Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)

Meet the real nurses behind the 2025 Primary Health Care Nurses Day campaign posters! Check out our behind-the-scenes look at how these posters came to life, and hear first hand from our nurses on the importance of primary health care nursing and what being involved in this campaign means to them.   Primary Health Care Nurses Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday of February each year, and will be celebrated this year on 5 February 2025. To find out more about the day, the campaign and how to get involved, please check out our dedicated webpage at https://lnkd.in/ghjqQjT8 #PHCNday2025

Next year is almost here! Make sure you complete the APNA Workforce Survey before the countdown starts, and you could be celebrating 2025 in style with one of two $1000 RedBalloon vouchers. You'll also help APNA ensure that nurses and midwives working in primary health care are valued, visible, and respected. Start the survey 👉 https://lnkd.in/g6GyiydT

APNA today submitted our 2025 Pre-Budget Submission to the Treasury. The document sets out how nurses are key to improving health access and health outcomes in Australia and makes the case for funding four practical solutions that will improve primary health care for all. You can read our submission in full on our website. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8rphTgV #NursesAreTheSolution #ScopeOfPractice #Nurses

Six Sri Lankan students are now better equipped to complete their education thanks to APNA's regular donation of decommissioned laptops to Melbourne charity Friends of Lanka. The charity is dedicated to supporting the education of disadvantaged school and university students in rural parts of Sri Lanka who are at high risk of dropping out, giving them hope for a brighter future.

There are just two weeks left to complete this year's APNA Workforce Survey. Thank you to all the nurses and midwives around Australia who have completed it so far. Your voices will be heard loud and clear in 2025. If you've not yet taken part, take a break and take it off your to-do list today. You could win one of two $1000 RedBalloon vouchers! Start the survey now 👉 https://lnkd.in/g6GyiydT

Calling all experienced nurses and nurse practitioners! Do you: - Work in a mental health role? - Have an interest in giving back to the next generation of nurses? - Want to build your leadership, coaching and communication skills? We're looking for mentors for the National Pathways to Mental Health Practice Program. The program is supported by four leading Australian universities, run by APNA and funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care. As a mentor, you’ll provide 20 hours of mentoring over six months and receive $1200 for your expertise and time. Apply now to support nurses in our February intake! https://lnkd.in/gKpYQHbM

In a move that will improve access to essential health care and empower nurses to work to a broader scope of practice, Registered Nurses with appropriate qualifications will now be able to prescribe approved medicines when supervised by an authorised health practitioner. The agreement to endorse a scheduled medicines and associated registration standard for Registered Nurse Prescribers was announced at last week's Health Ministers Meeting in Hobart. "This will be a game changer for enhancing access to care and, in particular, medication management", says APNA President Karen Booth. "For General Practice in particular it will help enhance team-based care -enabling general practice teams to more effectively use their registered nurses." "Nurses are already well placed and supporting their regular patients with medication management and care advice as part of chronic condition care monitoring and management. Incorporating RN prescribing will enhance team care and improve access for many patients." #nursesarethesolution #nurses #trusted

Haven't completed the APNA Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Survey yet because you aren't sure you work in primary health care? It's simple - if you work outside the four walls of a hospital, you work in primary health care, and we want to hear from you! Grab a coffee, take a break, answer the questions, and help ensure that governments and policymakers see you as visible, valued, and respected. As a thank you for your time, all completed surveys are entered into the draw to win one of two $1000 RedBalloon vouchers. But don't wait too long - the survey closes on 31 December. Start the survey today 👉https://lnkd.in/g6GyiydT #nurses #midwives #primaryhealthcare #healthcare #RegisteredNurses #EnrolledNurses #agedcare

In case you missed it, all APNA Workforce Surveys completed this week will go into the draw to win a special bonus prize - one of three places in our Principles of Chronic Disease Management virtual workshops, worth $199 each! You can finish that survey you've saved for later or start from scratch. Either way, if you complete it by 11:59 pm (AEDT) on Sunday, you could be a winner. You could also win one of two $1000 RedBalloon vouchers drawn once the survey closes at the end of the year. Start the survey today 👉 https://lnkd.in/g6GyiydT #nurses #midwives #primaryhealthcare

Last week was a big one for APNA!   Alongside leaders from other nursing and midwifery organisations, our President, Karen Booth, and CEO, Ken Griffin, were busy in Canberra, meeting with politicians to tell them how Australia’s nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives are skilled, trusted, experienced, safe and ready to do so much more.    The launch of this joint campaign is the first time in over 40 years that we've come together to form an alliance and campaign for meaningful primary health care reform. Why? We want to unleash the potential of our primary health care workforce to work to their full scope of practice and improve access to quality and affordable health care for all Australians, no matter where they live. #nursesandmidwivesarethesolution