I am pleased to say that we have achieved many things for our members and am conscious that I have been in the fortunate position of pulling together many things that committee members have been working on over the past few years.

The greatest achievement for this year has been the publishing of the 4 guidelines and the response has been fantastic. Copies have been sent to Health Departments, Auditors, Unions, Public Hospitals, Private Hospitals, and Doctors surgeries.

The new look journal has continued to become more and more impressive with its increased number of articles and peer review. This has enabled an increase in the number of advertisements, which has lessened the financial burden of the journal.

I believe that we have raised the profile of ADSNA significantly within Australia with 3 ADSNA on the ADSC and subsequent input to the Day Surgery handbook and close involvement with the national conference organization, the great response to the guidelines, the increased use of the web site and the journal.

We have also raised the profile of ADSNA internationally with our Poster presentation in Boston and my invitation to represent Australia on the IAAS. We have been able to continue to pursue affiliation with international organizations and have one international member to date.

The state conferences this year have been a great success and a credit to their state committees. I have enjoyed attending 3 of them and look forward to attending more in the future.

Next year should also be an exciting and rewarding year with our involvement with the National conference along with Denise O’Brien’s visit, further guidelines being published, more journals, more articles and more meetings!!

My challenge to the incoming committee is to put processes into place so that the workload can be more evenly shared so we can balance work, family and ADSNA commitments more effectively.

I would like to acknowledge the work that Rhonda Williams has done as secretary over the past 2 years. (not to mention the catering and transporting for us when we are in Adelaide) I wish her all the best with better health and hope we can catch up at state and/or national conferences.

Finally, many of us have had difficult times personally as well as professionally throughout the year. I would like to thank each one of you who have supported me both personally and in this role as President and I look forward to working with the new committee in the coming year.

Wendy Adams

• Gaining lecturing posts in the area of Day Surgery in Universities, short courses and seminars
• Presenting Day Surgery issues at Conferences
• Increasing the Volume of Articles in both our journal and other health journals
• Having ADSNA reps lecturing in universities in the area of Day Surgery
• Having Day Surgery Papers presented in at least 3 non Day Surgery specific conferences
• Increasing the volume and quality of articles in the journal and working closely with the editor to move to a fully peer reviewed journal.
• Publishing at least 2 Day Surgery Article’s in non Day Surgery specific journals
• Development of Guidelines

• Insurance/indemnity issues for voluntary lecturing at Universities
  • ANF Vic branch lawyers also contacted for advise – awaiting reply
• Presenting at Universities
  • Michelle Cairns presented to the La Trobe Uni post grad peri op students on Day Surgery in May 2003 – 2 hour lecture – see attached letter
  • NSW reps presenting at UTS and SU courses and Grad Dip courses
  • NSW reps presenting at College of Nursing courses as requested
    
• Presenting Day Surgery Issues
  • Wendy Adams presented at the QLD “Ausmed” Conference on Day Surgery & The Monash Medical Centre Paediatric Education Day
  • Celia Leary presenting at the NSW “Ausmed” conference on pre-admission
  • Michelle Cairns presented on Discharge scoring at a freestanding centres education day
• Article re: research commenced writing with La Trobe for submission to Ambulatory Surgery
  • This has not progressed much further to date as Prof Pearson has been overseas for 3 months. However a meeting has been set for Friday 29th August to resume progress
• Guidelines
  • Staffing, preadmission, admission and competency guidelines have been released
  • QLD and WA are working on the Education Guidelines
  • Approached Kim Lee from RCH Melb re: help with paed guidelines, she is currently on LSL
• Boston Conference
  • Wendy Adams presented the research poster a the international conference
  • Celia Leary spoke on Accreditation and this was one of the few Nursing papers

Marketing Report

My role with Marketing has been very closely linked with my role as President.
Our aim was to raise the profile of ADSNA and increase the state membership.
I am pleased to announce that national membership has increased to 646 with all states reporting increases.

• The marketing bag and banner was used at the Victorian, Tasmanian and NSW conference.
• The banner was displayed at the Western Australia conference.
• The ADSNA power point presentation displayed at the Queensland, Western Australia and Victorian conference as well as presented me at the Tasmanian and NSW conference.
• The continual use of ADSNA pens and magnets
• The web site has been better utilized by other states and has had 5000 hits in the past 3 months (compared with 108 in the same period last year) with a lot of activity on the conference pages and PDF files (which indicates forms being downloaded)
• The stationary has been printed as agreed to by committee: letter heads, with compliment slips and business cards for President, Treasurer, Secretary, Journal, Guidelines and Committee member.
• The journal has continued to improve in presentation and content.
• The publishing of the 4 new guidelines has increased awareness of ADSNA and its activities.
• The web site has not yet been linked to all other sites as requested last meeting.
• The reciprocal advert for ACORN has yet been designed.

• Increase website development with links to other web sites
• Attend and increase ADSNA profile at Western Australia, Queensland and South
  Australian conferences.
• High profile at the National conference in September with pens, magnets, and large focus on International membership.