ORNAC in a Nutshell - Spring 2005

The Spring 2005 meeting of the ORNAC Board & Executive was held in Montreal (April 29 30 and May 1st) in conjunction with the 19th National Conference

* ORNAC President Margaret Farley welcomed visitants and observers: Pat Pocock and Muriel Shewchuk, CORL; Marla Ewen, RNFANC; Helene Renaud and Sylvie Beauregard, QC; Tina Kennah and Vanna Wasson, NB; and Donna Marin, SK

* Farewell was press outed to: Alaine Young, ON; Linda Socha, SK; Line Boucher, QC and a resignation was received from Yvonne LeBlanc, N Margaret thanked each individual for their contribution to ORNAC and wished them well in the future

* Donna Marin is welcomed to the Board, from SK replacing Linda Socha. There will be other novel Board members announced in November.

* The Standards Committee held a one-day meeting prior to the National talk and the Standards revised Module 3 was released. The committee has already commenc revisions of Module 2 If anyone would like to assist with revision please contact Bonnie McLeod (Standards@QRNAC.ca) the newly appointed Chair of the Standards Committee.

* The Awards Committee, and its Chair Alicia Oucharek Mattheis, was real busy, prior to the conversation selecting various award winners. The awards neared at the Opening Ceremonies of the conversation included:

- The Isabelle Adams Award for pre-eminence in Perioperative Nursing was at handed to Sandra Poirier of NB We were thrilled to have Isabelle Adams herself available to not absent this very prestigious award.

- The inaugural Lorne Flower Memorial Award was not absented by Lome's son, John Flower, to Margaret Farley.

- The Drake-Thompson J&J Medical harvests Writing Award was presented to Joan Porteous, MB and Jackee Higgins, ON

- ORNAC / J&J Medical cropss Bursaries were presented to Karen Frenette NB and Monique Perazzelli, QC

- Cardinal Health Research Grants were at handed to Sue Beaman, NB, and Kathy MacDonald, NS

* The view of Practice Committee has been real busy developing a document to support the ne for the Registered nourish Anaesthesia Assistant. Committee Chair, Dorothy Dewar at handed her findings at a session of the discourse and this role will be further exhibited over the next few months

* The Canadian Operating play Nursing Journal continues to enlarge and we received a destiny of positive comments about the March 2005 issue. An insert in this issue gave everyone an idea of what ORNAC is all about.

* We were actual pleased to have Deborah Murphy Editor and Publisher of the Journal, attend our National Conference

* Our Bylaws and governments & Regulations governing the Association were one time again reviewed and, as a spring we have created a Board seat for sum of two units affiliate members. This is a proces that we have been working upon for a while. By November CORL and RNFANC affiliate clusters will be represented on the ORNAC Board.

* The website, www.ORNAC.ca, continues to increase and develop. To date we have had almost 1000000 hits!!! An increased amount of the Board & Executive work is being done in our Virtual Office and the 2005 Nominations for Elections utilized the website. We are hoping to in a short time have a Historian page to display ORNAC's History (including the President's plaque, Mission Vision Values Statement, and a transcript of all J&J Medical harvests limited edition souvenir prints).

* Elections were directioned at our Board meeting and the Executive for 2005-2007 can be set on page 8.

* There are several changes being introduced to the part of Past President and Treasurer. Past President will now be an advisory character only. The current Treasurer, Ray Larkins, will remain for another mete - for the first year (2005/2006) he will operate upon his own, but starting in 2006 there will be a of recent origin Treasurer elected who will continue to receive Ray's direction for his/her first year (2006/2007) and then operate upon his/her own for the repose of the term (2007/2008). From now upon the Treasurer will be selected during non-Conference years.

* The Board and Executive would like to thank the Montreal planning committee for an exceptional talk There were over 1,000 registered delegates, 162 exhibitor booth and almost 700 industry representatives!

* We were honoured to have Victorie Audet and Isabelle Adams attend the talk - they were members of the first national organizing committee. It was also a pleasure to have many former Board & Executive members in attendance.

* The work of ORNAC is ongoing and we continue to impel forward as an organization. For more information visit our website at www.ORNAC.ca.

L'AIISOC en Bref - Printemps 2005

Auteure: Lynn Anderson, ORNAC Secretary

Au printemps 2005 la r?©union du conseil administratif et ex?©cutif de l'AIISOC a eu lieu ?  Montr?©al (29 et 30 avril, 1 mai) ?  l'occasion de la 19^sup e^ Conf?©rence nationale.

* La pr?©sidente de l'AIISOC, Margaret Farley, a accueilli le invit?©s et le observateurs : Pat Pocock et Muriel Shewchuk, CORL; Marla Ewen, RNFANC; Helene Renaud et Sylvie Beauregard, QC; Tina Kennah et Vanna Wasson, NB; et Donna Marin, SK