German OR RN migrating to OZ soon

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Specializes in Theatre (Urology, Gen Surgery, Ent,...).

Hello out there.

As the title provides, I'm an OR RN, living in Germany. Within the next 6-9 months I will migrate to OZ and attend to work as an OR RN. I think my English is o.k. but the special vocabulary for working as a nurse, especially in OR, is missing. Now here comes my question. Can anyone recommend any literature or websites for learning specific vocabulary? Or better, is there any German speaking nurse out there who can teach me nursing specific English?

Cheers,

Morko

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

Hi Morko

The only places I can think of is ACORN:

http://www.acorn.org.au/

and the Australian nursing and midwifery council.

Hope they can point you in the right direction :)

Just out of curiosity what state where you planning on going?

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Specializes in Theatre (Urology, Gen Surgery, Ent,...).

Hi Scrubby,

that is a great source of information for me. I thank you very much for the link.

To answer your question about our destination, we will migrate to Western Australia und would like to settle down north of Perth. But that depends on where I'll get a good job. I think my chances aren't too bad. I'm working as a RN in Germany for about 14 years now, in the theatre for at least 11 years. And I did a furter education for working at the theatres as well.

Cheers,

Morko

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