Overseas Nurses' requirements for NMC registration who once worked in Saudi Arabia

Published Oct 20, 2016

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Hi, I am new to this NMC Policies regarding their requirements especially to those who have trained outside of their country. May i know how you were able to secure the verification of registration in Saudi Council and the certificate of unlicensed practiced since it is really what is happening in saudi.. Nurses are allowed to practice evethough our licenses is still under process.

About the police clearance also, i did not find any information from the NMC website regarding the validity of the police clearance but i was told that it should be three months old during the submission of the said documents. I have secured a police clearance before i finished my contract in saudi, that was march 2016. You can imagine the struggles i had just to get this one. For the knowledge of everybody here, it is not easy to go around saudi given that we are females, and not to mention that we are also busy working in the hospital. I am 4hrs bus travel from jeddah and the process of obtaining it was really lengthy, exhausting and expensive.

I hope someone can enlighten me about these requirements. I am already thinking of quitting and just apply for Ireland.

Thanks!