suzanne62

Just to chill down A bit I drive A Pink Mercedes A160 that I call my Barbie car.:sofahider

Hi I worked in the UK for 20 years before coming here so I have a superan pension over there I am not sure what to do. Its true you can bring them over here but there pension scheme is not like ours even if you pay into a pension they give them to you as a lump sum not a payment until you die so it is up to you to invest it and get a good income from it, you can get your pension paid over here when you retire but they are trying to change things which woudn't be in my favour as they are on about making it an average of your salary rather than your final salary. You can get pensions that pay out monthly here but apparently they are very expensive. Helped you or confused you I don't know!!!!!!!! Suzanne:crying2:

HI Fran we moved to New zealand 2 1/2 years ago we love it. I went through an agency who were great but they charge the hospital 10% of your first years salary so going it on your own I think they will be more likely to give you a relocation fee. You would have to ask as they don't offer I didn't but a colleague who got a job at the same hospital said he did. If you have two kids I think it would be wise to stay away from the big cities as if you need child care it will be more expensive, and the don't start school here until they are 5. I live in a place called Whangarei which is a small population of about 50,000 sbut has a hospital that covers a lot of the out lying areas. They are always looking for nurses especially scbu. If there is anything else I can help you with you can e-mail me Regards Suzanne

Thats correct, we use pentax and they don't have to be white balanced like the olympus. You do it once and then thats it unless you have a problem with the colour or you use another light source. Also if you get a loan scope you need to white balance before use.:rotfl:

I was wanting to know what prep people use for colonoscopy. We use picoprep 2 pkts one at 8am and one at 7pm. we still tend to get a lot of liquid faeces especially on the afternoon cases. I also think its cruel to give some one bowel prep at such a late time so they are up half the night going to the toilet. I also read a piece of research in a pubmed abstract about low residue diet, they stated they and done a trial on 150 patients half being on low residue and half not and their was no diference in the outcome when they had a barium enema. Any body have any thought on this.

Hi Tracy I came over to New Zealand Two years ago and have hospital based training, I think this is accepted the same as degree or diploma. Another way to get help if you are defininetly coming is to get in touch with a nurse agency to get you a job, they will be up to date as to what qualifications are accepted and will also get you a job at the same time so that will get you the extra points to put on your application. That is what I did and here I am in sunny Whangarei

I applied for registration in nz no bother I sent for the documents, then I all I had to do was send them confirmation of my registration from my school of nursing and get some one who I worked with to send verification on the form supplied by them.

I trained under the hopital based training system in the UK and don't have any diplomas or degrees and I am working as an RN in NZ

I worked in endoscopy in the uk and most of what you have said applied. If they had no one to stay with them they were kept in over night or cancelled. I now work in New Zealand and they don't seem to worry about that here as long as you have some one to take you home. :balloons:

Hi clean Queen its a pity you didn't get my message before you went on holiday as you could of visited us. You said you work in infection control I don't think their would be any jobs in Whangarei in that field, but if you are willing to be flexible their is aways vacancies here. Especialy in theatre where I am and I C U. I don't Know about the ambulance service but I'm sure I could find something out for you. What kind of things do your boys like to do. Sport is very big here, their are lots of football and Rugby teams hockey is also big here. There are cycling clubs lots of good places for fishing and kyaking is also popular. Lots of walking routes. If you let me know what they like I can find out for you. If the older one whats further education thie is a polytech in Whangarei although I don't know what you can study there. Nursing doesn;t pay as well as at home but really you come for life style here although their is a big drive for pay parity with police teachers etc same as at home. I am top staff grade which is about $43,000 per annum. Property is cheaper here in the fact your money goes further we have a five bedroom house with just under 4 acres of land and we paid $450,000 even in Hartlepool where we lived when we left we could get a four bedroom nice house for that but our neighbours would have been probably 10 feet away either side. well thats all Ican think of foir the moment I hope that has been helpful get in touch if you need any further info Regards Suzanne We have just returned from a 3 week trip to New Zealand. We managed to see a lot of the main places on the North Island, but Whangarei and a place called Wanganui, on the West coast below New Plymouth were our favourites. It would be great to hear from you again with some info about living and working in the Whangarei area. We noticed there was a big hospital there which apparently covers most of the Northland area. As I mentioned in my previous message, I currently work in Infection Control and my husband works for the ambulance service. Any contacts for these areas would be really helpful. We have two teenagers, one 16 and one 18 years, any info on stuff for them to do in that area would also be a great help. Looking forward to hearing from you

Hi We have been living in New Zealand since Sept 2002. I went through an agency which was very helpful, I can't remember the name of it but their are plenty. We went straight for residency as the goal posts change a bit and you never know if when you come to reapply you will be still eligible. We live on the North Island in a place called Whangarei about 2 hours north of Auckland. It only has a population of about 50,000. If you like the big smoke and lots of clubing then this is not the place for you. A beautiful place for your children to grow up in.