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Registered health professional—principal area of practice, nursing code NN

Definition

The area of nursing practice in which a nurse spent the most hours in their main job in the week prior to registration, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Registered health professional—principal area of practice, nursing code NN

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Area of nursing practice code NN ".
Data Type Number
Format NN
Maximum character length 2
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 01 Aged care
02 Child and family health
03 Community health
04 Critical care and emergency
05 Education
06 Management
07 Medical
08 General practice/Medical practice
09 Mental health
10 Midwifery
11 Paediatrics
12 Peri-operative
13 Rehabilitation and disability
14 Research
15 Surgical
16 Other
Supplementary Values 99 Not stated/inadequately described

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 3
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0