ceridwyn

ceridwyn

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  1. WHAT? Sydney University was mentioned, nothing to do with Flinders, if Flinders say their BN post grad course will lead to registration then it does.....Sydney university in their course guide their...
  2. Sydney university does not conduct a Bachelor of NUrsing as such, but Bachelor of Nursing post registration which is more on professional issues and research than teaching nursing as it encourages...
  3. spose not!
  4. Did you have your beergoggles on? Australian men in general do not treat their women well.....hence when they get in their 40's and 50's they look towards the Phillipines because no australian women...
  5. Sounds fine, you know more than me, on applications as I have never had to do much except fill in a piece of paper when I registered, the uni did the rest or visa's. Have not needed one of those yet....
  6. How to be a nurse in Australia?

    There is a few things that could be mentioned on how to be a good nurse in Australia. 1. be registered. 2. Care, really care about what you are doing, do not see it as easy money and do as little...
  7. Posy Day

    Very pleasant here today, sun shining and just an acute breeze thing happening. Heard the mental health teams are swamped in the wet season up there, could not imagine it, even with our occasional...
  8. Posy Day

    No thanks, I do not own a coat as such, just an anorak,/parker nor do I own a pair of gloves, someone bought me scarf but I never use it. Living in the UK in Manchester for 6 months put me off snow...
  9. You must apply to AHPRA before you can even consider a bridging program, as per answer to your last post on another forum. If the National board says you must do a course then consider looking for...
  10. Applied for a graduate program at a local hospital. Worked hard in that year. Had four rotations into orthopaedics, aged care, theatre, icu and dialysis and after that year moved on to community...
  11. Every country, if the best care is to be given. BTW have you heard that all countries except Australia and they are getting fussy, have stopped importing nurses in large
  12. Posy Day

    aah can feel it now,, warm....vitamin D come to
  13. Posy Day

    Yeah, 28 C is just my perfect too, did not like working in the 46 C for that week when the fires where here, though it did not feel as bad as the 38 C. Hopefully fires will not be a problem this...
  14. Posy Day

    Another thing I have never heard of. I have been nursing around Victoria for the past 25 years never seen a patient given anything by a public hospital. I have even worked at RMH on neuro. Must be...
  15. help! nursing in australia

    No hospital will consider you until you have been assessed by our new national nurses board, you must contact them. The Queensland board is no longer in existence. It seems from the other forums that...
  16. PICC Line Insertions / IV Team

    Not to my knowledge, never come across it (I am in the country), though I have heard some chemo centres have RNS doing it. Cannulating for IV access is a common skill for RNs here, same as blood...
  17. Here is the link: AHPRA - Accreditation go to Registered Nurse accreditatio standards page 10 "mininum length of course (in Australia of course) will be undergraduate 6 full time semesters."...
  18. I have read the new regulations are any undergraduate nursing course must be 6 full-time semesters long and these are to be nursing subjects. Masters is a different story. Lets face it the...
  19. Never heard of a respiratory therapist, physiotherapists are what are called physical therapists I believe
  20. No Work Experience

    Australia really needs experienced and specialist nurses,, but on saying that they seem to still be getting jobs, when others
  21. If any nurse in Australia is standing up in salute to a Doctor give me their address, I need to have a little word...... Country areas tend to still call the consultants, Mr so and so but from my...
  22. Thanks for your explanation Doza, so therefore high/school education is not done entirely in english? Yeah every website you go to states the Phillipines has less schooling than anywhere else, 6...
  23. Secondary school/ High school same thing as long as it was after 6-7 years of a junior type school. The high/secondary school should be 6 years long and all instruction in english, this...
  24. Oz new grad interview help?

    Sorry no one has answered yet, Alfred would be a great hospital to do your Grad, was there the other day and spoke to a few grads they love working there and say the support is really good....
  25. Here in Australia we do 7 years at a primary school then 6 years at a secondary school where we study english and actually pass a very tough exam on it in Year 6 at high school. At this stage we are...