ANF Policies
- Admission to and discharge from health services
- Child care
- Competency standards and nursing and midwifery
- Conscientious objection
- Costing and staffing of nursing services
- Equal opportunity in the workplace
- Female genital mutilation
- Free trade agreements
- Harassment, discrimination 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
- Midwifery education: registered midwife
- No lifting
- Non-smoking work environment
- Nurses and midwives and hazardous and harmful use of alcohol, drugs and other substances
- Nurses and midwives working internationally
- Nursing and midwifery care
- Nursing and midwifery research
- Nursing and organisational structures
- Nursing care of the person with a terminal illness
- Nursing education: assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled)
- Nursing and midwifery education: continuing professional education
- Nursing education: enrolled nurse
- Nursing education: registered nurse
- Nursing specialisation
- Nurse and midwife practitioners
- Occupational health and safety
- Privacy
- Promoting breastfeeding
- Rehabilitation following injury or ill-health
- Residential and community aged care: staffing and standards
- Role boundaries in the provision of personal care
- Rostering
- Whistleblowing and nursing and midwifery
- Workers' compensation and rehabilitation for nurses for injured and ill nurses and midwives
- Zero tolerance on violence and aggression in the workplace
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
- Casual employment in nursing and midwifery
- Child abuse
- Collective bargaining
- Compulsory reporting for nurses, assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled) in aged care settings
- Continuing competence
- Criminal record checks for nurses, assistants in nursing and other unlicensed workers (however titled)
- Domestic violence
- Employment of undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery
- Health system reform
- Indigenous health
- Licensing of assistants in nursing and personal care assistants (however titled)
- Magnet hospitals
- Management of nursing and midwifery services
- Medicare
- Nursing in general medical practice
- Organ and tissue donation transplantation
- Peace
- Primary health care
- Public and private health services
- Quality use of medicines
- Re-entry to the nursing / midwifery workforce
- Refugees
- Resolution of nursing and midwifery practice concerns in the workplace
- Self employment
- Voluntary euthanasia
- Volunteers in health and aged care services
ANF Guidelines
- Complementary therapies in nursing and midwifery practice
- Delegation by registered nurses
- Influenza pandemic (ANF & RCNA joint guideline)
- Performance of work in the nursing and midwifery industries
- Performance review
- Re-entry to the nursing workforce
- Use of dose administration aids by nurses
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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