Re: Foreign Nurses Immigrating to NZ
It's a competency course or the "bridging" course. It's more of safety thing, actually. More of safe nursing practice in terms of clinical and cultural aspect. Don't worry, it's not so hard as you may thought so. It's not like you're back to college life again. You will learn more about how kiwis practice nursing. But, in theory side, it's all the same. You may not avoid comparing it to American or Philippine practice but be open-minded and that will help you to embrace quickly and easily the kiwi practice (oh, how I wished somebody told me this before
). You have a classroom session and the clinical of course. Be prepared with the Kiwi accent and British accent. that's usually the difficult part of communication, understanding the accent and the slangs. If you've got more time, spend some time listening or watching kiwis programme in youtube or bbc news. Kiwis have lots of slangs. That's a pain, I know but you'll get used to it when you're already here. By the way, if you are from visayan region, you've got the edge. Find out why. Listen to them in youtube or news. Google it.
27 is good.
Goodluck!
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