Online course · Australia
Conduct, Scope, Records, CPD and Accountability Under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board's Standards
Registration makes accountability personal: the standards follow the practitioner, not the service. This course helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners meet the Board's registration standards and capabilities, work safely under protocols and standing orders, and keep records that show their authority and reasoning.
The course explains professionalism as personal accountability, how standards are used when concerns arise and how to use the Professional capabilities for a self-audit. It then covers registration obligations through the year: renewal and declarations, events you must report within seven days and indemnity insurance.
Recency, scope changes and CPD evidence are covered in practical detail. A section on practice plans, protocols, delegation and supervision explains credentialing and clinical governance, working under protocols, standing orders and verbal orders, and supervising others. Documentation lessons cover protocol-based and medicines care, corrections and late entries, retention, access requests and leaving a service.
The final sections deal with conduct inside and outside work, reliability and handover, conflicts of interest and secondary work, incidents and a just culture, cooperating with regulators and moving between services and jurisdictions.
After checkout the course is added to My Courses in your account, so you can start straight away on any device with a modern browser.
Move through 7 sections (21 lessons in total) in your own time; lessons open in sequence and the player remembers where you stopped on that device.
Each section ends with key points and prompts for reflection. Your notes can be downloaded as a Word course pack or printed for your portfolio.
Sit the 15-question assessment at the end. Score 80% or more (12 of 15) to pass; answer options are reshuffled if you retake.
Complete the reflective account and feedback to finish. Your certificate of completion shows the estimated learning time (about 2 hours), and you record the time you actually spend in your CPD log.
8 sections · About 2 hours · 15-question final assessment
The revised standard took effect on 15 July 2026. For this Board it adds consideration of the impacts of racism and systemic inequity; disclosure duties are unchanged. The course explains what this means at renewal.
Yes. It explains working under protocols, standing orders and telephone or verbal orders, and how to document medicines care so your authority is clear.
Yes. A lesson covers moving between services and jurisdictions, including differences in medicines authority and what to check before you start.
This course covers standards, registration obligations, scope, CPD and records; the ethics course covers reasoning through hard decisions.
You receive a certificate of completion stating the estimated learning time, and you can download a course pack holding your learning record, a revision sheet and your own reflections. Your CPD log should show the time you actually spend.
Not automatically. Where a Board has set education as a condition or undertaking, the course usually has to be nominated and accepted first, so check with Ahpra or the Board, and your legal adviser or defence organisation, before you enrol.
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