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Technician and nurse are the same positions in our hospital... In Bosnia, everything is different :-)

What position is the job? If they require certificates then they may not accept any application without them It's hard for me to explain. I went to secondary medical school (high school), not medical school (college, faculty..). After school I intern at the UCC, for about six months, then I passed the state exam and became a registered techinician. I got a license to work independently. With this passed exam and licence you can work anywhere in my country, so I got the job in ICU, because no one wants to work there (the job is very difficult). In ICU I'm just an ordinary technician who works all the technicians in other countries may not. Our doctors only say what has to be done and we do that. If the doctors is not present, they authorizes us to do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever! I do not have a certificate to work in ICU, because such certificate does not exist in our country. We are trained for everything in ICU. I maintain respirators, participate in the intubation/extubation of the patient, accept patients from the operating room... I'm not afraid of work, I can do anything. Can I get a job first, and then to pass examinations and receive certificates??? I have no money to go to Germany and to take all of this exams, I would have to work first. Tnx

Hello everyone... I am from Bosnia, and right now I am working at the Clinical and University Center of Tuzla. I am technician in the Intensive care unit (it's a part of neurosurgery and neurology) for over a year now. A year before that, I worked in the ICU that belonged to General surgery (abdomen, thorax, polytrauma, car accidents etc.). In our hospital we don't have any Urgent center that deals with admitting polytraumatic patients (that are not hospitalized). Every patient thats diagnosed as 'polytrauma' is admitted by our clinic (Clinic for anaesthesia and reanimation), and that is where technicians jumps in. We have to set the peripheral i.v. lines (few hours later, if the patient is very unstabile, our doctors sets the central venous catheter), we drain blood for analyses, sometimes we have to apply urinary catheters to our patients, nasogastrical tubes etc... After that we take the patients to CT, MRI or US... We have to participate in CPR, by doing heart massage. We administer Atropin and Adrenalin i.v. and some other drugs... I have to make this post shorter:-) Anyway, doctors do the talk, technicians do the walk, so we are trained for everything. Question: can I get a job in any German hospitals ICU, as trained as I am??? without those certificates that they are looking for...