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Definitions and Abbreviations

AARN Association for Australian Rural Nurses Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS)

a primary healthcare service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate healthcare to the community which controls it (through a locally elected Board of Management)

Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS)

health service funded principally to provide services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals (patients)

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACN

Australia College of Nurses

AHPRA

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

AIN

Assistants in nursing

ANMF

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

ARIA(+)

Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia

ARPRA

Australian Professional Regulatory Authority

ATM

Automatic Teller Machine

ATSIHW

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker

CASP

Critical Appraisal Skills Program

CoNNO

Coalition of National Nursing Organisations

CRANA

Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia