World Standards Day celebrates and recognises the incredible benefits of standards and their role in enhancing our daily lives and our world. The day builds awareness and a greater understanding and appreciation for the valuable work everyone in the standards community does every day.
The Wounds Australia 2024 Conference has been announced for 14-16 October 2024, to be held at the Gold Coast in Queensland. The Wounds Australia 2024 Conference will explore the latest in industry research and development through the conference theme, Champions of Change: 30 Years of Action. We look forward to welcoming more than 1,100 attendees from a diverse range of disciplines, including practicing wound care nurses, pharmacists, geriatricians, general practitioners, podiatrists and medical academics, to the Gold Coast in October 2024.
This annual event shines a spotlight on the critical importance of healthcare environmental hygiene (HEH) in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), protecting patients, and ensuring the safety of healthcare workers. This year's theme, "The 6 Technical Domains of Healthcare Environmental Hygiene," emphasizes key areas essential to effective infection prevention, including: Surfaces Air control Water control Device reprocessing & sterilization Laundry Waste management These six domains are pivotal to enhancing patient safety, improving outcomes, and creating a healthier environment within healthcare facilities […]
In 2024, the theme is U.N.I.T.E. Unify Novice Inspire Talk Exhale Download the PNW poster https://www.acorn.org.au/client_images/2661886.png
World AIDS Day is an international day that began in 1988. It’s held on 1 December each year to help raise awareness about HIV and AIDS in our community and across the world. It reminds us that HIV is still a global epidemic. In Australia, it is a day for the community to: show their support for people living with HIV raise awareness about prevention, treatment and care eliminate stigma and discrimination around HIV remember people who have died of […]