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Please go to downloads page for access to our By-Laws. Membership and other forms.

Objectives

  • To provide educational opportunities for perioperative nurses
  • To provide a forum for discussion of issues regarding nursing practice,
    standards and competencies
  • To promote and facilitate the exchange of ideas and concerns among
    perioperative nurses throughout the province
  • To promote awareness of the role of the perioperative nurse

Affiliations

  • Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada
  • Canadian Nurses Association
  • Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia 
  • Recognition as a special interest group

Activities

  • An Annual General Meeting at the end of the fiscal year
  • Elections held at the Annual General Meeting
  • Recognition for attendance at meetings and/or participation in ORNANS
    activities
  • Financial assistance available for educational purposes if funding guidelines
    are met
  • Active participation with College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia as a special interest group
  • Celebration and promotion of Perioperative Nursing during O.R. Nurses' Week in November

Membership

  • Visit ORNAC.CA. Once on ORNAC website, go to “JOIN NOW”
  • All ORNAC members automatically become members of ORNANS
  • Dues collected annually
  • Active members must work in a perioperative setting and must have a current
    ORNANS registration
  • All ORNANS members automatically receive the Canadian Operating Room Nursing Journal when dues are paid by December 31st.
  • Other disciplines associated with Peri-Operative Nursing may join as an Associate.
  • Registered Nurses who were previously active in perioperative nursing
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