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Articles on the endorsement journey, advanced practice, CPD and the NP profession in Australia — written for current and future Nurse Practitioners.

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Why Australia's Nurse Practitioner Pathway Is Still So Clunky

Australia has had Nurse Practitioners (NPs) for a quarter of a century. We are Master's-prepared, endorsed by a national board, and able to diagnose, prescribe, request diagnostics, refer to specialists and bill Medicare in our own right. Yet when experienced registered nurses ask me about the pathway, the same sentence keeps coming back: "I want to, but I can't afford to."

EndorseMe Team16 Aug 202616 min

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Endorsed is not the same as employed: what 34 years of NP regulation actually tells us

n December 2000, two Australian nurses held nurse practitioner endorsement. By mid-2025 there were 3,194. But the share of endorsed NPs actually working in an NP role has been falling — and a new analysis in the Journal of Nursing Regulation explains why.

EndorseMe Team15 Aug 20268 min

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