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.
Nurse DIGEST webinar series
APNA, in collaboration with the Australian Digital Health Agency, is delighted to host the Nurse DIGEST educational webinar series. The Nurse DIGEST series seeks to explore useful digital technologies designed to enhance your daily practice. Webinars are only 30-45 minutes long and many sessions include practical examples from primary health care nurses.
Recordings of past webinars
View recordings of previous Nurse DIGEST sessions:
Latest series recordings
- October 2025 Recording: New Clinical Safety Module in Digital Health eLearning - A Panel Discussion
- June 2025 Recording: Digital Health in a Residential Aged Care Home (RACH) - Improving the Resident Transfer Experience
Series Five recordings
- May 2024 Recording: New digital tools for aged care settings
- March 2024 Recording: Using My Health Record in aged care settings - view recording
- February 2024 Recording: Pathology and Diagnostic Imaging default uploads to My Health Record
- December 2023 Recording: Use of Emergency Access (break glass function) in My Health Record
Series four recordings
- May 2023 Recording: Digital technologies: your questions answered
- March 2023 Recording: New digital tools to support consumers and clinicians
- February 2023 Recording: Finding medicines information in My Health Record
- December 2022 Recording: My Health Record: alleviating pain points in primary health care
Series three recordings
- June 2022 Recording: My Health Record: Improving communication between specialists and general practice
- May 2022 Recording: Electronic prescriptions for consumers
- March 2022 Recording: Answering common questions in digital health
- February 2022 Recording: What's new in My Health Record: NASH renewals and Covid Dashboard updates
- November 2021 Recording: Missing information in My Health Record
- October 2021 Recording: Using the overview functions in My Health Record
Series two recordings
- June 2021 Recording: Utilising Digital Health Tools in Telehealth
- May 2021 Recording: Active Script List - functionality within electronic prescriptions
- April 2021 Recording: COVID Vaccine and the Role of My Health Record
- March 2021 Recording: Electronic Prescriptions - helping your patients understand
- February 2021 Recording: Getting Digital Health Ready
Series one recordings
- December 2020 Recording: Over to You! Ask the questions you want to know about My Health Record
- November 2020 Recording: How do you Use My Health Record in Practice?
- October 2020 Recording: Updating My Health Record: is the information you're seeing current?
- September 2020 Recording: Uploading to My Health Record: the nurse's role
- August 2020 Recording: Nursing Covid-19 - Viewing My Health Record
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Primary Times Summer 2025-6
- A new chapter for APNA
- Looking ahead to new opportunities
- Farewell message to APNA members
- Four quick questions
- Introducing APNA President Denise Lyons
- Training nurses on Country
- So many healthcare reviews!
- Riding the wave of health care reform
- NiPHC at 10
- Enabling factors for nurse clinics
- Crossing borders
- Enhancing the role of nurses and midwives
- Providing home-based end-of-life care
- The nurse’s role in eliminating HIV transmission
- A niche vocation
- Absorbing more than just exudate
- Balancing tech and touch
- Florence by APNA
- References
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Primary Times Winter 2025
- APNA sustains its momentum
- Reflecting on 16 years with APNA
- Lighting the way forward
- Self-determined health care for First Nations communities
- Creative Practice
- Caring for the rural community
- The APNA Workforce Survey
- Keeping it real
- PANACEA-HF
- Strengthening the nursing workforce
- Australia’s effort to eliminate hepatitis C
- Introducing the APNA Foundation
- Ask, Advise, Help
- Australian school nurses deliver life-changing care
- Bridging the Gap
- References
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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
- APNA’s Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan
- Nurses are trusted and safe: APNA secures winning deal for members with new insurance offering
- Four quick questions
- APNA Workforce Survey makes waves in primary health care
- Peer support - the missing piece in diabetes care
- Primary health care nursing in Thailand
- The tyranny of distance
- From the city to the outback
- Natalie’s journey to becoming a skin cancer nurse
- 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
- Supporting victim-survivors of family violence
- 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
- Evacuation planning - How to help vulnerable people prepare for natural disaster
- Empower your patients to build healthier habits
- Culturally safe sharing of knowledge
- Nursing and the law - How to protect yourself
- Diabetes in Australia and how primary health care nurses can help
- 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
- Improving care for people with intellectual disability - Removing barriers to general practice
- APNA Workforce Survey 2022 - Influencing policy and practice
- Supporting rural primary care
- Caring for children with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
- 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?
- HIV - Living longer and the PHC nurse’s role in care
- Primary health care nurses are not just a GP value-add
- Workforce, workforce, workforce: The biggest issue in aged care
- APNA hit the road in 2022
- APNA grows to provide more support for nurses
- Envisioning equitable health care in rural Australia
- Thargomindah Outpatients - A nurse-led clinic in remote southwest Queensland
- The future of PHC nursing - Get ready for an explosive growth in technology
- Strengthening Medicare Taskforce: How to modernise primary health care
- Nurse clinics: Optimising community access to primary health care
- 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
- Voluntary assisted dying - Andrew Denton on what it means to die well
- 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
- Nurse clinics - Improving the quality of life for people with palliative care needs
- Student nurse placements: Everyone wins!
- Practical uses of My Health Record in aged care
- Influenza pandemic planning - Preparing for winter 2022
- 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
- APNA goes from strength to strength
- Anticholinergic burden - An overlooked problem
- 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
- A team-based program providing complex care for veterans
- Infection Prevention Helpline
- Nurse cervical screening: Challenges to and opportunities for scope of practice
- COVID-19 ‘PulseCheck’ Survey
- Nurse clinics supporting the implementation of smoking-cessation strategies
- Nicotine vaping products for smoking cessation: what you need to know
- Don’t be a fossil fool: How nurses can talk about climate and health
- Could a routine blood test improve dementia outcomes, and transform care for people with symptoms and illnesses of the mind and brain?
- 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
- High-Vis nursing
- Lynne takes the lead on chronic disease
- Nurse-led service bridges health gap
- Brightening lives
- Let's eliminate racism from the health system
- COVID-19 impacts youth mental health
- Nursing and preventive health care
- Reflections on a preventable horror show
- Why I choose to work in aged care
- Let’s make life better for women
- It's time for big picture thinking
- Kate shines in testing times
- Sandy's a screen star
- Sugar hit
- In a year of sadness, it's time to focus on the guys
- The two of us
- A dying shame
- Kimberley care
- Beyond Covid, to Nurse 2022
- Shifting the focus on ageing
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Professional Indemnity Insurance
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