Australian student nurse wanting to apply for a New Zealand graduate program

[shezzaaa]

I have read a few threads about New Zealanders coming over to Australia on a grad position/TPPP. But I was wondering whether there was any Aussies that got offered a program in New Zealand, I believe it's called a NEPT there.

I'm really interested in doing my grad year there for something different and exciting. However I couldn't find any information for Australians to apply - I think I read somewhere we can but the hospital will not receive a grant from the government or something like that for offering us the position - so if this is true am I to assume there's a very small chance in being offered a position? I mean why take on an Australian when they can have a New Zealander and get money for it?

if there's any Aussies out there who have done a grad year in New Zealand I would love to hear from you :)

[ceridwyn]

Like all things its never visa versa for born here Australians for rights in other countries, they keep telling us we have been born in the best in the world and do not deserve the right to go anywhere else, gee then we are not much of threat then of mass emigration to any country, hell our nursing degree is only accepted by the wonderful NZ.

Will search some for you, but somewhere I read that NZ do not take 'foreigners' into their grad programs, pity all, and I mean the private hospitals as well as well as the public hospitals, do not have that rule for Australian new grads in Australia. Including the aged care big businesses as well!

[thenightnurse456]

Australia pretty much accepts people from all over for nursing jobs, yet our degree is useless everywhere except New Zealand... Awesome for us!

I've heard the nursing market in NZ is poor at the moment, not sure how successful you'll be but you might as well try right?

[ceridwyn]

My biggest beef is that every other country assess foreign nurses against the nursing degree curriculum and experiences of their own nurses, apparently the way our nurses are educated and their curriculum means nothing or did to ANMAC and AHPRA and years of loyalty and immigration seemed far more important than the planned curriculum and expected general education and post graduate education to be recognised as a specialist nurse only, is currently ignored, due to shortages in some areas, leaving nurses educated here, behind the eight ball when it comes to promotions etc. instead of encouraging and paying Australian generalist nurses to specialise.

[imaginations]

There are a lot of Kiwi nurses who do grad programs in Australia (there were two in mine and at least one in the year before me). However I have a feeling it is more complex in the reverse. Good luck!