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.
NP Practitioner Candidate Support Packages - Open Round 2012
Nursing & Midwifery Policy is currently offering a number of Nurse Practitioner Candidate Support Packages (NPCSP) to public hospitals or health services or public aged residential care services who have commenced developing NP models in any clinical area and have an appointed NPC.
VNPP-Open Round NPCSP April 2012 Guidelines
VNPP-Open Round NPCSP April 2012 Application
Applications closed 5 May 2012.
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