my good nursing life in ireland

[lhw4102]

i am a nurse for almost 3 years now in ireland, i am in dublin right now, well, enjoyng the 3 day a week duty, then rest during the offs. or do agency at times. ireland is cosmopolitan.it is not only european but dominated by chinese, malay, indians and pakistani's. well, salary wise, it is real good. i got a 2 bed condo in makati city for 3 years, saved 20 thousand euro in the bank, continuously sending money to the philippines and would you believe, i dont have any credit cards nor loan in the bank.

i think it is a matter of attitude and introspection towards the way we save penny in rainy days. i know some of the nurses is same as me, but some isnt good enough in saving money.i still keep going, sooner or later i will be going back to the philippines have a properties, business while i am earning money to my savings. i find future the most important aspect, not the past...keep going, im 27 now, single, and sooner i will be married and settled, at 35, i promised myself, i am living my life in the seaside mansion, at peace and most of all, not wiping anymore...

i hope i shared with you guys this story of mine.

[preciosa]

Well I'm glad that my sister is working as an RN. I have seen the hospital where she is going to work when I went to visit my friends in Dublin last year.I was the one who encouraged her to apply.She will be working in ITU.

[thegoose]

I haven't had time to read all the posts, so if this seems a bit off, I apologize.

I am a Canadian, got my BScN from McMaster University 2006 and since then worked in a busy inner city ER/trauma centre and loved it. In Januray of this year i moved to Dublin with my boyfriend as he was offered a research position at Trinity. I have been trying to get registered as a nurse here now for over 8 months. My application was recently assessed to find that I need to do a 6 week adaptation period becuase my degree lacked enough clinical hours - a minimum of 2300 hours.

The assessment period wouldn't be that big of a deal, except that no one in the greater Dublin area is accepting candidate nurses who need an adaptation period, I have contacted them all and have the formal email replies to prove it.

I plan on contesting this as from the research I've done so far, no ontario school offers that many clinical hours. If you broke it down by semester it would be equivalent to about 275hrs/semester for 4 years.

My other issue is that the irish cirriculum (I checked with Trinity to get this info) is they have 36 week of clinical unpaid instruction which by the hours is eqivalent to Ontario (about 1250 hrs over 4 years) and then they do a PAID consolodation period of 36weeks persumably of full time work for annother 1200 or so hours, which is where they get thier number of 2300 hours minmum.

So my question is: are there any canadian nurses out there who qualified for direct registration or does everyone have to do the adaptation period.

Or has any one filed an appeal with the An Bord Altrainis (about anything)- and what was the outcome/process.

I feel it is rediculous that I went to a great university for nursing, and have worked more than 3,000 hours in emergency (at my full time job) and I'm not considered eligible for direct registration.

anyone with advice or assistance? (I don't need pity, I'm far too ticked off about this whole thing)

[Aloort]

Hi,

I'm also a Canadian nurse. I've got my BScN @ Université de Montréal in 2005. I've been working @ JGH Montréal on a Med-Surg floor. I'm about to move to Dublin this summer. I've had to pass through the same process with ABA and I'll also have to do that 6 weeks adaptation period. I know a third RN (with Canadian-5 years in Ontario-experience) working in Dublin. She also had to do that adaptation period.

What else is new...that's karma. Good luck with your search.

Take care,

Aloort

[suzanne4, RN]

Thread moved to the International Forum since it has nothing to do any longer with working in the Philippines.

[thegoose]

Have you found a place to do your 6 week adaptation yet? and are you working with an agency to find work or doing it on your own?