Key objective: The Nurses Experiencing Domestic Violence Committee will focus on understanding how nurses who are victims of domestic violence can best be supported through their workplace.

2021/2022 priorities include:

• understanding the gaps in existing services for nurses
• developing resources so that nurses can support their colleagues and
• understanding how healthcare employers can create supportive environments for nurses who may be victims of domestic violence.

Key objective: The Nurses Caring for People Experiencing Domestic Violence Committee will focus on the role nurses have in supporting victims of domestic violence in the community.

2021/2022 priorities include:

• enhanced awareness through nursing leadership
• develop a platform for nurse education on domestic violence, and
• identify opportunities to support nurses in caring for victim-survivors of domestic violence.

Key objective: The Occupational Violence Committee will look at how nurses are at risk of violence in their workplaces and how this can be limited.

2021/2022 priorities include:

• national legislation to protect nurses who may practice on their own;
• developing toolkits to shift the language on workplace violence, and
• advancing policy positions for both governments and workplaces in preventing occupational violence against nurses.

Key objective: The Nurses and Child Protection Committee will focus on the role nurses have in supporting children experiencing child abuse and neglect.

2021/2022 priorities include:

• develop standards on how we address jurisdictional barriers for children through nursing leadership
• identify and develop the nurse’s role in supporting child protection services through leadership and guideline development
• create strategies to support closing the gap through working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.