Clinical Governance for Advanced Practice and Extended Scope of Practice Roles Policy

Version 1.4 approved 29 June 2022

Critical to building health workforce capacity and capability is the need to support all clinicians to work to their full scope of practice to effectively meet the increasing demand on our services.

The purpose of the Clinical Governance for Advanced Practice and Extended Scope of Practice Roles Policy (PDF 308KB) is to provide a robust and future focused framework of clinical governance to support registered nurses (including nurse practitioners), midwives, allied and scientific health professionals working at an advanced practice and extended scope of practice level within SA Health.

For the purpose of this Policy, advanced practice roles will not be identified separately. A mandatory instruction related to nurse practitioner roles can be found at the end of this document.

Applicability

This policy applies to all employees and contracted staff of SA Health; that is all employees and contracted staff of the Department for Health and Wellbeing, Local Health Networks (including state-wide services aligned with those Networks1) and SA Ambulance Service.