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.
Primary Times Submission Guidelines
Primary Times is APNA's semi-annual publication for primary health care nurses and key stakeholders. Please click here to download the guidelines outlining article submission requirements:
Deadlines
The deadline for submissions is nine weeks prior to publication. Please contact the editor to negotiate an extension, as some flexibility can be afforded.
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Deadline for Winter 2026 Edition - 10 April 2026
Please submit your ideas to editor@apna.asn.au.
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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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