Continuing competence

It is the professional responsibility of all practising nurses to maintain their competence to practise. The role of the Nursing Council is to protect the health and safety of the public by setting standards and ensuring nurses are competent to practise under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003. 

The Council has set standards for continuing competence, requires an annual declaration of continuing competence from each nurse and annually selects 5% of practising nurses to complete a recertification audit of the continuing competence requirements under section 41 of the Act