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Aloha!!

Right, i'll keep this short n to the point

Im a RGN with 5 mths post-reg experience in day surgery (recovery).

Now im doing my psychiatric nursing for 12 mths, & qualify in september.

What i want to know is, to work in australia, can i go straight over there to work in psych care, or do i need post-reg experience. Some have said yes, some say no :uhoh21:

Just to clarify, i do enjoy RGN critical care (millions ask why do psych....!?) but long-term id like to work in A&E as psych liasion, but that'll take years :o

Well that was just to explain a bit!

Well, all thoughts, wonders & head-scractches will be much appreictaed!

Thanks,

Meeee! ;)

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if you want to work in oz, get nursing board approval and visa approval first above anything else! this takes months. if you're approved as a registered nurse, with your description, you'll probably be able to work as a psych nurse immediately. depending on which state/facility you go to. but you definitely do not need extra post grad certificate to work as psych nurse.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

You may get more responses if you ask the same question in the austrailian forum

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can i ask how u got funding for the mental health training

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in australia and USA, there are actually a lot of schools offering mental health scholarships.

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