The Saturday Morning Education Session planned for October 25 has been cancelled.  The session was to be an "Ortho vs Neuro" for spinal surgery education discussion and debate.  Unfortunately one of our speakers became unable to present, and without a ready replacement the session had to be cancelled.

The SAPNA Education Committee is investigating an additional Education Morning, perhaps in November for members.  Wacth the website for further details. 

If you have an opinion or a requirement of your professional organisation, please contact us via email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or via the SAPNA phone on 0424 974 660. Better still we are looking for perioperative nurses to become part of the committee engine that drives SAPNA for its members and perioperative nursing in South Australia. Committee nomination forms are available on the SAPNA website.

For those of you that attended the recent ACORN Conference may be aware that the new ACORN staffing standard was discussed.

There have been some major changes to this standard from the 2006 standard which could impact on our members greatly.

SAPNA is concerned at the way this standard was reviewed and changed. There was no consultation with SAPNA and the first we knew about the changes was after they were ratified.SAPNA feels that all states and territories should have been consulted and had input in the proposed changes.

SAPNA will not conduct a Country Study Weekend in 2008.

This decision was taken as this is the year of the ACORN Conference and the close proximity in dates and the time and money that both our members and Health Trade Partners pay to attend these events. This decision wasn’t taken easily, but was made in the best interest of our members and Health Trade Partners.