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Position statements and shared resources

Position statements

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.

Shared resources

The National Boards and Ahpra have published resources to support your professional practice.

Regulating new and changing healthcare

The way healthcare is delivered is changing thanks to technological advancements, new drugs and new models of care. We're working to be more proactive in addressing risk in this rapidly changing environment.

Medicinal cannabis prescribing

This guidance aims to support medical and nurse practitioners to practise safely and meet their professional responsibilities, including their respective code of conduct.

Complaints checklist

A checklist for practitioners to help resolve feedback and complaints made by patients, clients or carers when they are first made directly to the health provider. The checklist was developed by the Ahpra, the National Boards and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly becoming integrated into many areas of healthcare. This resource explains how existing responsibilities in National Boards’ codes of conduct apply when practitioners use AI in their practice.

Advertising hub

The hub contains the advertising guidelines and resources to help advertisers, including practitioners, understand their obligations and tools to help check their advertising is correct. There is also information about how we manage complaints about advertising.

Social media: How to meet your obligations under the National Law

This guidance is to help practitioners understand and meet their obligations under the National Law when using social media.

Information for practitioners who provide virtual care

Information for practitioners about National Boards’ expectations of how practitioners will use virtual care in their practice to deliver safe and effective virtual care services.

Managing health records

Eight National Boards (Chiropractic, Medical Radiation Practice, Nursing and Midwifery, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy and Podiatry) have developed or approved for use resources to help practitioners better understand and meet their health record management obligations. There are two resources, a summary of the guidance about record management in the shared Code of Conduct or the Nurses/Midwives Codes of Conduct and a self-reflective tool to help practitioners to assess the adequacy of their record keeping and management practises.

LGBTIQA+ Communities

We are committed to being a safe regulator for LGBTIQA+ health practitioners, as well as contributing to health equity and access to safe healthcare for LGBTIQA+ people. Visit this page for information on your rights, responsibilities, and our commitment.

 
 
Page reviewed 2/09/2025