Policies, guidelines & position statements

We develop national policies, guidelines and position statements for nursing, midwifery, health and social justice which outline the evidence-base and ANMF’s position to provide guidance to members for their practice and at their workplaces.

ANMF Policies

  • Admission to and discharge from health services

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  • Assistants in Nursing

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  • Breastfeeding

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  • Bullying in the workplace

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  • Care of the person with a life limiting illness

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  • Child care

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  • Climate change

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  • Conscientious objection

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  • Digital health

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  • Equal opportunity in the workplace

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  • Fatigue prevention

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  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

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  • Free trade agreements

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  • Health and the environment

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  • International recruitment of nurses and midwives

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  • Mental health nursing

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  • Midwifery

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  • Midwifery education: midwife

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  • Midwifery practice

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  • Nurse practitioners

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  • Nurses and midwives working internationally

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  • Nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing and harmful use of alcohol and other drugs

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  • Nursing and midwifery education: continuing professional development

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  • Nursing and midwifery research

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  • Nursing and midwifery within organisational structures

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  • Nursing education: enrolled nurse

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  • Nursing education: registered nurse

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  • Nursing practice

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  • Nursing specialty

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  • Prevention of occupational violence and aggression in the workplace

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  • Prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace

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  • Residential and community aged care services: staffing and standards

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  • Role boundaries in the provision of personal care

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  • Rostering

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  • Safe patient handling

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  • Safe staffing of nursing and midwifery services

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  • Smoke-free work environment

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  • Standards for practice for nurses and midwives

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  • Vaccination and immunisation

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  • Whistleblowing

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  • Work health and safety

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  • Workers' compensation and rehabilitation for injured and ill nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing

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  • Workplace stress prevention

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Position Statements

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

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  • Administration of medicines

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  • Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

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  • ANMF representatives on national committees

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  • Assistants in nursing providing aspects of nursing care

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  • Care for people living with disability

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  • Casual employment in nursing, midwifery and care work

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  • Child abuse and neglect

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  • Clinical (reflective) supervision for nurses and midwives

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  • Collective bargaining

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  • Compulsory reporting of abuse in aged care settings for nurses and assistants in nursing

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  • COVID-19 Vaccination

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  • Credentialling for nurses and midwives

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  • Criminal history checks for nurses and midwives and assistants in nursing caring for people in aged care settings

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  • Domestic and family violence

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  • Employment of undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery

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  • Harm minimisation

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  • Management of nursing and midwifery services

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  • Maternal child and family health nursing

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  • Medical Practice Assistants

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  • Medicare

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  • Medicinal Cannabis

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  • Midwifery staffing for care of the newborn

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  • Nursing and midwifery in general practice

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  • Organ and tissue donation for transplantation

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  • Peace

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  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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  • Primary health care

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  • Professional practice framework for nurses and midwives

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  • Public and private health services

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  • Quality use of medicines

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  • Re-entry to the nursing and midwifery workforce

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  • Refugees and asylum seekers

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  • Registered nurse and midwife prescribing

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  • Registration of assistants in nursing

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  • Resolution of nursing and midwifery practice concerns in the workplace

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  • Self employment/private practice

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  • Sexuality, sex and gender diversity

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  • Specialling in clinical care settings

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  • The use of dose administration aids by nurses

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  • Voluntary assisted dying

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Guidelines

  • Consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and representative organisations

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  • Delegation by registered nurses

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  • Nurses, midwives and the support staff role

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  • Performance review

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  • Use of social media and online networking

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We welcome your comments and feedback

ANMF policies, position statements and guidelines are regularly reviewed and updated.