Leela81

Ah, 2.5yrs experience! You'll be fine. You'll find a job quickly. I hear you about the waiting though I think AHPRA are slow because they just transitioned to a national nursing board less then a year ago. Good luck with everything!

Hopefully once you get those letters in from your school your registration will go through. If you have the name of the person that is processing your application you can send it to that person's attention and the process seems to go faster. In term...

Yes, my application took a very long time as well...about 9 months to get processed. They say they try to process applications within 90 days, which it seems you are approaching that limit. You could always call AHPRA and ask them for an update. But ...

There are tons of agencies. Pick the area that you want to live in and then just google search for agencies in that area. But many agencies may not take you if you don't have at least one years experience as Carol mentioned earlier. But contact them ...

University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus has moved to DNP

Baystate Medical Center Midwifery Education Program, Springfield, MA

Right on! Nurses deserve protection from abuse just as any lay person on the street does. In Massachusetts, USA a new law passed that it's against the law to abuse a health care provider. Now actually up-holding the new law or how exactly it works I ...

Hi Zoe, How's student midwifery going? I'm a newly graduated midwife from USA and just moved to Australia a couple of months ago. Still learning lots about the different midwifery roles here in Australia and trying to find my first job. In anycase I ...

I'm going through a similar situation right now. You need to go to the AHPRA website: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/ AHPRA is the national nursing and midwifery board in Australia. Go there to get your international application and list o...

I'm thinking of working for a nursing agency and have contacted a couple of agencies. Melbourne Nursing Agency and Belmore Nurses Bureau? The Belmore Nurses agency wouldn't really give me much info about their agency or benefits and the woman was a b...

Right you are...the hell with their stinky attitude! And that's just it, there's so many agencies to choose from I don't know who to go with...so just trying to see who gives the best benefits and treats me well.

Well I sent in my application in May and it's just about finished now. But for you it will be shorter because from July-October they weren't processing international applicants due to the disorganization of being a new National nursing board. They sa...

Yes the AHPRA website is a good place to start. You don't have to take any nursing exams or anything like that. You will have to apply for your division 1 nursing registration through AHPRA which you will have to prove that you meet the educational r...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check them out. I welcome any other suggestions as well because I'm just picking these agencies randomly.

I have just arrived to Australia about 2 months ago from the USA on a working holiday visa and I'm still waiting for my nursing and midwifery registration which I started back in May. So the registration process takes a LONG time! Of course I got cau...

Hi, I recently graduated as a certified nurse midwife in the USA and I'm making the move to Melbourne, Australia because my honey lives there. I've been trying to get registered as a division 1 nurse and midwife since May 2010 but have gotten caught ...

I got a certificate in midwifery at the Baystate Medical Center Midwifery Ed. Program (very small program in Springfield, MA) and then collaborated with the Philadelphia University to get my masters of science in midwifery (all on-line courses). At l...

Thanks for the comments Lammy! Yeah, I've been working on the registration part since May! I'm hoping that it will finally be approved by December at the latest (at least that's the time frame that AHPRA is giving me). I did have to take the English ...

I would love to hear your experience and advice as I'm going through the same process. I'm arriving on a work and holiday visa in Nov. and then hoping to find a hospital to sponsor me on a 457 visa. My registation is still in process...been taking a ...

Thanks for the links. I'm a RN and Nurse-Midwife from the USA and I have applied for registration in Australia this summer and have found the transition to the National nursing/midwifery board very frustrating. I recently was told that they hadn't be...