Endorsement Applications - Nurse Practitioner

Over recent years, the role of the nurse practitioners has become an integral part of many health services in Victoria and Australia. Nurse Practitioners are clinical and professional leaders in their chosen specialty. They work within acute health services, community based clinics and organisations and the private sector.

The title of nurse practitioner (NP) is a protected title under the Health Professions Registration Act 2005. Only nurses who have successfully completed the NP endorsement process are entitled to call themselves nurse practitioners.

Becoming a nurse practitioner is akin to expanding your scope of practice. The Board’s Guidelines: Scope of Nursing & Midwifery Practice for expanding scope of practice, provide a framework to develop the role within an organisation.

Nurse practitioners are endorsed under a particular category. Each category has a list of drugs approved by the Minister of Health. A NP can prescribe any drugs off this list that are within their individual scope of practice.

The following information sheets and other documents provide information about the NP endorsement process and role development.

Please contact the NBV on accreditation@nbv.org.au if you still have questions after reviewing this information.

Further Information

	Information Sheet Number 1 – What is a Nurse Practitioner?
	Information Sheet Number 2 – How do I become a Nurse Practitioner?
	Information Sheet Number 3 – Applying for endorsement;
	Information Sheet Number 4 – Preparing for the oral examination: These sheets are made available to those preparing for endorsement. Please contact the Board at accreditation@nbv.org.au if you are about to submit a copy for endorsement.
	Information Sheet Number 5 – Endorsement oral examination: These sheets are made available to those preparing for endorsement. Please contact the Board at accreditation@nbv.org.au if you are about to submit a copy for endorsement.
	Information Sheet Number 6 – Maintaining your endorsement as a nurse practitioner: This sheet is made available to all endorsed NPs. For further information please contact the Board at accreditation@nbv.org.au.
	Nurse Practitioner Endorsement Process;
	Process for Applying for Equivalence of Qualification for Nurse Practitioner Endorsement;
	Application - Nurse Practitioner Endorsement;
	Application - Mutual Recognition - Nurse Practitioner Endorsement
	Accredited Courses Which May Lead to Endorsement on Division 1 of the Register as a Nurse Practitioner;
	Current Nurse Practitioner Statistics
	Categories and Formularies;
	Nurse Practitioner Information Workshops.