applying to australia

Meowmixer · Dec 29, 2010

Do you have a bsn? I believe Aus requires a bsn to practice as an actual rn. If not i'm pretty sure you can work as the equiv. as a lpn there until you finish up your bachelors.

mimisss · Dec 29, 2010

Do you have a bsn? I believe Aus requires a bsn to practice as an actual rn. If not i'm pretty sure you can work as the equiv. as a lpn there until you finish up your bachelors.

I am done with my BSN. so, do i need to study again?

isobelle · Dec 29, 2010

New grad Filipino nurse wanting to work in Australia/New Zealand Part 2 - Nursing for Nurses

Check this thread. It has lots of info for Filipino nurses! :)

joanna73, BSN, RN · Dec 29, 2010

More importantly, if you have no RN experience, it is unlikely that australia will hire you. I have 2 friends from Canada who are in australia, but you need a year first. Generally, they won't want to train.

mimisss · Dec 29, 2010

More importantly, if you have no RN experience, it is unlikely that australia will hire you. I have 2 friends from Canada who are in australia, but you need a year first. Generally, they won't want to train.

i've read a post about the bridging programme. would it help if i take this up? or does the bridging programme also require me to have work experience before applying to the programme?

allnurses Guide · Dec 29, 2010

Moved to international forums

Please take a look at the many threads on this subject, I think you'll find a great deal of information if you just search the forum

joanna73, BSN, RN · Dec 29, 2010

I'm not certain about that. But, as I mentioned, unless you already have the year of experience, they usually don't want to train a newbie who isn't from australia. They have their own pool of grads to select. Everyone I know who went to australia was already an RN. I also looked into this because after a few years, australia is where I hope to end up. I think it would be challenging to find a job there otherwise.

ceridwyn · Dec 30, 2010

If you look at the immigration websites and google all the hospitals they will be advertising and encouraging nurses to apply but to ones with experience, they want nurses that can hit the floor running with experience that they can give others.

Recently there was a trip to the UK that was to employ nurses with experience and midwives.

In previous years there has been pockets of country hospitals that required RN's and they did not care if you had experience or not and therefore gave nurses with no experience, jobs. Most of these positions have dried up as now locals will relocate just to get work...just check the websites for NSW, SA and WA and QLD governments, there is still one hospitals I know that does employ nurses from os but they are supposed to be experienced in their own countries.

Then aged care became the thing....these are now, thankfully getting RN on staff instead of PCA's in charge, but now these places do not like to employ full-time nurses......costs alot more money, easier to have 2 nurses doing 1 job due to the benefits a full-timer gets and no-one really wants to work full-time when you get the same money for 8-9 days a fortnight. So therefore to get a sponsored job here now is becoming very scarce if you have no experience as full time jobs are scarce, now if you can legally work in the country as a permanent resident thats a different story because part-time jobs (as explained before) are more plentiful and casual is usually easy to get right through the year. (Aged care pays much less)

3-4 months of volunteer work is not experience it is a toe in the water. Especially when Australia has different cultures and completely different health system and different mores. As an RN in a general ward we are expected to do everything, wash, clean-up, meds, ivs, obs, assess, advocate, admit, discharge, escort to theatre, from theartre .......families and friends visiting patients are expected do nothing. Which I do believe is different to many other countries.