Calendar and Events

On this page:

• PNC Calendar
• Conferences
• Schedule of future PNC Conferences
• Webinars
• Past webinars
• Other Events
   

2025 PNC CALENDAR

Important dates for Perioperative Nurses College members

CONFERENCES

Perioperative Nurses College Annual General Meeting 2025

18 October 2025
12.30pm

This will be held via Zoom. Link will be sent to members at a later date.

Vacancies on National Committee

Regional reps needed for:

• Hawkes Bay
• Auckland
• Wellington

Read the roles available and responsibilities here

• Nomination form - Regional representative
• Nomination form - PNC Vice Chair
• Nomination form - PNC Secretary
• Nomination form - PNC Treasurer

Expressions of Interest

Auckland 2026 Conference Planning Committee

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Future PNC Conferences and locations

• 2026 Auckland/Northland
• 2028 Otago/Southland
• 2030 Hawkes Bay
• 2032 Central North Island
• 2034 Ruahine/Egmont
• 2036 Nelson Marlborough/Christchurch/Westcoast

WEBINARS

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

Tuesday 14 October 2025
7.00pm - 8.00pm

• Webinar flyer

Presenter: CHEN ZHOU, Nurse Educator, Operating Rooms, Ahua Tohu Pokangia,Perioperative Services, Te Toka Tumai, Auckland

Join us to gain practical lessons learned, deepen your understanding of perioperative nursing in cardiothoracic surgery, and reflect on how innovation can shape safer, more efective care for patients.

Registration required

Use the link: https://tinyurl.com/PNCMITRAL

PAST WEBINARS

Information resource for members

View past PNC webinars on My Health Hub at https://myhealthhub.co.nz/pnc/.

• Acute Behavioural Disturbance – Presenter: Anastasia James, Clinical Nurse Educator PACU, Wellington Regional Hospital
• Back to the future - Anaesthetic nursing in Aotearoa – Presenter: SIÂN MITCHELL, National Nursing Advisor Perianaesthesia, Southern Cross Healthcare
• Caring for your sterile set-up – Presenter: Diane McClelland, Registered nurse and anaesthetic technician
• Donor Experiences - Nurse and Recipient – Presenters: Sharee Johnston, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Vascular, Upper GI and Abdominal Transplant for Adult and Trauma Operating Rooms, Te Whatu Ora Auckland City Hospital AND Amy Ng-Thomson, Clinical Quality Specialty Nurse for Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Services at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau
• Donor Surgery 101 for Perioperative Nurses – Presenter: Jude Quijano, Organ Donor Retrieval Nurse, Te Whatu Ora.
• ECMO - Core concepts and nurses' guide to percutaneous ECMO cannulation – Presenter: Blessel Joy Paderna, RN, Te Whatu Ora - Southern
• From Fiji to Dunedin - A journey of growth – Presenter: Roneel Nand, CNC Main operating theatres, Dunedin Hospital
• Hip Fractures – Presenter: Aimee Keogh, CNC Orthopaedic trauma theatre, Dunedin Hospital
• How to make nursing meaningful – Presenters: Frances Smith RN, Charlene Cotterell RN, Grace Summerfield RN
• Mercy Ships – Presenter: Nicola Hall, RN Theatre Nurse, Royston Hospital, Hastings
• Operating room nurses’ perspective of patient centered care in intra-operative setting – Presenter: Chen Zhou, Nurse Educator, Operating Rooms, Āhua Tohu Pōkangia, Perioperative Services, Te Toka Tumai, Auckland
• Operation Restore Hope – Presenter: Ian Clark, Anaesthetic Technician, Kaweka Hospital, Hastings
• PACU Patient Assessment – Presenter: Amber Cox, RN, BN, PGCert, GradDip Clinical Teaching & Assessment, ACPAN Board Member
• Patient Journey - Through the colorectal cancer pathway and ERAS pathway – Presenter: Kim Snoep, Colorectal Clinical Nurse Sepecialist
• Scrubbing, Gowning and Gloving & Speciman Management – Presenters: Nadine Harrison-Smith, RN - Operating Theatre, and Bobby Guy, CNS at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch. 
• Sepsis - Early recognition and treatment – Presenter: Cam Howard - Waikato Sepsis CNS, National support co-ordinator - NZ Sepsis Trust.
• Skin Cancers – Presenter: Juliet Asbery, NP Dermatology, Te Whatu Ora, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley
• The Tambourine Man - Alcohol, Drugs and Anaesthesia  – Presenter: Dr Tony Diprose
• The Treaty or Te Tiriti? An Analysis, Part 1 – Presenter: Dean Cowles, Maori Nurse Advisor - Nursing Directorate, Southern Cross Healthcare
• The Treaty or TeTiriti? - An Analysis, Part 2 - Application to the Perioperative Setting – Presenter: Dean Cowles, Maori Nurse Advisor - Nursing Directorate, Southern Cross Healthcare
• Theatre Communication – Presenter: Maryanne Coyle, Medline Clinical Support for REM Systems Ltd 
• Transforming Cardiac Surgery Nursing - The role of RNFSAS and implementation of endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH)  – Presenters: Jacque Roberts, Kelsie Abercrombie, Georgia Miller - CNS, RNFSA Cardiac Surgery, Waikato Hospital

OTHER EVENTS

Perioperative Medicine in Action

Online course

University College London and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK) will soon be opening the third run of their MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) Perioperative Medicine in Action, after a highly succesful launch earlier this year.  

• Download the course poster

This is a free online course that we think would be of interest to our members.

The course provides a unique opportunity to access high quality learning material written by the UK leaders in perioperative medicine, as well as connecting with and discussing key topics with other healthcare providers world wide.

The course is available in English and Spanish.

Kind Regards,

Dr Abigail Whiteman and Dr Katie Samuel
Perioperative Medicine in Action Lead Educators
 

For more events see the NZNO event calendar