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Nursing Council of New Zealand
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Annual Report 2013
Scopes of practice
The different areas of nursing in which nurses are authorised to practise are called
‘scopes of practice’. New Zealand has three scopes of nursing practice:
Enrolled nurse
Enrolled nurses practise under the direction and delegation
of registered nurses or nurse practitioners to deliver nursing
care and health education spanning health consumers in
community, residential and hospital settings.
The prescribed qualifcation for an enrolled nurse is a
Diploma in Enrolled Nursing at Level 5 on the New Zealand
Qualifcations Framework.
Registered nurse
Registered nurses utilise nursing knowledge and complex
nursing judgement to assess the health needs of and provide
care for health consumers in a range of settings from hospital
to community.
The prescribed qualifcation for a registered nurse is a
Bachelor degree in nursing at Level 7 on the New Zealand
Qualifcations Framework.
Nurse practitioner
Nurse practitioners are expert nurses who work with specifc
health consumer groups. They have advanced knowledge
and skills, and practise independently to diagnose, assess
and manage people’s health care.
The prescribed qualifcation for a nurse practitioner is a
clinically focused Master of Nursing at Level 8 on the New
Zealand Qualifcations Framework.
Full defnitions of the scopes are published on the Nursing Council website:
www.nursing council.org.nz.