Rural nursing in Australia

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Hi all

Just have a few questions about rural nursing...I am interested in rural nursing either in victoria or nsw..I have about a year and a half experience in ED. .Can anyone recommend any good rural hospitals in either of those states that are not too small...And could you also tell me whats good about those hospitals? Im looking for as much experience as possible. Also any hospitals i should avoid??

Also can anyone recommend any good and reliable agencies i could go with as there seem to be hundreds of them popping up everywhere. Any info would be appreciated. :coollook::confused::confused::confused:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

yes i can recommend an agency that does placements for rural and remote nursing (and city as well). this is a copy of part of an email i received from this agency:

'your world medical' covers permanent, contract and casual employment for nurses and midwives across a range of services throughout australia and the rest of the world. if you're seeking a new position it's very likely we'll have a role that could be of interest to you.

to find out more about our services and the opportunities currently available please contact me on my freephone number 1300 36 23 37

vacancies outstanding:

mental health nurses

midwives - rural

paediatric nurses

rn - aged care

ed

icu

i look forward to hearing from you soon.

kind regards

anne elder - general manager

t 02 9411 7440 - f 02 9411 7305

anne, the manager, is really nice to talk to, she is a wee scottish lady but has a nice burr (i could understand her cos my parents are scottish!) she also told me all rural jobs come with accommodation and flights all or partly paid (or the hospital pays for it in some cases). here's the net address: http://www.yourworldmedical.com.au/

also try:

nursing agencies, australia

hendercare - http://www.hendercare.com.au/

mediserve - http://mediserve.com.au/

drake, australia - http://www.drakeintl.com/au/home.aspx

ramsay health care - http://www.ramsayhealth.com.au/default.aspx. they operate many hospitals all around australia, employment info is on their website.

st john of god (for perth, wa) - http://www.sjog.org.au/. sjog also has hospitals in other states and territories as well.

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hmns (health management - www.hmns.net.au/[color=#0e774a] (for south australia and country regions). now called your nursing agency, yna.

nursewest (control all the public hospitals and recruitment through nursing agencies for all of western australia) - www.nursing.health.wa.gov.au/nursewest/index.cfm

[color=#0e774a]nasa, nursing agency of south australia - http://nasansb.com.au/[color=#0e774a]. on this site, there is a site for international nurses to visit. also down the bottom, it lists all the other main nursing agencies for other states and territories. you can click on them for more info.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Hi Carol

ive sent them my resume and hopefully i could get some short term contracts with them.. Thanks for the list too its very helpful... have you done any rural contracts? if so can you tell me of your experiences?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.
Hi Carol

ive sent them my resume and hopefully i could get some short term contracts with them.. Thanks for the list too its very helpful... have you done any rural contracts? if so can you tell me of your experiences?

Yes have done some rural work but not remote nursing. I will post more tom as it's very late here and I need to go to bed soon :)

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

hi Carol

that would be great!

im more interested in rural rather than remote

would be great to hear your stories

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Specializes in ICU.

I was recently *this close* in going to Alice Springs Hospital ICU for a secondment (couldn't go in the end as my hospital refused to allow any leave without pay, even though our unit is about 3FTE over). I think for a first time rural placement, it might be a great place to consider. Alice Springs is an established rural town, but with plenty of infrastructure in place. From there you could easily transfer out to rural and remote nursing, once you get a feel for the place.

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

I spent 3 months working in a rural hospital that had 10 aged care beds that had full time residents, 5 sub acute beds and an emergency dept in NSW. I worked as the sole RN on shift with an EN. I had GP cover 3-4 days a week and they would attend the hospital for any pts that presented to ED. On the other days I would have to ring the base hospital over 2 hours away for advice on how to treat the pt and if they required transfer or admission to my hospital.

If I had gone any further into the countryside to a hospital I would have been using RFDS for advice and transport. It was boring at times for days with just the aged care pts but I had a full on cardiac arrest, peads burns and labouring woman come in (on different days!)

Let me know if you want more info.

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