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This post is addressed to excellent pinoy RNs who already have a letters of eligibility to undergo a bridging program in Australia. I recently have found a pathway for you to be registered as nurses in Oz that would cost you heaps less than the average cost these days. If you are interested, you can send me a private message. Please give me your reasons why I should share this information with you. Also, send your complete CV, and outline your skills. You may choose to leave out the names of your school and workplace for privacy reasons. But you need to convince me why I should help you. You may also cite your personal circumstances without necessarily giving information that could reveal your identity. If you are successful in gaining registration through this pathway, I guarantee that you would want to locate me so you can buy me the fastest and most expensive laptop there is as a gift or something similar because of the money you save. But of course i would refuse such a gift. I am sorry I cannot share this information to everyone as it would decrease the chances of the less fortunate yet deserving excellent pinoy RNs who aspire to call beautiful Australia their new home. This information will be shared only to the top 3 pinoy RNs who in my opinion deserve this help. I have now emptied my inbox. Good luck

you will pay custom duties only if the total cost of the package is over 900aud.

haha. sometimes i wear short pants.... no kidding

cioman nice to hear from you again

i enterred australia twice with my 456. first time i had a roundtrip ticket. was never asked for the ticket. so the second time i bought a one way trip. wasnt asked to show it either. just have your credit card ready so you can purchase one if questioned.

Sorry for making you feel like your energy is being sucked up. Some hospitals in Au consider working in an aged care facility as experience but then again, it would be harder to move up in acuity than to move down( its easier to move from hosp to aged care than from aged care to hosp). If hospital setting is really your passion, maybe you can try aged care and get permanent residency first, and after that move on to hospital setting. If it is your passion then nothing should stop you from going. Actually I accepted the aged care work not mainly for the reasons you cited above. I accepted it because it was the first employer willing to sponsor a 457 business visa. I sent hundreds of applications for months. I got interviewed and was offered jobs in hospitals but they were not willing to sponsor. At that time they were only hiring parttimers and casual pools. and 457 requires fulltime work. From time to time I still get phone calls from hospital settings as a result of the applications I sent almost a year ago and this time they are willing to sponsor me. (remember, I have 3 years medical-surgical experience and from a very good hospital at that) but I turn them down. I love aged care. I love the setting. I love the challenge. Clinical skills wise in aged care, really, to be honest is a no brainer. you can do it with your eyes closed. But still it is very hard to finish everything. the key to success in this area lies in your ability to manage and lead a team and in your ability to think proactively. I like what I do. While crazy days do happen, more often than not, I go home and have a really good sleep, knowing that I have made such a huge difference. My DONAC ( director of nursing) loves me for the effort i bring to the team. My colleagues are happy to work with me. And I get so much satisfaction when some residents would genuinely tell me they are glad I am here. I love palliative care (contributing to a peaceful death- remember V. Henderson?) and besides, though my hourly rate is lower compared to hospital setting, I can earn more than my hospital counterparts if I like because I can do lots of overtime because there is the need. ( for hours worked in excess of 76 hours in a fortnight, they are paid 53 aud per hour. But that's just me.

