Official sources
Last checked 5 October 2026
General information only, not legal or regulatory advice; check the official NMBA page before applying.
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Ahpra and the NMBA
- Ahpra: What we do
- Ahpra: Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
- NMBA: About the Board
- NMBA: Registration standards
- NMBA: Endorsements and notations
- NMBA: Applying for registration and forms
Endorsement
- Registration standard: Endorsement as a nurse practitioner
- Guidelines for nurses applying for endorsement as a nurse practitioner
- Safety and quality guidelines for nurse practitioners
- Nurse practitioner standards for practice
- Ahpra: Standard format for curriculum vitae
- Ahpra: Certifying documents
Registration standards that apply every year
- Continuing professional development
- Understanding CPD for nurses and midwives
- Guidelines: Continuing professional development
- Recency of practice
- Professional indemnity insurance arrangements
- English language skills
- Ahpra: Accepted English language tests
Conduct and decisions
- NMBA: Professional standards, codes of conduct and code of ethics
- NMBA: Frameworks, including the Decision-making framework
Overseas-qualified nurses
Medicare and the PBS
- PBS: Nurse practitioner PBS prescribing
- MBS Online: Note MN.14.1, participating nurse practitioner services
- Department of Health and Aged Care: Collaborative arrangements
- Department of Health and Aged Care: Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan
State and territory prescribing law
- Victoria: Nurse practitioners, legislative requirements
- New South Wales: Legislation changes for nurse practitioners and endorsed nurse prescribers
- Queensland: Key legislative requirements for nurse practitioners (PDF)
- Australian Capital Territory: Nurse practitioners
- South Australia: Prescribing by non-medical healthcare professionals
- Western Australia: Department of Health
- Tasmania: Poisons Regulations 2018
- Northern Territory: Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2012 (PDF)