Australian Nursing Educator Professional Practice Standards

The Australian Nursing Educator Professional Practice Standards 2024

The 2024 Australian Nursing Educator Professional Practice Standards (the 'Standards) consist of 3 major domains, with core standards and standard statements. New to the 2024 Standards are the 'cues' given for each standard statement to give context for the statements to help clarify the standards' statements for educators. The Standards were developed for all nursing educators, regardless of the setting in which they work, their role, or their level of experience in nursing education. When applying the Standards, educators, managers, and policymakers should consider the educational context of the nursing educator and apply those relevant to the individual practice context.

The Australian Nursing Educator Professional Practice Standards 2024 in pdf format can be download now.

Supporting documents

1) The review process and results have been published and are available via an Open Access link here. 
A Delphi method (consensus through experts' opinions and feedback) was used for the review process, which sought to obtain agreement from nursing educators to the 2010 Standards and included electronic surveys completed by a nursing educator expert panel and Zoom focus groups with other nursing educators.  

Citation

Taylor, C., Mitchell, C., Kaneko, H., Foley, B., & Shaw, J. (2024). Review of the Australian nurse teacher professional practice standards: An e-Delphi study. Nurse Education in Practice, 79, 104045-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104045

2) A scoping review was undertaken to compare the Australian standards with international nursing educator standards, to identify commonalities, differences and gaps. This has been published and is available via an Open Access link here. 

Citation

Taylor, C., Mitchell, C., Kaneko, H., Foley, B., & Shaw, J. (2024). Characteristics of nursing educators’ professional competency standards: A scoping review. Nurse Education in Practice, 80, 104130-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104130

(Last updated 5 Nov 2024)