It would be easy to find a job in Australia if you have years of experience under your belt. These days it would be near to impossible to land a hospital RN job if you have little or no experience especially in cities. But this does not mean that there is no way for a non-experienced Filipino RN who successfully got registered with AHPRA to get an RN job. Aged care is not very popular with newly registered Australian RNs and there are quite a number of places vacant in this sector. So if you are open to aged care nursing, there is a good possibility for you to be sponsored a 457 visa. If you do your research, you can actually find aged care providers that offer good wages and have good working conditions. Some really do suck but others are quite fine. I actually quite enjoy working fulltime in an aged care setting in a small town in Queensland. I am a level 1 RN and I get a base pay of 26.74 AUD per hour. I work full time and I often get overtime because the facility often has difficulty in getting agency nurses ( as a rule, employers generally do not want their employees to go overtime). When shift allowances and weekend penalties are included, I normally get a fortnight's pay between 2500 to 3400 AUD before taxes. And for someone who is used to getting 14k php per month as a nurse in the Philippines, that's not bad at all. But don't get the idea that aged care nursing is easy. It is not easy and that is why it is not very popular among newly registered nurses. I find it easy because I have 3 years of medical-surgical experience and have more than two decades of managing different types of people. Acute care experience is helpful if you want to work in aged care. In aged care, the RN is the highest skilled staff and you don't get enough support from clinical nurses because chances are, you will be working on your own, with EENs, ENs, and AINs under your supervision. This is particularly true during late shifts and night shifts. If you are up to taking care of 40 high care residents, 40 low care residents, 10 secure dementia residents and 4 to 5 palliative care residents and at the same time managing 6 to 10 nursing staff (EENs, EN, AINs);then sign up for aged care nursing Your duties will include: administering regular and prn medications, authorising EENs to give PRN meds; you do peg feeds, ngt feeds, wound care, colostomy care, tracheostomy care, managing oxygen therapy, continence care (inserting and removing catheters)teaching AINs, managing ****** AINs (oh yes you will have heaps of em), assessing, making care plans, ensuring plans are carried out, evaluating, documenting, etc.. You will also have 2 to 5 residents on syringe drivers for their pain meds. You will answer phone calls from family members, appease them if they are irate. You will change the roster and find replacements if a staff or two will call in sick( sometimes you spend an hour looking for replacements). You may have a resident or two who are psychotic, sometimes you would be lucky to have a bipolar resident who would b**ch the RN and staff for any issue under the sun. You will always have residents that are sundowners, residents that keep on wandering, and high care residents who abscond. From time to time your residents will have asthma attacks, will get really huge skin tears, sometimes a resident will have a TIA on your shift, sometimes a resident will have a stroke, an MI, shortness of breath, a head contusion, a hip or femoral neck fracture etc... Being the highest skilled staff, you will assess, give immediate intervention, decide whether to call the ambulance, call the doctor or call the family. You will experience residents die. You fill out loads of forms, incident reports, progress notes, ACFI notes. You normally will have 2 med rounds in the early and late shifts. Each round takes approximately an hour and a half to two hours to finish. Some days are really good but some days could really get crazy. At the end of the day, you realise that,well, that is what you signed up for; so you can't really complain. If you are the type of person who can think on your feet, and if you are not so choosy even if you have no experience, you will surely find an RN job after you get registered. There is one way to find out: get registered and see what happens! Cheers.

General skilled migration is different from long stay business visa subclass 457. When applying for a subclass 457, you will need the ahpra license, police certificate/ clearance, passport, an approved business sponsor, health cover, medicals, and proof of english proficiency( ielts or OET). Better send a scanned copy of the original results for the english exam to avoid hassles, although in my opinion, you can argue and convince the case officer that you don't have to send the ielts since you already have the ahpra license and that without the ielts, you will not be granted the license in the first place. Try to talk to your case officer ( DIAC) for any concerns; you will be surprised that they are really so very reasonable.

I agree. arntp is a good option if you have 2 years experience.

I did not finish arntp from unisa. I had undergone BP in one of the hospital providers in Perth. ARNTP is different from BP. It was in place before the AHPRA came into effect. When AHPRA came into effect, it has to recognize the UNISA arntp pathway. arntp comes in between the Bridging program and Conversion course. Just like any conversion course, some universities do not require eligibility letters as long as you meet their entry requirement criteria. But to make sure better contact unisa and if you do please share what they have to say about this.But based on their flyer, eligibility letters are not required.

