🌍European Perioperative Nursing Day 2025 💙

Innovate, Educate, Elevate: Honoring Perioperative Nurses

From Monday 10 February to Saturday 15 February 2025, perioperative nurses across Europe will come together to celebrate European Perioperative Nurses Day (EPND 2025). This year’s theme, sustainability, highlights the importance of innovative, educational, and forward-thinking solutions to enhance perioperative care while ensuring a sustainable future for healthcare.

 

📅 What’s Happening During EPND 2025?

Tuesday 11 FebruaryEORNA Quiz 🎯
Test your perioperative knowledge! Join our fun and engaging quiz on social media, challenge your colleagues, and showcase your expertise.

Wednesday 12 FebruaryAnsell’s Sustainability Fund Launch 🎓🌿
We’re thrilled to introduce a fund supporting perioperative nurses dedicated to sustainable healthcare. Stay tuned for details!

Thursday 13 FebruaryEORNA webinar 🌍🏥
Join us for an exclusive EPND webinar featuring Carmen Lima and Natalia Magasich-Airola, who will break down the facts and explore real solutions for a greener OR. For more information, go here.

Friday, 14 FebruaryShow Your EPND Spirit! 📸
We want to see how YOU celebrate! Share photos, videos, and stories from your hospital, OR team, or nursing community. Tag us and use the hashtags #EPND2025 #EORNA

Saturday, 15 FebruaryAdvocacy & Awareness Day 📢
Help spread awareness about the challenges perioperative nurses face and the need for sustainable healthcare practices.

 

💡 How You Can Get Involved

💙 Join the Conversation: Follow EORNA on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (Twitter). Like, comment, and share posts using #EPND2025 #EORNA.

📸 Show Your Support: Post a photo of your team in action, share your experiences, or highlight how your hospital is making surgery safer and more sustainable.

🎤 Encourage Others: Ask your colleagues, hospital leaders, and even public figures to share a post recognizing perioperative nurses and the work we do.

📢 Advocate for Change: Speak up about the challenges perioperative nurses face, including staff shortages, surgical smoke exposure, and the need for standardized training across Europe.

📬 Stay Updated & Get Involved: Be the first to receive EPND updates, exclusive content, and ways to participate!

 

👉 Sign Up for the EORNA Newsletter

 

Together, we can innovate, educate, and elevate perioperative nursing!

 

How You Can Help

As a supporter of EORNA and with an interest in the current crisis in operating rooms throughout Europe, we would be honoured if you could show your support on social media by posting a message on Friday 14 February, or Saturday, 15 February using the hashtags #EPND2025 and #EORNA.

To make this easy, we’ve drafted a post you can share. Just copy and paste the text below:

 

Let’s celebrate the incredible work of perioperative nurses across Europe!

Operating room nurses are the backbone of safe surgery – advocating for patients, ensuring precision, and keeping hospitals running.

This year’s theme is Sustainability – because saving lives should not come at the cost of our planet. Let’s support them in making operating rooms greener and more efficient!

Know a perioperative nurse? Tag them and say THANK YOU!

#EPND2025 #EORNA #PerioperativeNurses #SustainabilityInHealthcare

Learn more at: EORNA Website

Mark your calendars for #EPND2025
Share your message about #EPND2025 with the images provided
Use the Official Hashtag #EPND2025

 

 

Media Kit

We’ve prepared some images to help you promote EPND2025. Just download any of the above and ensure you tag EORNA and use #EPND2025.

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Past editions:

2024

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2023

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>> Celebrations around the world

2022

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>> Celebrations around the world

2021

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>> Celebrations around the world

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