Dublin anyone??

Hello, I'm a Renal Care Nurses, this is very interesting.

Do they sponsor nurses from the Philippines ?

We have a lot of international nurses working here, I'm not sure if the hospital sponsors them or not. The best thing to do would be to get in contact with the human resources dept here and ask them

hi

i have a telephone interview with the beacon on thurs, so fingers crossed.

myself and husband desperate to come to Dublin, both casualties of the UK cuts. Hubbie also trying for the beacon. however our irish registration is taking soooo long to process.

anyway glad to read all your positive comments, wish me luck on thursday.

Hello,

I'm thinking about relocating; I'm currently working as a nurse in the US. As I am originally from dublin, I thought it would be a good starting ground to head back.... any updates as it's been a while since the last post?

P.S> I did all of my schooling here in the US

Thanks!

If from Ireland originally then you should have a good chance but need to register with the Irish nursing board and they will assess your training, needs to be on par with theirs so probably looking at 3 year training, not sure what you have done

well i currently have an adn and am in school going for my bsn. will grad dec 08, any thoughts?

I don't think ADN will meet criteria but BSN should. At the end of the day they alone will decide once they assess your transcripts.

As i recently learned, any nurses from canada/us/austrailia (bascially non eu) do not qualify for direct registration. They say they look at everyone on an indivisual basis, but if your education is from can/us/etc... it apparently will not contain enough clinical and theoretical hours. My four year BScN degree was apartnely 1,000 hrs short of clinical time. (Work experience does not make up for this)

so then you need to get an employer who will put you through a 6 week adaptation course. They give you a list of hospitals, and then you're on your own.

I worked with an agency to get me some intereviews as they have more resrouces. I also applied to all the hopsitals on the Dublin area list and ALL of them told me they were not taking on ANYONE who needed a 6 week adaptaion period - it's just not in the budget this year.

The agency put my CV forward to Beacon, but i did not get the interview, I was told it was because they too were not looking to take someone on who needed the adaptation period.

in 3 months with the agency I got one interview, which although it went well, I was not selected.

I'm not trying to be mean or harsh, but just honest and realistic as I wish someone had been with me before I tried to work here. Thinking it would be fairly straight forward, it was devestating when things didn't work out.

I wish you the best of luck, I hope it works out for you. as for me I'll be back to Canada and my old job there in a few weeks...

Wow, I am sorry things worked out that way! I am glad that this site is here, we can all learn from each others journey's..... Well I still have a good bit before I finish my bsn so in the mean time I can figure out the future. Thanks again for your input!:

Sorry to hear that thegoose, would have thought 4 years would have done it seeing as training in the UK is just over 3. Was you able to see your transcripts yourself, maybe something was missed?

Thanks guys.

I would have thought 4 years would be enough too, and to be short by 1,000 hrs just didn't make sense to me.

I did go through the transcrips, and contacted my school directly. What I found was over 4 years I received aprox 1,200-1,300 hrs of clincial time (cant' remeber the exact amount) the Irish Nursing Board requires for direct registration for candidates to have 2,300 hrs.

I contacted the local nursing school (trinity college) to see if I could get an idea of how they have this many hrs.

What I found was that over the first 3 years of schooling they do about the same amount of clinical time as i did over 4 years (1,200hrs)

In their fourth year of studies they do 36 weeks of placement (full time hrs) as paid employees of the Health Service Exceutive. 36 weeks of full time work is annother 1,200 hrs to make 2,400 hrs just above thier cut off and that's how they arrive at that requirement for registration.

This option to be a paid employee/student is not part of the cirriculum, and probably not possible in Canada where I did my degree.

The fursterating thing is this 6 week adaptation course I guess "makes up" for this deficit, however there is apparently a hiring embargo, and as I mentioned very few jobs or employers who will take on people in this situation. I believe that anyone who wants to should be able to get registered regardless of the political/economic situation. If one can't get a job after that due to thier field/lack of experience/interview skills, whatever, then it's on the individual.

I think this registration process is outdated and unfair to those who are non EU. If there are concerns regarding abilities there should be a test or something that is not dependant on the economic stability of the health care system.

Also, as an aside, I found the Irish nursing board to be very difficult to deal with. People move thier lives to annother country and have skills and want to work, and they don't seem to have any sense of what it's like. For example, I needed to send in some extra documents from Canada, so I made arrangements to have them sent by courier (takes 3 buisness days). I called 2 1/2 weeks later to check on the progress and aparently they hadn't been put in the system, and were probably still in the mail room. I called back after an hour of fuming to find that they had just made thier way into the system just now. I'm working for minium wage at a bar when I used to work trauma ER, this is my life and my ability to make a living! But youre just annother pile of paperwork to them.

ok, that felt good to let off some steam. i appologize for the tangent. The sliver lining is my amaizng BF whos' been supporting me, and the fact that my fantastic job is waiting for me when I get back to Canada.

I hope this info helps anyone else who is considering Ireland.

The hiring embargo I think you will find is something that the EU has brought in. For most EU countries now the criteria is own citizen then EU before the rest of the world. In some ways I an understand as in the UK many UK nurses are struggling to find work but a shame as it closes the melting pot for others that just want the chance to travel and work