The University of South Australia's Australian Registered Nurse Training Program (ARNTP) is a non-award professional certificate for registered nurses who already hold a diploma or degree in nursing. This program prepares overseas qualified registered nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia's competency standards to register and practice as a registered nurse in the Australian healthcare system. Students who successfully complete the ARNTP will be eligible to apply for registration as a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia under the new national registration and accreditation scheme. Entry requirements apply, but eligibility letter from ahpra is not one of the requirements. http://www.unisa.edu.au/nur/what_we_do/pdf/ARNTP_flyer.pdf Therefore, you will have to submit your application to ahpra when you already finish the arntp, not earlier, otherwise, ahpra will assess your application and will issue an eligibility letter to take the BP. If you apply after you finished the arntp, you will be issued a license. As to the time frame of license issuance, it is anybody's guess. As for the format of the cv, please take time to review the part 1 of this thread and start around page 600. Good luck to you and congrats for being accepted at unisa.

way to go isobelle!

@nosaj 1.5 to 2k aud per m0nth of stay should be enough show money. In my case before i only had 300k php in my acct and my 456 was approved. If you have more than that i think that would be great. Although I know of a colleague who only had 100k php plus a letter of support from an australian resident relative whose 456 was also approved, it would be advisable to be on the safe side and show at least 300k php.

To those who are thankful because my posts have helped them in one way or another, you are all welcome. The pleasure is mine. Really. I am always glad to be of help and will continue to do so if time permits. And thank you too for your kind words. Mabuhay!

internship is equivalent to our rle rotations where we apply the nursing process (adopie) to persons, families, or communities under the supervision of a qualified clinical instructor observership can also occur during our rle hours when we had the opportunity to observe competent nurses perform nursing skills. during observership we do not touch the patient. this is true during orientation to new wards, or facilities. it can also occur post-license period as when you are oriented for two weeks before work or before commencing a volunteer job. the defining factor really is that you do not touch the patient and do procedures. you need to include these info in your cv under work/practice history. you can be very detailed about this or you may opt to summarize. the important thing is that you provide the dates, area of practice( whether it is acute care, medsurg, pedia, maternal, pscyh, community health etc..), brief description of the types of patients seen, and nursing skills involved. make sure you can submit appropriate documentation to support. If your school can provide you the rle clockhours/ breakdown of rle clock hours so much the better. If not, you ask your dean to give a certificate as to the veracity of the rle duties/ and areas. post grad trainings, where you apply the nursing process and touch patients, include them under practice history; if your training does not include direct patient care, place it under observership. under clinical and procedural skills, I suggest that you outline all the basic nursing skills in table form and indicate beside each skill whether you are competent or whether you have just observed those skills. I dont know about your school, but in my uni we were required to be assessed as competent on a list of nursing skills. from assessing health,vital signs taking to asepsis, patient safety, hygiene, environmental care, bedmaking, cbg, collecting urine,stool specimen, medication administration,all the routes, skin integrity and wound care,perioperative skills, activity and exercise, pain management, nutrition, ngt,tube feedings, fecal elimination, enemas, urinary elimination, catherization care bladder irrigation, oxygenation, iv therapy etc.. to be assessed as competent, we must be able to show the clinical instructor that we have performed the skill independently and correctly at least three times and it has to be witnessed by the instructor. so we need at least 3 signatures beside each skill. It took us a long time to accomplish because there were more than a hundred skills involved and there are limited opportunities for the performance of some skills, but the checklist complete with 3 signatures and the or/ dr cases are required for graduation. If you have the same checklist, you can use that as guide. or you may use this http://mcintranet.musc.edu/clined/PCTStudentTech/CON%20Nsg%20Skills%20Checklst%20MUSC.pdf or you may make an outline of all the skills using your kozier as guide or taylor's clinical nursing skills. In australia, you are also considered as competent in a skill if you know the rationale, theory, have determined the safety, patient benefit, and have performed correctly the skill under supervision of a competent nurse at least three times. It may seem overwhelming, but in Oz, you are not expected to be competent in ALL the nursing skills. I think no nurse will ever be. But you must at least be competent in all the basic nursing skills. madugo talaga to prepare this cv. but it is not that hard.