Continuing Professional Education
The Australian Nursing Federation has developed best practice on-line continuing professional development (CPD) for all nurses and midwives in Australia.
CPE is the ANF’s solution for your professional education needs to allow you to fulfil the NMBA’s standard relating to continued professional development. Your CPD couldn’t be in better hands than the ANF.
Telehealth
Telehealth tutorials 1 and 2 are now available on the ANF CPE website. Tutorial 1 is an introduction to Telehealth and tutorial 2 covers Medicare eligibility. Tutorial 3 will be coming soon, there are a total of 9 tutorials in the course. Please note that these tutorials are FREE to ANF, NSWNMA and QNU members.
Members and non-members can log in below and view the Telehealth courses.
From 1 June Members will have access to 2 more tutorials for free
New tutorials added for free
With the existing free hand hygiene (1 CPE hour), ANF members will have 11 free CPD hours towards your required 20 minimum hours per year.
- Manual handling – 5 CPE hours
- Infection control – 5 CPE hours
Find out more about CPD and the AHPRA CPD standard.
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20 hours per year |
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20 hours per year |
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| View an example of a Continuing Professional Education Record. |
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ANF, NSWNA and QNU Members For members of the ANF, NSWNMA or QNU – you can access your Continuing Professional Education topics at a reduced rate of $7.70 per topic. Members also receive a free ANF professional portfolio where topics undertaken through the CPE website are automatically entered on completion of assessments. There is also provision for CPD undertaken outside of the CPE website to be entered manually by the member to create a comprehensive portfolio for NMBA audit requirements. |
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Non-Members Non-members can access all online Continuing Professional Education topics for $30.00 for each topic. Non-members do not get access to the ANF CPE online record or the free tutorials which count towards your CPD. Why not join the ANF and benefit? |
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CPD Guide
Utilise your portfolio, training and work experience – do you know that the following experiences count towards your CPD?
- Mentoring in the workplace
- Reading nursing articles (including articles in the ANJ)
- Research
There is a for a full list of NMBA approved CPD items provided for you on the main page of the CPE website.
Don’t get the ANJ? – Subscribe now. Nursing articles in the ANJ can count towards your annual CPD.
Aged Care Training Room
The ANF has launched the online Aged Care Training Room, which provides aged and community care nurses with the opportunity to remotely meet their continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for national registration. The virtual training ‘room’ is accessible to anyone in Australia or the world who wants to further their professional education online. Find out more
Contact Us
At the ANF we value your input and feedback. We are committed to providing best quality continuing professional education. This is your website, and your union.
For any inquiries regarding Continuing Professional Education please contact:
Jodie Davis, ANF Federal Education Officer
Email: cpe@anf.org.au
You can also send your comments and feedback via this form.
Interested in writing education material for the ANF?
- It counts towards your CPD;
- Helps other nurses and midwives to undertake their CPD;
- Share your expertise and passion with other nurses and midwives.
If you would like to contribute please fill in this form.