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Totally agree Grace! I might actually talk to my local member who is in the Rudd cabinet about ways to fix the nursing shortfall. One initiative is to break the universities of the january to december mindset. We need bigger intakes mid-year so we can get them graduating mid year.

Write ALL your experiences down. Personally judging by relatives who are accountants - she is probably just as likely to pick up a job as an accountant as a nurse (and will possibly make more money!!) The more experience you have the more likely it is that you will get visa's.

I know there are some people born and bred here who are very hard to understand - Gympie is developing it's own accent for example. What surprised me was that this was the EEO office's view of the comment because I had always been raised to understand that the only person in the world who spoke English without an accent was the Queen of England (hence the term "the Queen's English). EVERYONE else is deemed to speak it with some kind of accent. I apologised to the person I had offended of course - simply because I see that as a simple way to make THEM feel better while costing me almost nothing (apologies are like smiles that way) but I still think I am right about everyone having SOME kind of accent.

I am surprised since I was informed that even asking someone to repeat what they said because you could not understand thier accent was in fact bigotry.

Well at least we have some rain in the dams lately so the drought it not so bad. (but a long way from being broken yet) Happy and prosperous new year to you too!:)

Don't freak but over here we actually ask people to bring the snake in with them - aids in identification (a lot of ours look similar - just don't ask me to do the actualy ID because for that you have to count the anal scales and THAT is too close for my comfort) The way to deal with a snake is to put it in the freezer - slows the beggers down so your boys actually did the right thing.

You stand a better chance of getting jobs if you have experience. There are a couple of good threads here about how to go about doing a challenge test. Otherwise you will have to do a bridging course and that might take 6 months and is very expensive. As for other jobs - Australia has a skills shortage - if you have any kind of skill (even something like carpentry) then your chances of getting a visa are much much better than if you come on the possiblity of doing a bridging course,

Hmmmm - seems Queensland health is running a refresher/re-entry program and they USED to be a way to register if you were trained overseas http://www.thinknursing.com/ AIN position description and salary http://www.health.qld.gov.au/jobs/Results_Advanced.asp?Stream=Nursing&Area=%25&Salary_Range=BETWEEN+0+AND+50000&Search=Search

It is a total load of crock and with any luck it will be scrapped soon.

You need to talk to someone. The condition is highly variable and NOT YOUR FAULT!! It's the ol' hormones dear;) BUT PLEASE - see your GP?

Hang in there mate! It will all come together soon - remember deep breaths and say after me "Think calm blue ocean, think calm blue ocean":p

Good for you!! Personally I think ALL doctors should spend some time in ICU - just to see what Septic shock is all about.

Wound care - especially packing wounds would not be in any CNA/personal carers job description I would think. This sounds WAAAAAY" outside your scope of practice - as for rolling a 250 KG man by yourself - that too is not on. One way around this might be to just leave at 1 pm. "Sorry you only paid me until now - I have another patient to go to"

If he was on Beta Blockers he may not have been. Beta Blockes sometimes "mask" the symptoms of shock by preventing tachycardia.

You will never find ANY single payer system anywhere that people are 100% happy with. Often the countries that have single payer systems look on public complaints, especially in the media, as a method of feedback into the system to make it better. Waiting lists too long - complain to the papers - incompetant surgeon - complain to the papers. Unfortunately this can come across as the fact that single payer systems are unworkable or fraught with problems