Today, on World Patient Saefty Day, we'd love to hear what you or your organisation does every day to improve patient safety. In 100 words or less please share your best tips.

Looking for some CPD points? We have an opportunity for you, tomorrow @ 5pm AEST.

ACORN's draft Perioperative Nursing Professional Standard for Practice - Nurse Educator is now available for members and stakeholders to review and provide comment until 13-09- 2021. Please share this news with your perioperative colleagues. surveymonkey.com/r/Peri-op_Nurs…

HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you manage patients in acute pain in a #hospital setting? We want your input to our #opioid analgesic #CCS, to improve care for patients prescribed opioid #analgesics for #acutepain: ow.ly/Kcuu50G1h5u RACSurgeons AOA ACEM @acn_tweet

Osborne and colleagues demonstrate the importance of ACORN's Standards for safe and quality perioperative care. Updated ACORN Accountable Items standard due May 2022

Want to shape the future of Perioperative Nurse Managers? Provide your feedback on our current draft standard for Periop Managers here surveymonkey.com/r/NURS_MAN Be quick comments close 15th Sept 2021.

Do you have 8 minutes to assist ACORN? Stakeholders can review and provide comments on ACORN's draft Perioperative Nursing Professional Standard for Practice (PNPSPs) - Pre-admission and Day Stay Procedure Nurses. It takes about 8 minutes. surveymonkey.com/r/Pre-Ad_DOS

A new paper from Jed Duff that we will referencing in the new 2022 ACORN standards. A long-held notion poorly understood. Thanks for adding to our body of knowledge Jed. What does surgical conscience mean to perioperative nurses: An interpr... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today is World Sepsis Day. Australia's clinicians can learn more about sepsis at ACSQHC's campaign toolkit safetyandquality.gov.au/about-us/media… You can access also comment of the draft Sepsis Clinical Care Standard at safetyandquality.gov.au/standards/clin… before 30th September 2021.

NSW Health is reviewing it's accountable items policy. Comment on their draft at: cec.health.nsw.gov.au/engage/have-yo…

Evolving healthcare and the need for standards | IEC e-tech etech.iec.ch/node/655

Are you an Australian-based perioperative Nurse'Services Manager? If so we'd be grateful if you provided your current staffing #s and Standards needs to ACORN. Please consider submitting this data via our survey at surveymonkey.com/r/5RVQ82V

Videos show 'dangerous' practices in Daniel Lanzer's cosmetic surgery clinics, plastic surgeons say abc.net.au/news/2021-10-2… via ABC Australia A great case for mandatory adoption of the ACORN Standards in Australian perioperative settings.

ACORN Clinical staff are taking a break. Therefore, ACORN is not currently accepting any clinical or professional questions, including questions about the ACORN Standards or ACORN Education. All links to question submissions via our webiste have been de-activated until Feb 2022.

Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways Following Surgery ja.ma/2mPHXy9

What is the most appropriate action the perioperative RN should take regarding a blood splash on the OR floor?... rlm.ag/JC43T

Nursing should be a STEM discipline! Engineer Daniel Oerther, an honorary Sigma member, presents a compelling case for nursing, which combines STEM skills with empathy. bit.ly/2Epj3wz #STEMpathy Daniel B. Oerther, PE, BCEE, BCES Hopkins Nursing Dean #STEM

What holds people back from speaking up about #patientsafety? National leaders will discuss challenges and opportunities for engaging patients and providers on March 12 at 1 PM ET bit.ly/2s4Mfr2 #PSAW18

Professor Stephen Duckett, Director of the Health Program at Grattan Institute and Emeritus Professor of Health Policy at La Trobe University presented this afternoon on the topic of Improving surgical quality and safety #VASM #TargetZero #RACS #Health #Safety

What?! There's a tool for that? x.com/JAMASurgery/st…