Titles of Nurses in Australia

on March 18, 2010 - 6 Comments
Categories: General Nursing Stuff

Confused about different types and titles of Nurses in Australia?

Want to know the differences between an AIN, PCA, RN, EN, EEN, NP etc etc?

How long does it actually take to reach each qualification in Australia?

Find out a bit more about Categories of Nurses in Australia by checking out the new Australian Nursing Categories page.

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  1. Peter McCartney
    March 25, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Hi! Just popped in for a moment while I take a break from painting the house! Did you catch wind of the news: “Midwives will be able to provide Medicare-funded care for the first time under a dramatic but controversial reform passed by parliament?” Informative article BTW! I just wonder what they’ll call these midwives? NP’s?

  2. Ross
    March 25, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Thanks Peter, appreciate you bringing this to my attention.
    I’ve written about the changes to law in this post here.

  3. Peter McCartney
    March 26, 2010 at 2:11 am

    No worries! Saint Raymond Nonnatus, the patron Saint of Midwives and a male at that, would be over the moon about this!

  4. @rdjfraser
    April 4, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    In Canada we have a lot of different titles as well. RN (registered nurse), RPN/LPN (Registered/Licensed Practical Nurse), PN (Psychiatric Nurse), NP (nurse practitioner), and the list goes on. The tricky part is different provinces use a few different names for the same level of practice, it can be a bit confusing.
    -Rob

  5. cro nurse
    August 3, 2010 at 8:09 am

    well ,in Croatia we have only one name “a nurse”,and we do everything,nursing care,feeding,giving therapy oral,venously,sc,im,taking blood,giving blood transfusion,registration patient and discharge,and of course making coffee for our lovely doctors

  6. admin
    August 3, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Hi Cro Nurse, thanks for visiting & taking the time to comment! If you worked in Australia you can be sure that “making coffee for our lovely doctor’s” would not be very high on your list of priorities!

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