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
Congratulations joiemike! I remembered you last night and included you in my prayers, I'm happy you finally got your eligibility letter. By the way, I waited for 8 months. So yeah, to everyone who's still waiting, just keep your hopes high and pray harder than ever. I also have to re-sit my IELTS really soon. Good luck to us! :)
Thanks isingrn. I hope you'll be able to get in a slot for the bp soon.
There are other BP providers in Victoria that have 12 to 13 weeks program but also provide the takers a chance for a possible early exit in 8 or 9 weeks. For example, you can finish BP in La Trobe in 8 weeks if they assess you competent already, and you can also have an early exit with ETEA in 9 weeks. The only question is, what are the chances for that? Is it hard? Are there any members here who took their BP in this schools and finished it earlier? Please provide us with answers?
hello. i took the IRCON course in ETEA and had the opportunity for early exit. If they assessed you as competent in their assignments, quizzes case presentation and especially in your clinical placement, then you'll have the chance for early exit
There are other BP providers in Victoria that have 12 to 13 weeks program but also provide the takers a chance for a possible early exit in 8 or 9 weeks. For example, you can finish BP in La Trobe in 8 weeks if they assess you competent already, and you can also have an early exit with ETEA in 9 weeks. The only question is, what are the chances for that? Is it hard? Are there any members here who took their BP in this schools and finished it earlier? Please provide us with answers?
hello. i took the IRCON course in ETEA and had the opportunity for early exit. If they assessed you as competent in their assignments, quizzes case presentation and especially in your clinical placement, then you'll have the chance for early exit
Thanks a lot for the information serenepalma! You must be very good! hehehe
Anyway, are the quizzes,assignments, case presentations easy or difficult? Try comparing it with your experience here in the Phils. How many of you were qualified for an early exit during your BP intake?
I have a problem. I am a second courser and I already have passed NCLEX in the State of California. Since I have no SSN, CA did not issue me a physical CA License.
My question is, do you think its better to write in the AGOS-04 Form that I passed NCLEX in the State of California to make the Assessors think that I am eligible for registration as RN in Australia? I do not want to experience the same thing that happened to me in my application to NZ few years ago. I got rejected in my NZ application because I am a second courser (I am not yet a US RN that time).
Do you think that declaring that I am a US RN (but without the physical license) would help me in my Australia application?
RN means Registered Nurse, you are not a Registered Nurse are you in the state of California.
They ask in the application form have you past any qualification...you passed the US of A qualifiying exam NCLEX but not Registered in any State. you must qualify this in your application.
Having a license from the states, did/does not qualify you for New Zealand or Australia. Your initial qualification is assessed in either country. NZ nursing council decided that the 2nd course 'degrees' from the Phillipines did not qualify nurses to practice in NZ and that was that, no matter where else you may have been a Registered Nurse, California or Poland.
AHPRA will assess you second course and because you have been given credit by having another degree, nurse related or not, you have been given credit, as I believe the 2nr course is anything from 12 months to 2 years and your qualification needs to be a 3 years nursing degree......will be assessed also by AHPRA, you need to gain eligibility on your nursing education not on how many nursing Registrations you have gained across states or countries.
Just be honest, that the best policy. Passing a NCLEX exam does not make you ready to nurse in Australia or any other country it is US of A specific and no other country will give you any credit for it, different pathology values, different 'speak', different way of nursing.
RN means Registered Nurse, you are not a Registered Nurse are you in the state of California.
They ask in the application form have you past any qualification...you passed the US of A qualifiying exam NCLEX but not Registered in any State. you must qualify this in your application.
Having a license from the states, did/does not qualify you for New Zealand or Australia. Your initial qualification is assessed in either country. NZ nursing council decided that the 2nd course 'degrees' from the Phillipines did not qualify nurses to practice in NZ and that was that, no matter where else you may have been a Registered Nurse, California or Poland.
AHPRA will assess you second course and because you have been given credit by having another degree, nurse related or not, you have been given credit, as I believe the 2nr course is anything from 12 months to 2 years and your qualification needs to be a 3 years nursing degree......will be assessed also by AHPRA, you need to gain eligibility on your nursing education not on how many nursing Registrations you have gained across states or countries.
