Position Statements

Professional Codes & Guidelines

Policies
Professional standards
Guidelines
Position Statements
- Joint statement on professional responsibilities for prescribing and dispensing medicines
Frameworks
- Framework for assessing standards for practice
Fact sheets
COVID-19 guidance for nurses and midwives

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) approves all position statements to provide guidance to the professions. These also help to clarify the NMBAs views and expectations on a range of issues.

Joint statement on professional responsibilities for prescribing and dispensing medicines
Position statement on nurses and cosmetic medical procedures - April 2023
No place for sexism, sexual harassment or violence in healthcare (205 KB,PDF), Word version (120 KB,DOCX)
Joint statement - Cultural safety: Nurses and midwives leading the way for safer healthcare
NMBA and CATSINaM joint statement on culturally safe care
Position statement on nurses, midwives and vaccination - October 2016
Position statement on midwife practitioners - March 2015