I'm a Nurse from the US with 2 years experience on a cardiac/telemtry floor and just mailed all my paperwork into the AHPRA a week ago. :) Just the waiting game now!!
How long would you say your entire process took before you officially got your license to work in Oz? Would you mind me asking what agency you're working for and what city?
How difficult would you say the transition has been?? So your TOE is our TEE and your GORD is our GERD? how funny. :)
there is no exam for registration but she will have her credentials assessed by the AHPRA and it is up to them to decide if she needs to do the bridging progam.
The following document I found in the website which explains nurses who studied in high school and collge need not pass the IELTS.It did not mention any country. So I thought INDIA is included.
As all nurses must have completed a tertiary qualification, studying at school and college is not in itself sufficient. What the site actually says is:
If an applicant is able to provide sufficicient evidence that they have completed:
their secondary education taught and assessed in English to the requisite level required for entry into a nursing or midwifery program AND
a nursing or midwifery program taught and assessed in English
then the applicant is not required to undertake a test of English language proficiency for registration purposes.
As the principal official language of India is Hindi, your friend may not qualify as IELTS-exempt, even though English is the second official language.
K+MgSO4, BSN
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there is no exam for registration but she will have her credentials assessed by the AHPRA and it is up to them to decide if she needs to do the bridging progam.