Introduction

The Greek Operating Room Nurses Association (GORNA) was founded in 1987 and represents more than 1400 perioperative nurses through out the country.

GORNA's members are nurses who works in operating rooms, central sterilization units and in anaesthesiology departments. In order to cover the special educational and professional needs, GORNA established three different sections for each of the above mentioned categories.

Since April 1992, GORNA is a Board member of the European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA). We have organized seventeen succeful national congresses, the 3rd European perioperative congress and in an annual basis we organize one day seminars for sterilization, disinfection, control of SSI etc aiming to the continuing education of perioperative nurses. Please, notice that in our country there isn't an Association for Sterilization specialists.

For further information please visit our web site at www.sydnox.gr.

GORNA Events

Upcoming Conferences, Congresses & Workshops

...to be announced...

Past Conferences, Congresses & Workshops

21st National Greek Conference of Surgery Nurses
07 October 2010 to 10 October 2010
Makedonia Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece
[ More information: www.sydnox.gr/thessaloniki2010 ]

Annual WFHSS and GORNA Conference 2009
07 October 2009 to 10 October 2009
Creta & Terra Maris Conference Center, Crete, Greece
[ Conference Details ]
[ 1st Announcement & Call for Abstracts (PDF File) ]
[ Final Programme (PDF File) ]
[ Conference Poster (PDF File) ]
[ More information: www.wfhss.com/html/conf/wfhss-conference-2009/ ]
[ Lectures and Presentations ]

GORNA Contact

Information about Greece

Statistics

• Area: 131,940 km² (land 130,800 km²; water: 1,140 km²)
• Population: 10,688,058 (July 2006)
• Capital: Athens
• Languages: Greek 99% (official), English, French
• Religion: Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
• Climate: temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
• Time Zone: GMT +2hrs
• Currency: Euro [EUR]

Location

Greece is located in southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey. Greece shares its border with Albania (282 km), Bulgaria (494 km), Turkey (206 km), and Macedonia (246 km), and it has 13,676 km of coastline. It has a mostly mountainous terrain with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands