The ANMF has national policies relating to nursing, health and social justice, which outline ANMF’s position and provide guidance to members in their practice and at their workplaces.
View Definitions of policies, position statements, guidelines, issues papers and fact sheets
ANMF Policies
- Admission to and discharge from health services
- Assistants in Nursing
- Breastfeeding
- Bullying in the workplace
- Care of the person with a terminal illness
- Child care
- Climate change
- Conscientious objection
- Digital health
- Equal opportunity in the workplace
- Fatigue prevention
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Free trade agreements
- Health and the environment
- International recruitment of nurses and midwives
- Mental health nursing
- Midwifery
- Midwifery education: midwife
- Midwifery practice
- Nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing and harmful use of alcohol and other drugs
- Nurses and midwives working internationally
- Nursing and midwifery research
- Nursing and midwifery within organisational structures
- Nursing and midwifery education: continuing professional development
- Nursing education: enrolled nurse
- Nursing education: registered nurse
- Nursing practice
- Nursing specialty
- Nurse practitioners
- Occupational health and safety
- Prevention of occupational violence and aggression in the workplace
- Prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace
- Residential and community aged care services: staffing and standards
- Role boundaries in the provision of personal care
- Rostering
- Safe patient handling
- Safe staffing of nursing and midwifery services
- Smoke-free work environment
- Standards for practice for nurses and midwives
- Vaccination and immunisation
- Whistleblowing
- Workers' compensation and rehabilitation for injured and ill nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing
- Workplace stress prevention
ANMF Position Statements
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- Administration of medicines
- Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
- ANMF representatives on national committees
- Assistants in nursing providing aspects of nursing care
- Care for people living with a disability
- Casual employment in nursing, midwifery and care work
- Child abuse and neglect
- Clinical (reflective) supervision for nurses and midwives
- Collective bargaining
- Compulsory reporting of abuse in aged care settings for nurses and assistants in nursing
- Credentialling for nurses and midwives
- Criminal history checks for nurses and midwives and assistants in nursing caring for people in aged care settings
- Domestic and family violence
- Employment of undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery
- Harm minimisation
- Management of nursing and midwifery services
- Maternal child and family health nursing
- Medical Practice Assistants
- Medicare
- Medicinal Cannabis
- Midwifery staffing for care of the newborn
- Nursing and midwifery in general practice
- Organ and tissue donation for transplantation
- Peace
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Primary health care
- Professional practice framework for nurses and midwives
- Public and private health services
- Quality use of medicines
- Re-entry to the nursing and midwifery workforce
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Registered nurse and midwife prescribing
- Registration of assistants in nursing
- Resolution of nursing and midwifery practice concerns in the workplace
- Self employment/private practice
- The use of dose administration aids by nurses
- Voluntary assisted dying
ANMF Guidelines
- Consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and representative organisations
- Delegation by registered nurses
- Nurses, midwives and the support staff role
- Performance review
- Use of social media and online networking
Policy Request
ANMF policies, position statements and guidelines are regularly reviewed and new policies, position statements and guidelines developed as the need arises or as a request is made. If you cannot find a policy, position statement or guideline that covers your area of inquiry, please let us know. Comments on and input into policies, position statements and guidelines are also welcome. Click here to send your comments.