APNA Online Learning
Learning on the go with APNA online learning
- APNA Online Learning
- Chronic Disease Management and Healthy Ageing Program
- Nursing Australia Podcast
- Transition to Practice Program available to nurses and organisations
- APNA Education Bursary Bundles
- APNA Conference Roadshow
- Nurse Know-How video series
- Primary Care Data Quality Foundations
- Events Calendar
- Foundations of General Practice Nursing Workshops
- Timely Diagnosis of Dementia
- APNA Endorsement Program
- APNA Endorsed CPD
- Scholarships, bursaries and grants
- APNA CPD Portal
- Study options
- National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
- National Conference
- What is primary health care nursing?
- Professional indemnity insurance
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- GPHN Nurse Clinic Project
- APNA Advisory Nurse Panel
- Chronic Disease Management and Care Planning Education for CVC Program Nurses
- Communities of Practice
- Chronic Heart Failure Nurse Clinics
- Consultations and submissions
- Risk Prevention Nurse Clinic project
- Advocacy
- APNA position statements
- Salary and conditions
- Nurses Award (Industrial)
- APNA Workforce Survey
- Covid PulseCheck Surveys
- Building Nurse Capacity - Project background
- Nursing in Primary Health Care Program
- APNA Student Nurse Placement Program
What is primary health care nursing?
Primary health care is any medical service that is provided outside the four walls of a hospital, including general practice, aged care, schools, community health and other primary health care settings. Primary health care nurses play a critical role in keeping people healthy, providing proactive care and health promotion to keep Australians well.
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Are you getting the most out of your nursing workforce?
June 2018. Australia faces a shortfall of 38,000 nurses in the primary health care sector by 2030, if industry stakeholders remain apathetic about workforce retention and recruitment.
Improving patient outcomes – Primary health care nurses working to the breadth of their scope of practice
September 2017. APNA Position Statement: Nurses working to their full scope of practice as part of an interdisciplinary team can enable more integrated, efficient and accessible healthcare. September 2017.
Where current and future nurses can explore the world of primary health care
Working in primary health care offers a diverse, dynamic and fulfilling career with opportunities to evolve professionally and make a difference. Visit MyNursingFuture.com.au to explore roles, professional development guidance, complete a career quiz, and undertake the self-assessment based on the framework.
Here is how you pump up the volume - The trifecta of improving primary healthcare
May 2018. A collaborative healthcare approach with nurses at the helm of managing patient care is not a new concept. Yet this alternate model of care is neither well understood nor fully embraced by the primary health sector.APNA member benefits
