New grad Filipino nurse wanting to work in Australia/New Zealand Part 2

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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.

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Part 1 thread New grad Filipino nurse wanting to work in Australia/New Zealand - Nursing for Nurses

Not without experience. You can also email your case officer for advice on what to do.
All nurses are expected to keep uptodate have learning portfolios of at least 30hors a year and have practiced at least 3 months of full time nursing.How have you kept uptodate with nursing Practise and what will you offer the community in Australia.? Could you advise AHPRA on this?A local nurse that has not practice in 5 years is also unable to be registered!
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All nurses are expected to keep uptodate have learning portfolios of at least 30hors a year and have practiced at least 3 months of full time nursing.How have you kept uptodate with nursing Practise and what will you offer the community in Australia.? Could you advise AHPRA on this?A local nurse that has not practice in 5 years is also unable to be registered!
I was under the impression that prior nursing experience was not a prerequisite to get a LOE and subsequently apply for a BP. Has this changed already?
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It's under criterion 4 under Framework for the assessment of internationally qualified nurses for registration. That criterion was there since AHPRA began. Some schools would not even accept you for a bridging program if you do not have x amount of experience. If you graduated from nursing 5 years ago, it will be expected that you have experience to show that you have practised nursing.

The bridging program is designed for international nurses to adapt to the Australian health care system.

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Specializes in renal department.

hi guys, i just send my application to ahpra. how long will i receive a receipt or something that they have received my application? thanks :)

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hi guys, i just send my application to ahpra. how long will i receive a receipt or something that they have received my application? thanks :)

Mine took about a week. My agency used FedEx as the courier.

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hi guys, i just send my application to ahpra. how long will i receive a receipt or something that they have received my application? thanks :)

About 5 days :)

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Specializes in renal department.

thanks :) how about if i lack something.. how long will they send me letters regarding my lacking documents?

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thanks :) how about if i lack something.. how long will they send me letters regarding my lacking documents?

From what i've heard, they will send an email notifying you of your lacking documents when they have started to assess your documents. Most of the time there is a queue or wait list this is due to the high volume of applicants, so it really depends on the pace of your case officer. :nurse:

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It's under criterion 4 under Framework for the assessment of internationally qualified nurses for registration. That criterion was there since AHPRA began. Some schools would not even accept you for a bridging program if you do not have x amount of experience. If you graduated from nursing 5 years ago, it will be expected that you have experience to show that you have practised nursing.The bridging program is designed for international nurses to adapt to the Australian health care system.
So how come a lot of the posts here say that there are those who have undergone the BP even with zero hospital experience? Does this only apply to those whom have graduated less than 5 years ago?
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Hi kat. I was also interviewed last march 21 via skype at around 1240 pm. it lasted around 6 mins. haha. have you heard from them? i got their letter of offer just this night and it's written there that I am in for September 17 class. How about you?

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God is soo good that he answers all my prayers... Just today I received my Business visa 456 grant letter. They just sent a visa grant letter and did not label my passport as what their new rule is.

Here is my timeline for my visa appliaction:

Feb 17 - Lodged my visa here in cebu thru the Via Center

Feb 20- received a confirmation thru text that my documents was received by Aussie Embassy

it tiook them awhile to send HAP I.D for my mediacls so I e-mailed them for a follow up

luckily they replied March 5

March 6- done my medicals @ Nationwide Health System Cebu

March 12- Medicals was forwarded to Aussie Embassy

March 23- received the most awaited Visa and decision date was March 21.

thankk you for those who helped answering questions, keeping theinspiration me from the start until now and to those who unconditionally extend their prayers., godbless us all in our Aussie dreams..

Happy Sabbath Day!

Hi ned. i just received my letter of offer a couple of hours ago. I am from bacolod and i am wondering if it is possible for me to apply thru the visa center? what documents did u send? thanks and congrats!

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hi guys..im pretty new to this thread..my endorsement letter is still from the old Nurses and Midwives Board of Western Australia..But VCHN now IHNA accepted it anyway..just lodged my visa yesterday and my probable intake is on May 14, 2012 at Melbourne..Anyone here up for the same date? Do shoot me a message so that we can acquaint each other just in case we successfully complete the process..

cheers (",)

hi. i got their letter of offer a couple of hours ago. im in for the september 17 enrolment. i do not understand why it is so late. don't they have any earlier slots? i also chose melbourne campus. what documents did u inlcude for the lodging of visa? did u enrol with their online course/?

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