In a resource-stretched environment, it can be difficult to know where your professional responsibilities begin and end.

This course provides the knowledge and practical strategies you need to protect yourself, your colleagues, and your patients/residents – while navigating the realities of modern nursing and midwifery practice.

In this course, we will cover:

·         an overview of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Professional Practice Framework

·         AHPRA processes and outcomes

·         duty of care and negligence

·         ratios and your professional responsibilities

·         delegation of care and accountability

·         the importance of workload management

·         lessons from coronial and nursing/midwifery tribunal cases

·         developing strategies to resolve conflict between professional standards and employer directives.

This course is open to all QNMU members and provides 6 CPD hours.

As a specialist education session delivered by the peak professional and industrial body for nurses and midwives in Queensland, this course meets the requirements for Industrial Relations Education Leave (IREL). Please check your IREL entitlements in your EB agreements and (if applicable) apply for this leave as early as possible.

Registration is compulsory to attend. For more information, or enquiries, please contact QNMU Education Team on [email protected]