Just be honest, that the best policy. Passing a NCLEX exam does not make you ready to nurse in Australia or any other country it is US of A specific and no other country will give you any credit for it, different pathology values, different 'speak', different way of nursing.
I have a problem. I am a second courser and I already have passed NCLEX in the State of California. Since I have no SSN, CA did not issue me a physical CA License.
My question is, do you think its better to write in the AGOS-04 Form that I passed NCLEX in the State of California to make the Assessors think that I am eligible for registration as RN in Australia? I do not want to experience the same thing that happened to me in my application to NZ few years ago. I got rejected in my NZ application because I am a second courser (I am not yet a US RN that time).
Do you think that declaring that I am a US RN (but without the physical license) would help me in my Australia application?
Hi, as far as I know you also have to submit your TOR from your previous course. As per your US license, will they provide you a license verification? If so, yes, you have to indicate your US license in the AGOS-04 as it is specifically indicated in the form that you must declare all your registration from the past 5 years. I failed to indicate my US license, I wonder how they knew I have probably indicated it somewhere but not my AGOS-04, AHPRA came back to me requesting me to submit my license verification. At first they didn't accept it, they asked me to submit evidence of my NCLEX course done in the USA. I just explained to them that I didn't study in the US and I gave them a CTC of every document that was sent to me by US Board of Nursing indicating that they're no longer issuing a physical license. Luckily, I called AHPRA and they told me that my eligibility was sent the next day they received my documents, I waited for my eligibility letter for 8 months. So try and persist! There's no harm in trying. Good luck! :)
I want to go there too because I know a few who did their BP there.
I hope they have an early intake next year but I doubt if I can still wait because my IELTS will expire June next year.
So where do you plan to take your BP then? Have you gotten your eligibility? I've gotten mine, I'm just in the look out for schools that might still have a slot for me. :)
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speaking of US licenses,
I was initially licensed in one state but I endorsed my license to my current state. So technically, that's 2 licenses. But since I am not using my initial license I did not renew it. And I don't know what will be in the license verification from that expired license. Should I include a letter in my AHPRA application on why I let it expire?
I have a problem. I am a second courser and I already have passed NCLEX in the State of California. Since I have no SSN, CA did not issue me a physical CA License.
My question is, do you think its better to write in the AGOS-04 Form that I passed NCLEX in the State of California to make the Assessors think that I am eligible for registration as RN in Australia? I do not want to experience the same thing that happened to me in my application to NZ few years ago. I got rejected in my NZ application because I am a second courser (I am not yet a US RN that time).
Do you think that declaring that I am a US RN (but without the physical license) would help me in my Australia application?
Hi paulryan,
I am a 2nd courser like you. I also applied for registration with NZNC last year. I was granted eligibility for the bridging program to be registered in NZ after I submitted complete documents. While it is true that it is more tedious for 2nd coursers, NZ accepts 2nd coursers for registration for as long as your nursing course is at least 3 yrs and your course curriculum satisfies their standards. They don't check your previous course nor the credited subjects previously taken in your 1st course.
I decided to apply for registration with AHPRA because all the slots for BP are fully booked at present. Now, I have eligibility for registration with AHPRA and NZNC.
But, mind you, I thought that since I got an approval from NZNC that I would have no problems with my application with AHPRA. I was sadly mistaken. AHPRA insisted that I submit my transcript, course description, etc. from my 1st course. They are more interested in the number of units you have taken for a nursing degree. I initially reasoned with my registration officer last May that I shouldn't be made to submit these documents from my 1st course because it is totally unrelated to nursing. Although she initially accepted my reasoning, it resulted to another 2 months delay to my eventual approval. Good thing that I got hold of my documents in the 1st course by then (I just secured these in case AHPRA will really insist). I immediately submitted these docs after receiving an email from her at the end of June that I lacked the number of nursing course units to be considered as at par with Australian university degree. She asked me to submit, immediately, any other documents to prove otherwise including documents from my previous degree or post-graduate courses in nursing that I may have recently taken.
So, ceridwyn is definitely right. Treat each country's licensing board separate and distinct from each other. What may be good for the gander doesn't necessarily mean it's also good for the goose (so to speak).
joiemike
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Thanks isingrn. I hope you'll be able to get in a slot for the bp soon.