Nursing and Midwifery Board Registration Standard Recency of Practice 1 June 2016
Nursing and Midwifery Board Registration Standard Recency of Practice 1 June 2016
Nursing and Midwifery Board Registration Standard Recency of Practice 1 June 2016
REGISTRATION STANDARD:
RECENCY OF PRACTICE
1 June 2016
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REGISTRATION STANDARD:
RECENCY OF PRACTICE
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REGISTRATION STANDARD:
RECENCY OF PRACTICE
You do not need to meet this registration standard if you past education, experience, continuing professional
are a recent graduate applying for registration for the development (CPD) activities within the past 12
first time. months, employment history for the past five years
and the role you wish to undertake, and
At renewal of registration
• following an assessment you may be required
When you apply to renew your registration, you are to complete further CPD or submit a profession
required to declare that you have complied with this development plan or/and complete a period of
registration standard. supervised practice within your scope of practice.
During the registration period • the NMBA can impose a condition or conditions
on your registration or refuse an application for
Your compliance with this registration standard may be
registration or renewal of registration, if you do not
audited from time to time. It may also be checked if the
meet a requirement in an approved registration
NMBA receives a notification about you.
standard for the profession (sections 82 and 112 of
the National Law), and
Evidence
You should retain records as evidence that you meet the • registration standards, codes or guidelines may
requirements of this standard for five years in case you be used in disciplinary proceedings against you as
are audited. evidence of what constitutes appropriate practice
or conduct for registered nurses and/or midwives
(section 41 of the National Law).
What happens if I don’t meet
this standard? Authority
If you want to continue to practise, or return to practice This registration standard was approved by the
after taking a break, and you don’t meet this standard, Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council on 27
you will need to provide information to help the NMBA August 2015.
decide whether you are able to continue to practise.
Registration standards are developed under section 38
Nurses in clinical practice of the National Law and are subject to wide-ranging
consultation.
Nurses seeking to work in clinical practice who do not
satisfy the requirement for recent clinical practice must
meet different requirements, depending on the length of Definitions
absence from practice. The NMBA’s Re-entry to practice
policy provides information about how you may retain or Clinical education means education, both theoretical
obtain registration and return to practice. and practical, that is required to prepare the nurse or
midwife to be directly involved in providing direct clinical
Nurses in non-clinical practice care or providing oversight of direct clinical care of
• If you are unable to meet the standard and you are patients.
working in non-clinical practice, you will be required
to submit a professional plan which will outline Clinical practice is when the nurse or midwife is directly
involved in providing direct clinical care or providing
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