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Due to recent changes regarding applications for International nurses to Australia and the combining of the nursing boards to one central nursing board in Australia AHPRA I have started a new thread for people to discuss the new process on working in Australia.
Currently New Zealand is not accepting new applicants from International trained nurses except those that meet the Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Agreement {TTMR} this will be updated once the New Zealand nursing board reopen their books to International nurses.
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA
Part 1 thread New grad Filipino nurse wanting to work in Australia/New Zealand - Nursing for Nurses
so does this mean that australian graduates have less time to wait for their nurse registration certificate than those undergoing BP? So 456 visa holders will really have to go home and wait for the registration certificates there.
yes, australian graduates MUST SHOULD have lesser time to wait than those undergoing BP, for obvious reasons.. everybody must be prepared and consider the probability of going home, while waiting for your nsg registration (unless you are appoved and have money to stay longer in Oz)..
hi guys, just a question, especially those from adelaide, south australia, what can you say about the school William Light Institute? The have the BN (P) program and the IRON program. I'm planning to take the BN(P) program, and then proceed to the IRON program there. thanks
what i understand about IRON program is that it's basically a BP (boils down to giving names, e.g. torch, flashlight)..
what i do not understand (pardon me pls) is why do i have to take BN(P) if you can take IRON program immediately so as to get your nsg. registration..
school aged child/children is i guess 5 or 6 years old here.. sorry i dont have kids or family here.. but that's what i know, it's 5 years old.. hope others could answer this question with certainty..
In Victoria if a child turns 6 before either June 30th or July 31st in that year they must be enrolled in school. at the start of the year for that school year. eg: they turn 6 in march must be enrolled to be in school that year. All school, tafes and unis here start at the start of the year. think other states are similiar.
Orange, am I right? C
Much taxpayers money is required to educate a local nurse in this country, also the needs by our multicultural community/indigenous community, to have nurses that understand the health system and health culture of this country first hand and has been educated as a nurse in this country, is hopefully considered and treated with more priority, than needs of a foreign nurse that has paid money and chosen to come here and do bp to be registered in this country.
Though from what I have heard it take 2-3 months for a local to be registered and 2-3 months after bp to be registered so I do not know what the problem is, only the assessment time of foreign nurses education before given the all clear to do bp or to be registered is whats taking time.
I myself never think I have preference over any locals when I visit overseas countries with anything. No matter how much more I have paid/waited than the locals.
what i understand about IRON program is that it's basically a BP (boils down to giving names, e.g. torch, flashlight)..what i do not understand (pardon me pls) is why do i have to take BN(P) if you can take IRON program immediately so as to get your nsg. registration..
school aged child/children is i guess 5 or 6 years old here.. sorry i dont have kids or family here.. but that's what i know, it's 5 years old.. hope others could answer this question with certainty..
hi cioman, thank you for the reply. well BN(P) is the Bachelor of Nursing Post Registration right? Which gives you a degree in nursing in Australia, cause most of us only have nursing degrees from our schools here in the philippines, and the BN(P) program does not need assessment from AHPRA, so I can go there already to study while waiting for my eligibility letter from AHPRA. makes sense? =)
You're in Adelaide, SA right? have you heard of William Light Institute? Do you have any feedback about that school? I think it is much smaller than UniSA and Flinders. Thank you!
In Victoria if a child turns 6 before either June 30th or July 31st in that year they must be enrolled in school. at the start of the year for that school year. eg: they turn 6 in march must be enrolled to be in school that year. All school, tafes and unis here start at the start of the year. think other states are similiar.Orange, am I right? C
Much taxpayers money is required to educate a local nurse in this country, also the needs by our multicultural community/indigenous community, to have nurses that understand the health system and health culture of this country first hand and has been educated as a nurse in this country, is hopefully considered and treated with more priority, than needs of a foreign nurse that has paid money and chosen to come here and do bp to be registered in this country.
Though from what I have heard it take 2-3 months for a local to be registered and 2-3 months after bp to be registered so I do not know what the problem is, only the assessment time of foreign nurses education before given the all clear to do bp or to be registered is whats taking time.
I myself never think I have preference over any locals when I visit overseas countries with anything. No matter how much more I have paid/waited than the locals.
Thank you for this ceridwyn!
the bp is on 25 april 2011. i am very hesitant and i still have time to back out. what if i can't get work after? it's very difficult for a second class person in oz
i know and understand how you feel about this. i wish you luck with your BP. but you'll never know unless you try right? have faith!
the bp is on 25 april 2011. i am very hesitant and i still have time to back out. what if i can't get work after? it's very difficult for a second class person in oz
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People that come to this country to work and become PR and hopefully citizens one day, are to be always welcomed I would hope, never treated as second class citizens, but my reply was to a poster that indicated indignation that Australian graduate nurses were given faster registration than nurses that qualified for BP.
Though, now it takes sometime to be assessed and then register after bp and the timescale now does not co inside with finishing a course and being registered with worry of overstay on visas. Plus Overseas nurses are now finding it increasingly difficult to get sponsorship, does this suggest overseas nurses are being treated second rate?
Of course, any country's home grown nurses should be registered before any others and given jobs, unless other nurses can offer more experience or speciality that locals cannot. surely? I believe Australian nurses are pretty dammned good, just the same as Filipino nurses believe ditto.
Nursing is not just a set of tasks, it is understanding the people, their facial expressions, their culture, their environment, what they want or believe 'health is' 'where they are coming from' wholistic care, the locals that have been born and live, educated here have these instincts embedded, eventually nurses from os get it too, but takes time, same as if I was nursing in the Phillipines, I would not understand much of the beliefs nor culture health beliefs of the people, there, though I have been told I would not be afforded that opportunity to be a Registered nurse there. If I have given offense I apologise.
Hi guys, I need help from your point of views. The school I want to take my BN (P) and IRON program is not listed on the approved course list nursing on the AHPRA Website. Does that mean that if I finish my desired programs there that I wouldn't be registered in Australia as a nurse? I don't understand. If that's the case, then what's the point of opening such school and allowing overseas nurses to take that program? Thank you.
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another question, how old is school age in australia? who has any idea? because i am planning to bring my family and I have a 5 year old daughter. and they have a policy on bringing school aged children "International students with school aged dependants accompanying them to Australia must ensure that their dependants are enrolled in and attend school. School aged dependants are charged full fees at both government and non-government schools."