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Digital Health
Primary health care nurses are key contributors to a digitally competent health system and prioritising the use of digital health technologies to improve service delivery and health outcomes is a key focus for primary healthcare. APNA continues to drive the growth of nurse capabilities and confidence to influence a constantly evolving national digital health system for safe, effective care for people.
2025 APNA Nurse Transformers Project
Digital Health Nurse Transformers
At APNA, we want to support nurses to grow their capabilities and confidence to use digital health tools to ensure safe and effective care for people. This is why APNA is collaborating with the Australian Digital Health Agency to transform how we use digital health in practice and ensure that digital platforms like My Health Record, electronic prescriptions and telehealth services are used routinely in primary health care.
Expressions of interest are now open for our 2025 Nurse Transformers program. Click the link below to find out more.
Find out how to become a 2025 Nurse transformer
Want to know more? We are hosting a lunchtime information session on the 28th of April 2025 at 1:00pm where we'll discuss the program in more detail and answer any questions you may have.
REGISTER TO ATTEND OUR LUNCHTIME INFORMATION SESSION
My Health Record
My Health Record (MyHR) is a secure online summary of key patient health information. It is immediately accessible and can be used to assist nurses to access information they need, to make more informed choices when caring for their patients.
The My Health App is a secure and convenient way for Australians to view key health information that has been uploaded to an individual's My Health Record.
- APNA Nurses Margaret Dempsey and Jane Bollen explain the benefits of the my health app (Video 5:22 minutes)
- Learn more about connecting to my health
- Digital Health in Residential Aged Care - Learn more and watch an introductory video (5:40 mins)
National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework
Developed by the Australian Digital Health Agency and Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), in collaboration with APNA and other peak body organisations, the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework outlines the capabilities required to support individuals and organisations in extending their digital health development. The framework outlines core skills, knowledge and behaviours required for professional practice across five domains, and should be used as a resource to guide individuals, employers and educators to help support professional development and planning and to identify areas where knowledge gaps exist.
- Digital Professionalism: Professional standards are maintained in the digital environment
- Leadership and Advocacy: Digital health leadership and advocacy supported by clear policy
- Data and Information Quality: Data quality must be present
- Information-enabled Care: Care must be supported by rigorous data analysis and critical appraisal
- Technology: Technology needs to be understood and used appropriately
We have created 2 mini episodes from our APNA president Karen Booth explaining:
- How nurses can use the framework to ascertain their own level of digital health knowledge, and to identify where knowledge gaps exist.
- Provides practical examples of ways that digital technologies are used to streamline patient care.
- Part 1: What is the framework (2:37)
- Part 2: Digital health benefits (2:00)
- Show us how you are using the framework in our 3 minute survey
Also in this section
Digital Health Learning and Case Studies
Expand your knowledge, understanding and use of digital health tools and technologies by accessing a range of Digital Health education specifically designed for nurses and midwives.
Nurse DIGEST webinar series
Nurse DIGEST webinars explore useful digital technologies designed to enhance your daily practice. Sessions are only 30 minutes long and recordings of past events are available.
Knowledge Hub
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Primary Times - Summer 2024-5
- APNA expands its presence in healthcare reform
- Strong values and strong progress
- Highlights from the 2024 Essential Health Summit and Festival of Nursing
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- Four quick questions
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- The tyranny of distance
- From the city to the outback
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- Ending Gender Bias
- A rewarding transition to primary health care nursing
- Career evolution
- caring@home
- Driving change through collaboration
- Next Practice Deakin
- Forensic care
- Thunderstorm asthma in Australia
- Primary Times Summer 24-5 References
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Primary Times Winter 2024
- Maximising primary health care nurses
- Celebrating excellence
- Unlocking sustainable rural health futures
- Comprehensive healthcare in remote WA communities
- An unexpected journey to nurse practitioner
- Insights for advocacy and change
- Inspiring change through quality nurse placements
- High impact lifestyle medicine is transforming patients lives
- Australia’s new cardiovascular guideline and calculator in practice
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- Primary Times Winter 2024 References
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Primary Times Summer 2023-24
- The future of PHC nursing - Nurses as the champions of change
- APNA’s Workforce Survey - The times they are a’ changing
- APNA’s Aged Care Student Nurse Placement Program
- APNA steams ahead with its advocacy work
- Highlights from the 2023 APNA Festival of Nursing
- APNA Supports Singapore Study Tour
- Momentum is building – but more progress to come
- Transition to Practice goes global
- PT summer 2024 references
- Study Tour Projects
- Shining lights of primary health care nursing
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- Empower your patients to build healthier habits
- Culturally safe sharing of knowledge
- Nursing and the law - How to protect yourself
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- Disability advocacy - Standing up for the choices and rights of people with disability
- Break a leg – Not good luck if it’s osteoporosis!
