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**IMPORTANT NOTICE
**
Please leave after hours phone and or email,
contact details when leaving a message for WAPNA, requesting a return call.
As WAPNA is run
by volunteers, it can be extremely difficult to try and return calls during their
own working hours.
Thank you.
The Association provides a focus for practice nurses and for other groups
seeking to make contact and have dialogue with practice nurses. It facilitates
professional communication between practice nurses to break down professional isolation and
assists members with continuing professional development. The Association
develops the role of the practice nurse, liaises with other professional groups,
provides opportunities for social contact with professional colleagues and, as required,
provides expert opinion on practice nursing.
If you wish
to apply for membership, please download a copy
of the new membership application form.
28th June 2007: The membership forms have been updated to include the new annual
fee of $30 per Practice Nurse or Affiliate membership.
For those potential members who would prefer to phone for an application form,
please contact the Treasurer or
Education & Liaison Officer.
**Dec '06 - Please note that EFT facilities are now available for the payment of membership fees.**
The educational and support functions of the Association are accomplished by
providing fora for the open discussion of nursing-based ethical, professional
and practice issues and concerns, and opportunities to share practical knowledge
and experiences. The Association presents educational fora relevant to practice
in medical practices and clinics and promotes the role of the practice nurse
and the value of such nurses, whenever possible, through professional meetings
and collaboration with other groups of health professionals. It serves
as a resource and support for individual nurses and the profession on matters
related to community health care and promotes state and national networking
between practice nurses.
Membership of the Association is open to all nurses registered with the Nurses Board
of Western Australia, who are employed in doctors' surgeries (whether general practitioners,
specialists, pathology practices or private outpatients clinics),
or nurses and other persons with an interest in this area of nursing,
including students of nursing, who may be invited to become members.
Affiliate membership is now open to an individual, corporation or incorporated body interested in the work of the association.
Affiliate members will not have voting rights.
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