ANF Policies, Position Statements and Guidelines
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ANF Policies

Admission to and discharge from health services

Child care

Conscientious objection

Costing and staffing of nursing services

Female genital mutilation

Harassment, victimisation and bullying in the workplace

Health and the environment

Information management and information technology

International recruitment of nurses and midwives

Mental health nursing care

Midwifery

Nurses and midwives working internationally

Nurses and misuse of alcohol and other drugs

Nursing and organisational structures

Nursing care

Nursing care of the person with a terminal illness

Nursing specialisation

Nurse and midwife practitioners

Occupational health and safety

Promoting breastfeeding

Rehabilitation and/or injury management following injury or ill-health at work

Research

Residential aged care: staffing and standards

Role boundaries in the provision of personal care

Rostering and nurses

Tobacco free working environment

Whistleblowing and nursing and midwifery


ANF Position Statements

Administration of medicines

ANF representatives on national committees

Assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled) providing aspects of nursing or midwifery care

Care for people living with a disability and prevention of disabilities

Casual employment in nursing and midwifery

Child abuse

Collective bargaining

Competency standards and nursing

Compulsory reporting for nurses, assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled) in aged care settings

Criminal record checks for nurses, assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled)

Domestic violence

Health system reform

Indigenous health

Licensing of assistants in nursing and personal care assistants (however titled)

Magnet hospitals

Management of nurses and midwives

Medicare

Nursing education: assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled)

Nursing education: continuing professional education

Nursing education: enrolled nurse

Nursing education: registered nurse

Nursing in general medical practice

Organ and tissue transplantation

Peace

Primary health care

Public and private health services

Quality use of medicines

Refugees

Resolution of nursing and midwifery practice problems

Self employment

Voluntary euthanasia

Volunteers in health and aged care services


ANF Guidelines

Complementary therapies in nursing and midwifery practice

Continuing competence

Delegation by registered nurses

Employment of undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery

The use of dose administration aids by nurses

Performance of work in the nursing industry

Performance review

Re-entry to the nursing workforce


RCNA, CATSIN and ANF Joint Position Statements

Assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled)

Employment of undergraduate students of nursing in a nursing setting

Indigenous Australian people and nursing education

Nursing Research


Policy Request
ANF policies, position statements and guidelines are regularly reviewed and new policies, position statements and guidelines developed as the need arises or as a request is made.  If you cannot find a policy, position statement or guideline that covers your area of inquiry, please let us know. Comments on and input into policies, position statements and guidelines are also welcome.

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