School Nurses Handbook
APNA developed this handbook to support school nurses. It serves as a comprehensive tool, guiding them in best practice guidelines, evidence-based practices and providing essential resources.
Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan
OUR VISION is a healthy Australia through best practice primary health care nursing.
OUR MISSION is to improve the health of Australians, through the delivery of quality, evidence-based care by a bold, vibrant and well supported primary health care nursing workforce.
Strategic plan
APNA set its five-year plan with the strategic intent of improving the health journey and wellbeing of Australians by ensuring a bold and vibrant primary health care nursing profession.
Our strategic plan is a dynamic, evolving document designed to adapt and respond to the changing primary health care environment.
Our goals
- The benefit of primary health care nursing to Australia's health is recognised in policy
- PHC Nurses are valued, visible and respected
- APNA invests in the foundation of its enduring success
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- Strengthening Medicare Taskforce: APNA’s involvement
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- Victorian nursing announcement risks general practice and aged care
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- More than 900 Calvary nurses to benefit from APNA membership
- Government must focus more on Australia’s primary health care needs
- Homegrown talent the answer to global nursing shortage
- An open letter from APNA - All nurses deserve recognition
- Top marks for primary health care student nurse program
- Next-generation of nurses impressed with primary health care
- No time for heart health education, say under-resourced nurses
- Nursing organisations condemn Morrison Government for failures in aged care
- APNA and School Nurses Australia to amalgamate
- New nursing data reveals life at the sharp end of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout
- Student Nurse Placement Program
- Doctors and Primary Care nurses join forces to strengthen rural and remote healthcare
- Telehealth extension welcomed but needs to be permanent, say nurses
- Jean Hailes and APNA partner for Women's Health Week
- APNA welcomes new Rural Health Commissioner
- APNA welcomes lower cost nursing degrees
- Nurses need a fair go for a healthier Australia
- Nurses welcome Government changes on telehealth
- Aussie celebs salute Australia's nurses
- COVID-19: Nurses need telehealth tools now
- Strong leadership is crucial for essential primary health care culture and change
- International Nurses Day 2024
- International Self-Care Day 2024
- APNA welcomes Government relief from student clinical ‘placement poverty
- New survey finds nurses ‘doing paperwork’ instead of treating patients
- 2 in 5 Primary Health Care Nurses at risk of leaving Primary Health Care
- New funding for the next generation of Australia’s primary health care nurses
- Scope of Practice Review: Issues Paper 2
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- Joint Statement: Primary Health Care Alliance - PHC Congress
- School Nurses: An investment with a lifetime of impact
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