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March 2011
Call for Abstracts
July 2011
Online Registration Opens
31 May 2011
Abstract Submission Deadline
July 2011
Authors Acceptance Notification
15 August 2011
Registration Deadline Date for authors
31 August 2011
Early Bird Registration Deadline
August 2011
Award Nominations Close
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Conference Managers
PNAQ Inc Annual Conference 2011
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Awards
The PNAQ Inc. is delighted to be able to present the hard working nurses throughout Queensland with Annual PNAQ Inc Awards. These Awards were developed to assist the ongoing promotion of excellence in the specialist field of Perioperative Nursing. The Awards will be presented each year at the Awards Dinner during the PNAQ Inc Annual State Conference.
Awards presentations take place each year at the Annual State Conference - Awards Dinner
Please visit the Call for Abstracts Page for details regarding Best Paper, Best Poster and Novice Presenter award.
Why have the Awards?
PNAQ Inc. believe that the Awards will assist in the creation of a common vision for achieving Perioperative excellence through:
- providing professional credibility for Perioperative Nurses
- recognising individual and team efforts of Perioperative Nurses at a local level
- recognising PNAQ as a professional body which promotes Perioperative excellence.
Benefit to Patients
Patients receive improved outcomes from innovative, evidence based practice as a result of extending practitioners into new realms of Perioperative clinical service.
Benefit to Perioperative Nurses
- Recognition for service, effort, dedication and initiative
- Personal satisfaction for those who strive for improvement
- Recognition for professional and career profile
- Professional development and growth
- Validation of worth to the organisation
- Experience in the application of the EQUIP domains of practice and principles
Benefit to Individual Practice Settings
- Recognition for the promotion of proactive and innovative clinical practice
- Enhances a positive morale within the practice setting
- Promotion of Perioperative nursing as a career path
- Recognition as a preferred place of employment
- Fosters renewed commitment from staff towards professional practice
- Evidence of quality outcomes
- Unifies the application of EQUIP domains of practice and principles
Benefit to Sponsors of the PNAQ Inc. Awards
- Raised profile of organisation to individual Perioperative Nurses
- Fosters associations with your organisation and individual expert clinicians
- Promotes excellence in the organisation
- Recognises and promotes service development
- Unifies the direction for excellent clinical practice outcomes between organisations and Perioperative Nurses
- Promotes Perioperative nursing as a career path
- Unifies the application of the EQUIP domains of practice and principles
Benefit to PNAQ Inc.
- Promotion of the advancement of Perioperative Nursing
- Raises the overall standard of Perioperative Nursing practice
- Promotion of Perioperative nursing as a career path
- Raises the profile of the association
Awards Categories
Perioperative Teamwork
A Perioperative nursing team who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in Perioperative leadership by applying the theory of teamwork to their Perioperative practice.
Excellence in Perioperative Nursing
A Perioperative nurse whose work and accomplishments have broadly impacted on Perioperative nursing in two or more of the following areas:
- Practice
- Management
- Education and/or Research
Novice Award
A Perioperative nurse with less than 24 months experience who has significantly contributed to one or more of the following aspects of Perioperative nursing:
- Clinical Practice
- Patient Education
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Education
- Nursing Research
Previous Award Recipients
2010 Team Award
Annette Smith & Emma Kampera - ENT Surgical Outreach "Deadly Ears", Statewide Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Hearing Program
2010 Perioperative Excellence Award
Ruth Melville - Nambour General Hospital
2010 Novice Award
Kylie Cook - Sunshine Coast Health Service
Jackie Taylor Memorial Scholarship
Kellie Jorgensen - Redcliffe Hospital
Please click here to view past recipients