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Dear All
Those of you registered in NSW will have received
the Registration Board's newsletter which explained the establishment and
regulation of the Nurse Practitioner.
I find it confirming the content and direction of
ACMI accreditation in fact the latter was not only ahead chronologically it
remains more comprehensive and responsive to the "midwife practitioner" role and
demands.
The latter has a higher clinical substantiation
content and core as well as supporting/promoting innovation in demanding
reflection on practice.
I congratulate ACMI and encourage them
to nationally and in each state, particularly NSW, to seek legislative
changes or support in NSW to accompany ACMI Accreditation consistent with NHMRC
recommendation on the "Extended role of the midwife" & the NSW Nurse
Practitioner process.
According to the NSW Board's information
there are provisions within sections of the 1991 Nurses'
Act and related acts which can allow nurses and therefore
midwives to prescribe non-addictive drugs and initiate diagnostic
investigations.
So once we can take more than heart as again there
are precedents and parallel governments acts consistent with the NMAP case which
we must use in our campaign!
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