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Manitoba Operating Room Nurses Association (MORNA)

Welcome to the MORNA web site

This site was developed to reach our perioperative colleagues and to promote the educational endeavors offered by YOUR professional specialty organization, MORNA.

We encourage you to share your comments and suggestions so that we may promote our specialty within Manitoba and in association with our national body, ORNAC.

President's Message

I am pleased to welcome you to a new and exciting year for the Manitoba Operating Room Nurses Association (MORNA) which was kicked off with a Wine and cheese Mixer in September. We have six educational sessions planned for this year plus a Workshop in March.

I want to thank Jackie Dutfield for remaining on as Educational Coordinator and Gladys Zinnick as Treasurer. If people did not step forward to fill the executive position, it would be difficult to keep MORNA going. I also want to thank all the Hospital Reps for their help.

Membership for the 2009-2010, is down at present, so encourage your colleagues. Remember that you must join by December 1, 2009 to become a member of ORNAC and get the Journal. I encourage you to invite a colleague who is not a member to join MORNA. There are many benefits of being part of a professional nursing organization. MORNA provides perioperative nurse with continuing educational opportunities through our MORNA Meetings and Educational Sessions, and Workshops / Conference. MORNA also provides funding opportunities for attending ORNAC Conferences or other conferences that a member requests funding for. Attending these gives perioperative nurses an opportunity to network with other perioperative nurse to exchange ideas, find out how others handle hot issues, and learn new or best practices. It reminds us of the importance of our role as the patient's advocate in our pursuit of nursing excellence.

November 8 - 14, 2009 is Perioperative Nurse Week, hope you will take this time to celebrate with your colleagues and reflect on your practice. A little bit about the history of the week, this started out as a day in 1979. The AORN House of Delegates approved a resolution that AORN designate a day each year to promote consumer education and enhance public knowledge. November 14th was originally OR Nurse Day and later became a week. In 2000, OR Nurse Week was changed to perioperative Nurse Week to more accurately reflect the broad spectrum of patient care provided to the surgical patient by peioperative nuurses.

I look forward to seeing and talking with you at the MORNA Meetings.

Donna Fallis RN CPN (C)
MORNA President