Moving to Australia upon graduation

[vgriggs]

Hello everyone, I will be graduating nursing school and will be moving to Australia. I do have plans to take my NCLEX in my home state of Texas and once I pass and receive my license I want to start to make the move. I know I can apply for a skilled work visa and I also need to apply to AHPRA for registration in Australia but are there any suggestions on how to do it different, or even if i'm in the wrong order? Can I apply for the visa and registration at the same time? I also look on seek.com/au to see all the nursing jobs available. Any help guys would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all!!!

[vgriggs]

My current post stands so if your a new commer to my question I jus wanna say I am an Extremly positive person so if you have good advice or wanna leave a comment on how I can do it better or what not to forget by all means please comment. But please do not post any negative comments about my post. This is a great website and I thank everyone for the good feedback...

[Bringonthenight]

When I did my grad year (7years ago) I started in the OR. We had no OR clinicals what so ever during Uni. I had never stepped foot in theatre before. We were given 3 days orientation in each area (scrub/pacu/anaesthetics). It was defiantly sink or swim! I love theatre now & ended up doing a post grad dip.

Fast forward to now, things have not changed. I have just completed my post grad dip in midwifery. Orientation time, 1 day in each area. In my opinion midwifery was like learning a whole new degree in 12 months. Sure nursing and midwifery overlap a lot but we hit the floor running.

I would of loved 20weeks orientations :)

Midwifery is not nursing! It's a whole different ball game so I'm told- 1 day orientation that's scary! Lol

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

After a year at uni I am assuming!

[Sezza83, BSN, RN]

Mid is a whole different mind set to nursing. And no we went to Uni while working so I think I had 2 days at Uni before I was on the postnatal ward on my own.