Nurse Practitioner

YOUR FIRST STOP FOR NP UPDATES AND INFORMATION

With national registration and changes resulting from the healthcare reform agenda, there have been changes to Nurse Practitioner registration and prescribing practice.

Over the coming months, this page will provide up to date information to Victorian NPs and their employers about these changes as they become known.

Round 4.9 Chronic Disease Management or Aged care models.

The most recent Victorian Nurse Practitioner Project (VNPP) funding supported model development & NPC support packages for Round 4.9 Chronic Disease Management or Aged care.

VNPP Round 4.9 NP models in chronic disease management & aged care - Guidelines (pdf, 162kb)

Applications closed 28 September 2011.

National registration changes to NP categories

From 1 July 2010, NPs working in Victoria have a notation on their registration in one of eight notation categories:
• Nurse practitioner category- Acute & Supportive Care
• Nurse practitioner category - Care of the older person or Aged care
• Nurse practitioner category - Critical care
• Nurse practitioner category - Maternity Care
• Nurse practitioner category - Mental health
• Nurse practitioner category - Paediatrics
• Nurse practitioner category - Perioperative Care
• Nurse practitioner category - Primary Care

For more information read the following fact sheet: Fact sheet 8 or go to: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/FAQ-and-Fact-Sheets.aspx

Prescribing authorisations for NPs

All approved drugs and medicine lists were published in the Government Gazette and are available at: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/dpu/prescriber/nurse.htm

NMBA endorsement standards for NPs

NMBA has published the approved registration standard for endorsement as a NP. For more information go to: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Registration-Standards.aspx

Applications for NP endorsement after 1 July 2010

All queries need to be directed to the NMBA at: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Forms.aspx

Access to Medicare Benefits Scheme and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

For information about how to register with Medicare, go to: http://www.medicare.gov.au./provider/other-healthcare/nurse-midwives.jsp

For information about the drugs Nurse Practitioner’s can access through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme rebate, go to: www.pbs.gov.au