Updated documents for national policies, guidelines, factsheets and position statements

27 Mar 2015

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has conducted a review and analysis of its suite of documents to ensure consistency across national policies, guidelines, factsheets and position statements.

The review identified a number of documents that required revision or re-write and a number of recommendations to improve stakeholder engagement with our web page.

Based on this review, a new suite of updated and streamlined NMBA documents including national policies, guidelines, factsheets and position statements have been finalised.

We now have the following documents available:

Revised documents

• Fact sheet: Renewal for registered nurses and midwives
• Fact sheet: Renewal information for employers of nurses and midwives
• Fact sheet: Nurse practitioner category notation (Victoria)
• Fact sheet: Scope of practice of nurse practitioners
• Fact sheet: Nurses with a sole qualification in mental health nursing, paediatric nursing or disability nursing
• Fact sheet for student registration
• Fact sheet for education providers on student registration
• Fact sheet: Continuing professional development
• Fact sheet: Recency of practice
• Fact sheet: Registration as a nurse or a midwife
• Fact sheet: Non-practising registration for nurses and midwives
• Fact sheet: Mothercraft nurses ineligible for Board-approved medication units
• Policy: Exemptions from continuing professional development for nurses and midwives
• Policy: Re-entry to practice
• Policy: Midwives in private practice
• Position statement on midwife practitioners
• Framework: Assessment of nursing and midwifery applicants for re-entry to practice
• Fact sheet: The context of practice for registered nurses and midwives 
• Fact sheet: The use of health practitioner protected titles

New document

• Position Statement on the role of nurses and midwives in a national emergency