Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales

We are all becoming increasingly aware of trauma – experienced by communities, people receiving our nursing and midwifery care, and by ourselves in our professional work and our everyday lives. Trauma affects our health and wellbeing. It can be life long and go on to...

Kerryn Boland PSM, Community Member NMC Kerryn Boland joined the Council in 2018 as one of three community members. In this interview she shares the unique perspective community members bring to the Council and what she has learnt about the nursing and midwifery...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW has published a video that provides an overview of the performance assessment process. A performance assessment is a confidential process that provides an independent assessment of a practitioner’s professional performance. The...

Changes to the requirement for nurses and midwives to make mandatory notifications came into effect on 1 March 2020. As registered health practitioners, nurses and midwives are mandatory notifiers and must make a notification in specified circumstances. Mandatory...

Kate shares what has surprised her about working in regulation and her view on the biggest challenges facing nurses and midwives at work.

A new study by Cowin et al in the International Nursing Review explored Australian nurses’ and midwives’ familiarity with the newly revised Codes of Conduct (2018) for nurses and for midwives and what it means to them. A total of 136 nurses and midwives from an acute...