Online course · Australia
Applying the Board's Code, Scope and Cultural Practice in Community Health Settings
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners often live in the communities they serve, treat kin and work across clinical and cultural roles. This three-hour course applies the Board's Code of conduct and Professional capabilities to that reality.
The course starts with a profession built for and by community, the National Law, the Board and Ahpra, the registration standards and the Code and capabilities. Ethical foundations follow: ethics in two worlds, a decision-making approach for community practice, cultural safety duties and advocacy.
Scope gets a full section, explaining that there is no defined scope, how medicines law varies by jurisdiction, working with nurses and doctors and escalating safely. Consent lessons cover community settings, family and kinship, difficult conversations and patients who decline care. Boundaries lessons cover living and working in the same community, treating kin, gifts and reciprocity, and social media.
Later sections cover confidentiality when everyone knows everyone, privacy law, records, Medicare and honest claiming, mandatory notifications, child protection and family violence reporting, lateral violence, cultural load, wellbeing, CPD, supervising and leading, and new challenges such as virtual care.
Enrol online and the course appears under My Courses in your Probity Courses account, ready to open on a computer, tablet or phone.
Work through 8 sections and 32 short lessons in order, at your own pace. Your place is saved in the browser you use, so you can stop and come back.
Use the key points, scenarios and reflection prompts in each section, and write your own notes as you go; they stay with your course pack.
Finish with a 20-question final assessment. You need 16 correct answers (80%) to pass, and you can retake it after a short pause if needed.
Write your reflective account, submit the short feedback form and your completion is recorded. Download a certificate of completion stating the estimated learning time (about 3 hours); record the time you actually spend.
9 sections · About 3 hours · 20-question final assessment
It explains how medicines authority depends on state and territory law and your employer's arrangements, and what to check before you act. It does not replace local legal advice or your service's policies.
Yes. A lesson looks at treating family and kin, when it may be unavoidable and how to manage it safely.
Yes. A lesson covers vexatious notifications, lateral violence and fairness.
This three-hour course combines ethics and professional standards with a focus on community practice. The two-hour courses go deeper on ethical reasoning and on registration obligations and records.
That is your call under your Board's CPD standard: you choose activities that match your scope and the learning needs in your plan. If this course fits, file the certificate of completion, record the time you actually spend and note one change you will make in practice.
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