| Priority | Action |
|---|---|
| 1. Enhancing workforce planning, education and regulation | 1.1 Implement nationally coordinated nursing workforce data, modelling and planning |
| 1.2 Implement strategies that enhance nurses’ mobility and career flexibility | |
| 1.3 Grow the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing workforce | |
| 1.4 Research and implement the most contemporary models of delivery of pre-registration education | |
| 1.5 Facilitate students and nurses to access and complete nursing education | |
| 1.6 Adapt student employment models for all health and aged care settings | |
| 1.7 Increase transparency and improve timeliness and currency of regulatory processes and outcomes | |
| 1.8 Develop and implement a nationally consistent accreditation process for post graduate nursing education | |
| 2. Enabling nursing innovation | 2.1 Prepare and engage the nursing workforce to continue to drive the innovation and effective use of emerging technologies |
| 2.2 Create and embed funding models that drive evolution and enhancement of sustainable nursing practice | |
| 2.3 Implement nurse-led innovative models of care | |
| 2.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and communities design workforce initiatives that suit local conditions and community situations | |
| 2.4 Enable nurses to work to their optimum scope of practice in all settings | |
| 2.5 Mobilise and support the nursing workforce to lead and contribute to an environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient health and aged care system | |
| 3. Elevating the nursing profession | 3.1 Advance nursing leadership |
| 3.2 Grow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurse leadership | |
| 3.3 Adopt anti-racism initiatives in nursing | |
| 3.4 Foster a diverse, inclusive and culturally safe nursing workforce | |
| 3.5 Support internationally qualified nurses to transition into Australia’s health and aged care system | |
| 3.6 Contemporise the identity of nursing | |
| 4. Delivering a sustainable nursing workforce | 4.1 Develop a nationally consistent framework for transition of practice |
| 4.2 Develop a national nursing skills and capability framework and matrix | |
| 4.3 Develop a national professional development framework | |
| 4.4 Adopt positive practice environment standards in all settings | |
| 4.5 Build and grow nurse clinical-academic/research career pathways | |
| 4.6 Develop a rural and remote career pathway inclusive of transition of practice support | |
| 4.7 Develop models of education to allow students to study closer to home including strengthening rural nursing clinical schools and professional experience placements | |
| 4.8 Remove barriers to nurses working to their optimum scope of practice within multidisciplinary models of care in rural and remote locations |
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