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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

I agree with those that say do not use trendelenberg positioning. Although the old saying "Head pale raise the tail, head red raise the head" is still OK - it simply means raise the legs but do not put the patient head down. http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:9qk65Y-M8rQJ:www.caccn.ca/Abstracts_2005/33)%2520Trendelenburg,It%27s%2520Time%2520To%2520Change%2520Our%2520Position.doc+trendelenburg+hypotension&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au&client=firefox-a http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/3/172

My only issue with buying online is that I am VERY difficult to fit - wide feet with a HIGH instep. Can't even get ankle straps to do up let alone anything else so unless I can try them on............

Neuro breath as described by other members here is a bit different to that, although I will concede that this can and does happen. The actual "smell" is VERY distinctive and seems to correlate with the degree of brain injury

I found Portman's good though expensive and I currently have a pair of homy peds. Have tried Crocks but they are not closed in enough for me. Wish there was a Birkinstock outlet near me

You can apply directly to some hospitals and they will help you with the visa process. Of course they will be more interested if you have skills that are in short supply here - which is basically any of the specialties (personally if you want QLD go for paediatric post cardiothoracic surgical - we are about to amalgamate our hospitals and there probably will be lots of job openings in this area;)) But midwifery, Psych, paeds - are all in short supply and will usually get you some assistance from a hospital.

We have your whole brain in our hands:p Great Care & Science Neuroscience - roadmap to future (re)development Reconnecting the dots?

Again this information can be obtained from the registration board of the state you want to move to. They will have all the details of bridging courses that they have approved - do NOT go with any that are not on the approved list. If you have overseas experience they might simply want you to do a "challenge test" for competency - remember our system is not built around answering exams but competency at the workplace - the better you can prove you are a competent nurse (give them as much information as you can) the faster you will be registered.

There could be a link between Patel and this case in that they want to appear "tough" on on health related issues but it could also just be a case of a magistrate not willing to stop a case going to trial even if it does not have enough evidence- I would dearly love to know more but there is very little data around about this case.

Oooops! There was a piece in the Courier Mail the other day about Shafston and it seems that the curriculum is under review by the Queensland Nursing Council - this could be a routine review but at the moment it is a bit up in the air http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22922010-3102,00.html

I think you have misunderstood - "shadowing" someone is not a PAID job - it is way of people to get experience as a nurse while studying to be one.