Fact Sheets

Fact sheets

• Advanced nursing practice and specialty areas within nursing
• Audit on Safety and quality guidelines for privately practising midwives
• Concurrent registration (being registered as both a registered nurse and an enrolled nurse)
• Education providers on student registration
• Endorsement as a nurse practitioner
• Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives
• Enrolled nurses and medicine administration
• Enrolled nurse standards for practice
• Graduate applications for nursing and midwifery
• Mothercraft nurses ineligible for Board-approved medication units
• Non-practising registration for nurses and midwives
• Nurse practitioner category notation (Victoria)
• Nurses with a sole qualification in mental health nursing, paediatric nursing or disability nursing
• Professional indemnity insurance arrangements
• Re-entry to practice (341 KB,PDF), Word version (207 KB,DOCX)
• Registered nurse standards for practice
• Registration as a nurse or midwife
• Registration as a nurse and a midwife (dual registration)
• Student registration 
• The use of health practitioner protected titles  

Fact sheets and FAQ relating to registration standards

English language skills (ELS) registration standard

• FAQ: English language skills registration standard 

Continuing professional development for nurses and midwives

• Fact sheet: Continuing professional development 
• Exemptions from continuing professional development

Recency of practice

• Fact sheet: Recency of practice

Information about advertising

The NMBA and AHPRA have developed information to help practitioners and others understand their obligations when advertising a regulated health service. This information does not replace the NMBA’s Guidelines for advertising regulated health services. Advertising resources and FAQ are available on the AHPRA website.

• Further information on advertising therapeutic claims (74.3 KB,PDF), Word version (578 KB,DOCX)