Nursing:
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The Australian Nurses Federation is the national union for nurses and the largest nurses’ organisation in Australia.

The Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations (ARCHI) is a unique national information and networking service for health professionals.

ARCHI supports innovation in health care delivery by disseminating resources and fostering connections between health care providers and service managers who are involved in implementing change.

Search for the meanings of medical terms or abbreviations or search Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) sheets for information on medicines.

Site contains news, articles, publications and discussion forums on all aspects of midwifery.

"Welcome to Australia’s Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal. It has been developed to help Australian clinicians and policy-makers access high quality, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines via a single entry point."

Victorian Government site for multilingual translations of health support documents, and includes a language translator to look up words.

MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

Learn more about the different types of psychosis-spectrum disorders, phases of assessment, treatment, and recovery

Learn more about the different types of psychosis-spectrum disorders, phases of assessment, treatment, and recovery

Australian Capital Territory Health Department

The AIHW develops, collects, analyses and reports information on a broad range of health and welfare issues in Australia.

Linked from a list of top 10 regional causes of death globally. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. University of Washington

For Information on the Children’s Services Regulations 1998 and the Children’s Services Act 1996. ALII is a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.

" The Australian College of Midwives is a national, not-for-profit organisation that serves as the peak professional body for midwives."

AHPRA is the organisation responsible for the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme across Australia.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council is a peak body which facilitate a national approach to nursing and midwifery regulation.

The Australian Nurses Federation is the national union for nurses and the largest nurses’ organisation in Australia.

Functions of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia include: registering practicing and student nurses and midwives; developing standards, codes and guidelines; handling notifications, complaints, investigations and disciplinary hearings; and assessing overseas trained practitioners.

Palliative Care Australia aims to provide a national forum for the exchange of ideas and information on matters relating to hospice and palliative care and to encourage the dissemination of information to the general community and to professional, para-professional and volunteer care givers through education and community awareness programmes

Royal College of Nursing is the peak national professional organisation for Australian nurses.

The Royal District Nursing Service is the largest and oldest provider of home nursing and health care services in Australia. It provides 24 hour a day nursing care to people in their homes, schools and workplaces.

Peter Mac is Australia’s foremost cancer centre providing quality treatment and support to patients and their families. Cancer Centre, Peter Mac provides quality treatment and support to patients and in the community through multi-disciplinary partnerships, research and education.

Cancer Council Australia the Australian Government and other bodies on practices and policies to help prevent, detect and treat cancer.

The Oncology Nursing Society is a professional organisation of registered nurses and other health care providers dedicated to excellence in patient care, education, research and administration in oncology nursing.

COSA is the peak national body representing health professionals whose main work is cancer control.

Aged and Community Services Australia is the national peak body in Australia representing over 1,100 church and charitable and community based organisations providing accommodation and care services to over 700,000 older people, people with a disability and their carers.

Carers Australia is the national peak body representing Australia’s carers, advocating on behalf of Australia’s carers to influence policies and services at a national level. It works collaboratively with partners and its member organisations, the network of state and territory Carers Associations, to deliver a range of essential national carer services.

The Department of Health provides a range of useful information on contacts and services available to assist you with ageing and aged care issues.

"CareSearch is an online resource of palliative care information and evidence. All materials included in this website are reviewed for quality and relevance." Funded by Department of Health & Ageing, created in collaboration with Flinders University.