Hello from Croatia

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Hello!

I'm nurse from Croatia working at Surgery department (Traumatology and Plastic surgery) 3years, and I have two questions and I'll appreciate if someone can answer!!

1. How many years and what exactly of education I have to had to work in Australia as a nurse?

(I have 4 years of High school, main exam and Croatian Nurse license)

2. Does someone know person, e-mail, agency or anything else who might can help me to find more information, because I'm really interested to find nurse job at hospita?

Thank you :D

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Hi and welcome to the site

i have moved this to the International forum

A lot will depend on your transcripts and that your training meets their requirements. Currently each state has their own requirements but there are talk of everything become national in Australia next year.

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Thanx!

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I was just going to ask Lidd a similar question LOL. What type of nurses do you have in Croatia? For example here in the US we have LVN/LPN (Licensed Vocational Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse) and RN (Registered Nurse). How long do your nurses have to go to school in order to obtain a degree in nursing and how many years of general education must you have for your degree? How many years of the actual nursing portion? Thanks in advance

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In Croatia, patient care staff is mostly composed of high-school nurses (4 yrs of nursing high-school). Afterwards, they have 1 yr of internship, and finally they can get their license if they pass the state exam. Their daily jobs are patient care (patient hygiene, feeding, etc.), administering all prescribed drugs except IV drugs (in practice, they do administer IV drugs, due to shortage of BcN's), taking patient to all sort of tests (CT, MR, etc.), and so on.

BcN's (bachelors of nursing) are nurses with additional 3 yrs of nursing college. They're mostly working as team leaders, chief nurses and simmilar nursing administrative duties, ICU's, OR's and simmilar complex-care branches of medicine.

MSN (master's) nurses need to have BCN's degree in order to get MSN. MSN takes additional 2 yrs of college education, and currently is not available in Croatia. Should be by the end of next year.

Also, orderlies are very uncommon here (as nurses do their jobs too), havent seen any volunteers so far. So mainly, nurses have to do everything by themselfs.

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