National Nursing Standards
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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Overview
National Nursing Consortium: Specialty Standards Endorsement
In April 2011 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation, College of Nurses Aotearoa, Te Ao Maramatanga (NZ College of Mental Health Nurses) and Te Kaunihera O Nga Neehi Māori o Aotearoa (National Council of Māori Nurses) formed a consortium to provide for a national endorsement process of specialty standards and knowledge and skills frameworks (KSF).
Specialty nursing groups seeking wider national recognition of their standards or KSF may make application to the consortium for this recognition. The consortium assesses applications against criteria determining specialities of practice, content requirements and process for development.
The following documents describe the Nursing Consortium: specialty standards endorsement:
National Nursing Consortium: Practice Standards Endorsement - Terms of Reference
Membership representatives of the National Nursing Consortium
Contact information
The following documents provide applicant information:
Information overview to the National Nursing Consortium: Speciality Standards Endorsement
Application for Specialty Standards Endorsement
Application for Specialty Standards Endorsement - assessment checklist