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Excerpts from the March 2000 issue of PAR Excellence,
"MNDAKSPAN Roots Planted 25 Years Ago"
"In 1975, few educational opportunities were available for the
recovery room nurse. Responding to this educational need a group of
nurses organized a seminar for recovery room nurses. Held in June in
1975 in Rochester, Minnesota, the conference was sponsored by St.
Mary's Hospital. The response to the seminar was tremendous. Nurses
from Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Minnesota attended."
"Following the seminar Connie Nosbisch, RN organized a meeting to
form the Minnesota Association of Recovery Room Nurses (MARRN). The
infant organization boasted thirteen members and later met in
Minneapolis to form the first Board of Directors and elect Nobisch
as the first president."
"The first official MARRN seminar was held at Mercy Medical Center
in Minneapolis on May 1, 1976. The plans were to have a spring
seminar in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and a fall seminar in an
outstate area to benefit nurses all over the state."
"Also in 1979, MARRN joined the newly organized American Society of
Perianesthesia Nurses (ASPAN). Mary Lou Barnett, RN from Minnesota
was on the original founding ASPAN Board." "The spring of 1987
brought a name change from Minnesota Association of Recovery Room
Nurses (MARRN) to Post Anesthesia Nurses of Minnesota (PANOM)."
"Responding to educational needs of nurses in the neighboring
Dakotas the membership voted to incorporate North and South Dakota
into the Minnesota PANOM organization. This occurred in 1994 with
the formulation of the new organization, the Minnesota-Dakotas
Society of Post Anesthesia Nurses (MnDakSPAN)."
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