Going Back Into Nursing - Advice?

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Specializes in CCRN, PCCN.

Hey, so I'll get straight into it! :)

I graduated with my BSN in 2013, worked for a year in Florida, and then moved back to the UK to be an RN in my home country of England. I wasn't able to get a license in the UK (due to "lack of post grad experience").

Anyways, I took almost a year to try and get a license in the UK and then Ireland, both of which were unsuccessful. In 2016, I applied to the AHPRA and work in Australia and got my license! It is now 2017, and its been 2.5 years since I've been in the clinical environment, and technically only been working for a year!

I'm so excited to get back into nursing, but I'm also so freaking nervous to be responsible for a full patient load again and to remember everything all over! Honestly? I know that I'm going to be VERY rusty, and before I start work in a couple months. I'm not scared... just very cautious and paranoid.

Does anyone have ANY advice they can give me? I'm reviewing some nursing school notes (like physical assessment and pharm!), practicing physical assessments, revising lab values.... but does anyone out there have any suggestions on anything else I can do to prepare?

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In what country are you attempting to gain employment?

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Specializes in CCRN, PCCN.

I'm going to be working in Australia at the end of April. But my question is more of getting back into nursing in general :)

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