Registered nurse

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METeOR identifier:	327182
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Proposed 16/10/2012
Definition:	Registered nurses include persons with at least a three year training certificate and nurses holding post graduate qualifications. Registered nurses must be registered with the state/territory registration board. This is a comprehensive category and includes community mental health, general nurse, intellectual disability nurse, midwife (including pupil midwife), psychiatric nurse, senior nurse, charge nurse (now unit manager), supervisory nurse and nurse educator. This category also includes nurses engaged in administrative duties no matter what the extent of their engagement, for example, directors of nursing and assistant directors of nursing.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (nurses), average NNNN.NN Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (registered nurses) Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (registered nurses), average N[NNN{.N}] Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Establishment—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (registered nurses) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Female—number of antenatal care visits, total N[N] Health, Standard 12/10/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Standardisation pending 13/12/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 22/12/2009 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Standard 30/01/2012 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 29/01/2012 Perinatal NMDS 2013-14 Health, Standard 07/02/2013 Perinatal NMDS 2014-15 Health, Candidate 14/05/2013

Registered nurse

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