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
1) who are you macpao, do you have excellent credentials / resume as an RN? if you do, then go ahead and gamble by waiting for HPH to call you, it would be a good gamble on your part (if you have good credentials).. i assume you have read my post about HPH..
2) tuition fees change, i hope the fees above will not change until you started doing you BP.. nobody knows, may be in July the fees in CON will be 12,000..
3) in any of those 3 BP schools (plus 1, HPH), can you guarantee me that anyone of them that you will choose will accept you? if you can guarantee that, then good on you..
4) labor competition, if finish my BP soon, then i start searching job before the next BP participants finished theirs.. if you finish your BP in December 2011, it means there are BP graduates who started searching job before you do..
5) if you are really a lucky person, this is the ideal thing that should happen to you: you will be accepted in HPH in October, so in the meantime you will gain experience now as volunteer/trainee/employee while waiting for october, which means it will improve further your credentials.. then after BP you will be accepted by HPH or its affiliate hospital because HPH is owned by Ramsay which has many hospitals all over australia... if this ideal events will happen to you, then you can be a pastor.
6) come on mac, you could not even decide yet which BP schools to choose, and now you bother yourself which is which, "living" in NSW or VIC...
okey... your call indeed.. good luck.. cheers!
cioman, thank you so much for your straight forward replies. They have indeed been a great help with choosing the appropriate steps to take for a nursing career in Australia. I'm sure a lot of readers in this forum and myself share the same sentiment that you are indeed a blessing to us all.
I think the best choice for me so far would be to take the April intake of CON as it is the soonest but most feasible date by which I would have finished all the requirements.
Thank you so much everyone for all the tips and advice and and more would be very much welcome.
case #1.. me.... never been in australia, lived in the phils., applied online for job in australia, hired, process my 457 visa (while still in phils.), approved 457 released, MUST GO to POEA to get OEC document.. because i cannot go out of the airport/country without that..
case #2.. my colleague RN, studied BP in Australia using student visa (or 456 visa or tourist visa).. finished BP, applied and hired as RN, applied for 457 while in Australia, THE THING is while 457 was still in process she went home in the phils., then while in the phils., her 457 visa was approved.. she bought ticket and confidently went to airport presenting his 457 visa, that's it, cannot go out, she has no OEC..
case#3 you finished your BP, you find job, AND YOU NEVER went home, thus your 457 visa was released while in Australia, then of course no need of OEC because you are already in Australia..
case # 4 which all of you should remember (and don't blame anyone if you do not read this post as ive already gave a warning in the previous post), if i who is a 457 visa holder, will go home for vacation in the phils. then i must still get again a new OEC so that i will not be stopped in NAIA when i go back to Australia.. (if you are a PR, student visa, 456, tourist visa then you do not need this OEC).. this is clear to everybody, i hope so, and remember this post when you go back home for vacation if you are still on 457 visa..
what's OEC, read POEA for complete info.. any clarification about it, then post question then, after reading POEA..
cheers!
Thanks a lot cioman. This is a very useful info. I'll keep it in mind. I will also tell my niece who is now in australia with a 457 visa.
I'm pushing throug with CON in Burwood. Could anyone recommend a place for vaccinations here in Manila? I think I'll be needing the following:
dTpa
Hep B
MMR
Mantoux
Influenza Vaccine
Any affordable laboraties anyone could recommend?
Thank you!
We will be classmates I'm sending my application requirements tomorrow through DHL. Sorry can't help you with the vaccinations as I am not from Manila :) See you soon!
Hey. I think there is a discrepancy with the schedule of classes. Just received an email from CON confirming that the start of classes will indeed be 27 April 2011 as 25-26 April 2011 are public holidays.
just wondering if he did the Clinical/Procedural Skills correctly? as i plan to pattern mine on what he did. where can i find those things that he had listed?
also, is his Gaps in practice history done correctly?
guys i already sent to AHPRA my IELTS result, TOR, and Certificate of Good Standing BUT my Application is still with me and i havent paid them anything yet.
is it okay if i already sent those? what is the first thing that i have to pay for them to start evaluating my application?
to all those who are following this thread, the oec mentioned by cioman, by the way, is the overseas employment certificate (oec) from the poea. this is required for those who have working visa (457) in australia who might come home for vacation.
since you are using a working visa in your exit from the philippines for re-entry to australia, you will be required to present the oec at the philippine airport terminal.
you can apply online anywhere in the philippines through www.oecdelivery.com.ph - the fees are less than p3k. you might balk at the fees but it's only a one time fee. the upside is you will be exempted from airport terminal fee and travel tax. just present your oec document at the airline counter upon check-in.
hope this information will guide everyone. thanks again cioman for the info.
I'm pushing throug with CON in Burwood. Could anyone recommend a place for vaccinations here in Manila? I think I'll be needing the following:
dTpa
Hep B
MMR
Mantoux
Influenza Vaccine
Any affordable laboraties anyone could recommend?
Thank you!
have you checked with the clinic/hospital nearest to your place? even if clinics and hospitals don't have the stock, they know where to order vaccines :)
Could anyone recommend a place for vaccinations here in Manila? I think I'll be needing the following:
I'm sending my application requirements tomorrow through DHL. Sorry can't help you with the vaccinations as I am not from Manila :) See you soon!
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cioman, thank you so much for your straight forward replies. They have indeed been a great help with choosing the appropriate steps to take for a nursing career in Australia. I'm sure a lot of readers in this forum and myself share the same sentiment that you are indeed a blessing to us all.
I think the best choice for me so far would be to take the April intake of CON as it is the soonest but most feasible date by which I would have finished all the requirements.
Thank you so much everyone for all the tips and advice and and more would be very much welcome.