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InsideNurse practitioner updateNurse practitioners are now able to write workers' compensation medical certificates for injured workers in Queensland.
The Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 was amended on 3 November 2009 to allow nurse practitioners to write certificates for injured workers with a minor injury-meaning an injury of a person that does not require the hospitalisation of the person as an in-patient to properly treat the injury (see section 132 (3) of the Act).
Nurse practitioners must act in accordance with the Nurse practitioner workers' compensation certificate protocol which is currently being agreed upon by both Q-COMP and Queensland Health.
We're designing a Queensland nurse practitioner workers' compensation certificate which will be available use in early 2010. We'll also provide information and training for nurse practitioners who will be working in the scheme.
Both the protocol and the medical certificate will soon be available on our website.
How this will affect you
From early 2010 you may begin receiving certificates from injured workers completed by a nurse practitioner rather than a doctor. Your usual treatment and business practices apply.
If you would like to know anything further about these changes please call us on 1300 789 881. 
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