Fertility Society of Australia » Mission and Goals

To promote and consolidate fertility nurse education throughout Australia and New Zealand

To promote networking, communication and cohesiveness between nurses working in reproductive health at a local, national and international level.

To support nursing based research and encourage nurses to present at local meetings, national and international conferences.

Providing a return airfare for the FNA Committee to attend the executive meetings at the Mid-year Workshop and annual FSA Scientific Meeting.

To provide a registration fee for a nurse from each clinic to attend the nurses workshop at the FSA Scientific Meeting.

Hosting nurse’s workshops at FSA and Mid-year meetings.

Continue networking and communication with one phone link-up per year as well as two “Face to Face” meetings for the FNA Committee and reporting of business back to the FNA membership.

To publish an FNA newsletter and contribute to FSA newsletter, as well as other relevant publications.

To elect a nurse representative for FSA Council and RTAC.

To maintain a current register of FNA members for all ART units in Australia.

To provide assistance for a financial member of FNA to attend an international fertility meeting. This may take the form of an airfare, registration or accommodation for the successful nurse applicant, to attend an international fertility meeting of their choice to the value of $2000.

To support and encourage FSA membership and to increase nurse representation at FSA Annual General Meetings.

To set protocols for nursing standards for RTAC.

To purchase books to establish a library for fertility nurse education in every Australian and New Zealand ART unit.

To continue developing the role of fertility nurses in Australia and New Zealand.

To liaise with ACCESS.

To liaise and network with other relevant special interest nurse groups and international fertility nurse groups and individuals with a special interest in Reproductive Health.

To welcome and support fertility nurses to enhance FNA’s networking capacity.