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Primary Times Winter 2023
- Social prescribing
- Sharing the care
- Working effectively in primary health with people who inject drugs
- Nurses transforming digital health: From idea to action
- WA’s first paramedic private practice model
- Quality dementia care must be prioritised
- School nurses – Transitioning to practice
- Introducing the new my health app!
- Building PHC nurses’ confidence to implement CISS in the workplace
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- APNA Workforce Survey 2022 - Influencing policy and practice
- Supporting rural primary care
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- Primary retrieval nursing with the Royal Flying Doctor Service
- A quick guide to smoking cessation care for primary health care nurses
- Expanding nurse clinics across PHC settings
- It’s been a busy 6 months advocating for PHC nurses
- CEOs report - APNA’s impact continues to increase
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Primary Times, Summer 2022-23
- Kickstart closure of hard-to-heal wounds
- Victoria’s information sharing reforms: What do PHC nurses need to know?
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- APNA hit the road in 2022
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- The future of PHC nursing - Get ready for an explosive growth in technology
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- Supporting the families of seriously ill patients
- Hosting student nurses - Peter Irving supervises student nurses in a regional general practice
- The 'mature minor' - What to consider when an adolescent requests a COVID-19 vaccination against their parents’ wishes
- Helping patients achieve type 2 diabetes remission
- Care factor: The real-life benefits of putting nurses in charge
- Tackling Australia’s leading risk factor for heart attack: New report and practical tools for high cholesterol
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Primary Times, Winter 2022
- The Healthy Male Partner’s Guide - What to do when your partner’s health impacts you
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- Prioritising CVD risk assessment and management for at-risk patient groups
- School nurses – the secret superheroes
- APNA comes of age! Celebrating 21 years of professional support and advocacy for primary health care nurses
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- Student nurse placements: Everyone wins!
- Practical uses of My Health Record in aged care
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- How to read the Nurses Award 2020
- Code Red: We need climate action now for a healthy future
- Strength in primary health care nurses, despite adversity
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- What’s in a name? Reframing our language to better support patients living with chronic conditions
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Summer 2021-2
- New training for nurses: End of Life Law for Clinicians
- Are you prepared for CVD prevention in a post-COVID world?
- Congratulations and thanks to all nurses who are continuing the fight against COVID-19
- Cancer care during COVID
- Strategies for a stronger primary health care workforce
- Nurses by the numbers
- Crisis response: APNA members deployed to western NSW to help fight COVID-19
- Leadership at all levels of primary health care nursing
- Every Nurse’s Business
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- Infection Prevention Helpline
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- COVID-19 ‘PulseCheck’ Survey
- Nurse clinics supporting the implementation of smoking-cessation strategies
- Nicotine vaping products for smoking cessation: what you need to know
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- A support network for primary health care practitioners: Australia’s first online contraception and abortion community of practice for PHC
- Supporting the emotional wellbeing of the health sector
- Infection prevention helpline
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2020 Spring
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- Nursing and preventive health care
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- Sugar hit
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- A dying shame
- Kimberley care
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- Shifting the focus on ageing
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