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