with mass casualties after terrorist attacks in Belgium and French and pressure injury prevention work in China and Australia.