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Thread moved to the International Forum since it requires information concerning immigration and licensure. We ask that anything having to do with these issues be placed on this forum as many of the local nurses there do not know the requirements for the foreign nurse to work there.

You will be working for the agency that places you there in most situations, and not as an employee of the facility, but as a contract worker. Same as travel assignments in the US in that respect.

Not sure what type of training that you have had here, but you are going to need to have completed at least the BSN to be able to work there as the training must be at least the same or more than what they are required to have. Their program is minimum of three years.

Licensure is dependent on the state that you wish to work in there, just like the US and they each have separate licensing boards. You will not be transferring your license to there, you will continue to hold what ever licenses that you have in the US, and will be issued a license there to practice if you meet their requirements.

There are several links as to the contact numbers for each of the individual BONs there, you are just going to need to use the search engine to get started.

Best of luck to you.

Travel nursing are just temporary contracts, usually only for six months or a year there. If you are wishing to move there entirely or for more than the length of the contract, you may wish to check out how to do things differently for there. With a different type of visa for a start.

Best of luck to you.

You sound like you need to do a LOT more research before you consider moving overseas.

The pay depends entirely upon your experience level, where you work, when you work etc just like it does in the US.

Australia is a big place - the cost of living depends entirely upon where you want to live.

How good hospitals are to employees depends on where you work - you can't really generalize. Do you think US hospitals are good to employees? As a rule, making money is the priority of private hospitals, and saving money is the priority of public hospitals.

You cannot transfer a US license to Australia. In fact, I'm not really aware of any countries that let you transfer a nursing license from another country. You need to meet the requirements of the state nursing board for the state in which you want to work.

Is it really nice? Again, it's a massive country about the size of the US - you can't really generalize. There are nice parts, and not so nice parts.

Do they have day care? Are you serious?!!