Nursing agency/salary/taxes

[ShauntayMalkind]

Hello. I am currently living in Australia with my husband and daughter. We are here on my husband's school visa (he is going to medical school in Queensland). I am applying for my RN license with AHPRA in the next few days (hopefully that goes quickly!). I briefly talked with a nursing agency YNA Oxley and I am going to go this route because I just want to work PRN...and the pay is really good haha.

1) How do I choose which nursing agency to go with? They pretty much all seem to be very similar, though with working at different hospitals perhaps.

2) My friend here on a working holiday visa pays a TON of taxes. We have private health insurance because it was required for my husband, so will we get access to any of their public health benefits? Will I get any of those taxes back at the end of the year?

3)Does anyone know how long my application might take since I'm applying within Australia and already have a visa?

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

You can sign up to as many agencies as you want, another suggest is to contact hospitals to see if they have in house bank. This is a group that works PRN gets paid 25% of regular staff, cheaper to the organization than agency.

No, you will notget access to public health benefits, if you need GP services you can bill them to your insurance. If you are unwell and present to hospital you will be treated then billed to you or your insurance. Yes you will get a lot of tax back at the end of the financial year (June) if you buy uniforms or equipment for work keep the receipts as you can claim them as work related expenses.

No idea how long it will take to process, visa and registration are 2 seperate issues,