Promotes coherence in the program of study by identifying how underpinning educational, nursing and midwifery philosophies are used to guide teaching and learning approaches and support program learning outcomes.

Occurs when a person’s personal interests conflict with their responsibility to act in the best interests of ANMAC. Personal interests include direct interests as well as those of family, friends, or other organisations a person may be involved with or have an interest in. It also includes a conflict between a director’s duty to ANMAC and another duty that the Director has. A conflict of interest may be actual, potential or perceived and may be financial or non-financial.

The combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a profession/occupational area.

Healthcare consumers are people who engage with healthcare systems to manage their health and well-being. Consumers can be patients, carers, families, community groups, consumer organisations or consumer representatives (see below). Nearly everyone uses healthcare services at some point, and therefore, most of us are healthcare consumers.

Ability of nurses and midwives to demonstrate they have maintained their competence in their current area and context of practice.

Means by which members of the professions maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge, expertise and competence, and develop the personal and professional qualities required throughout their professional lives.

Ongoing midwifery relationship between the student and the woman from initial contact in pregnancy through to the weeks immediately after the woman has given birth, across the interface between community and individual health care settings. The intention of this experience is to enable students to experience continuity with individual women through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period, irrespective of the carers chosen by the woman or the availability of midwifery continuity of care models. In terms of the student of a re-entry to the register midwifery program, it is likely that the relationship between the student and the woman will begin late in the pregnancy and include antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care experiences.

A model of maternity care where women have a primary midwife assigned to them throughout pregnancy, labour and birth and the postnatal period. Each midwife has an agreed number (caseload) of women per year and acts as a second or "back-up" midwife for women who have another midwife as their primary carer.

A shared formal agreement, or deed of agreement, between the education provider and any health service providers where students gain their professional experience.

The name of the country you were born in.