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The Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) aims to provide its members with a wide range of information and services. We are working hard to expand these services over time and would appreciate any suggestions on the below email.

Our website remains the main communication and information source for members and has become the sole organisation representing and supporting Australian Nurse Practitioners.

It is also a gateway to more than 400 ACNP members representing Nurse Practitioners, Candidate Nurse Practitioners and nurses and allied health professionals that are interested in the Nurse Practitioner role. The ACNP has evolved over the years becoming the only national college for Nurse Practitioners with an annual conference, quarterly newsletter and educational days shared between state branches.

ACNP is a corporate member of:

  • The College of Nursing
  • National Prescribing Service
  • Coalition of National Nursing Organisations
  • Australian Health Care Reform Alliance

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Nurse practitioners emerge by degrees

6 Minutes.com.au 6 Feb 2009

With no end in sight to the medical workforce shortage, the Northern Territory has become the latest area to try fill the gap by setting up degree courses for nurse practitioners.The first intake of 14 nurses will take up their places next month at Charles Darwin University (CDU) on a new program developed with Federal Government's indigenous intervention program in mind. The university says it hopes the nurse practitioner degree program will "provide NT with more highly skilled and knowledgeable health care professionals able to provide the complex care required in many remote communities," according to Professor Sandra Dunn, course co-ordinator.

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