US Nurses Wishing to Work Overseas

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I am starting this thread as a sticky at the request of one of our members, for a place for those that wish to emigrate from the US to work as an RN.

Please feel free to post your concerns and questions about working overseas here.

Depends on the immigration requirements of the specific country, they are usually different from the licensure requirements.

Right now the accelerated program of less than two years are not accepted out of the US for immigraiton.

Depends on where you wish to work. Which country? If the UK, it will be almost impossible to go there to work as a foreign nurse as they are laying off British nurses at the moment, and have placed a hiring freeze.

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Specializes in picu, transplant liver/gi, hem/onc.

hi suzanne

i would like to move to spain. i was just there and was checking out the different nursing jobs, they pay very little. i have a bsn, been a nurse for 17yrs, have experience in picu, pedi gi (endoscopies, colonoscopies...etc), also i was a clinical care coordinator for pediatric/adult liver, intestine and multivisceral transplant in the second largest center in the world. i do speak and write spanish fluently. i will be obtaining hopefully soon my EU passport. however in the meantime if i find a job, can i ask for a job permit? i am an us citizen married to an italian. what do i need to do to get my rn license there? and what do you suggest about finding a job there? i was thinking of getting certified in laser hair removal and some cosmetic things to see if i can be more marketable and make a little more money. what else do you suggest? any links you have where i can find some info? any american companies there that are willing to hire american nurses?

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For anyone who may be interested, I had a good experience working in the UK with continental travel nurse (www.continentaltravelnurse.com). That was in 2003/2004. You only had to comit for 13 weeks, but I stayed for over a year. They will help you with the UK nursing application process, which took me about eight months. I also had a good experience in Australia working for CCNA. The application process for the Australian license was more complicated and lenthy, and I had to make a one year comittment, but the pay was much better than in the UK. The work was easier in both places compared to US nursing, which helps to compensate for the lower pay. It was a great cultural experience though, and have no regrets.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
blackford1 said:
For anyone who may be interested, I had a good experience working in the UK with continental travel nurse (www.continentaltravelnurse.com). That was in 2003/2004. You only had to comit for 13 weeks, but I stayed for over a year. They will help you with the UK nursing application process, which took me about eight months. I also had a good experience in Australia working for CCNA. The application process for the Australian license was more complicated and lenthy, and I had to make a one year comittment, but the pay was much better than in the UK. The work was easier in both places compared to US nursing, which helps to compensate for the lower pay. It was a great cultural experience though, and have no regrets.

In the last 12 months things have changed greatly in the UK and nursing has been badly hit with nurses being laid off, also immigration has changed and very hard to get work permit. Also NMC have changed a lot of things which have to be done before they will issue you with a number and even once you get this does not guarentee a job.

I am glad you had a good experience unfortunately very hard if not from the UK or EU at the moment to find a job in the UK

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Specializes in Not enough space here....................

I'm looking at working for ARAMCO in Saudia Arabia. I've just started the process. It doesn't appear that they will decline my two year ADN, but then again, I've almost completed my BSN....

Any comments, ideas, knowledge about ARAMCO?

Thanks,

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nurselivie said:
hi suzanne

i would like to move to spain. i was just there and was checking out the different nursing jobs, they pay very little. i have a bsn, been a nurse for 17yrs, have experience in picu, pedi gi (endoscopies, colonoscopies...etc), also i was a clinical care coordinator for pediatric/adult liver, intestine and multivisceral transplant in the second largest center in the world. i do speak and write spanish fluently. i will be obtaining hopefully soon my EU passport. however in the meantime if i find a job, can i ask for a job permit? i am an us citizen married to an italian. what do i need to do to get my rn license there? and what do you suggest about finding a job there? i was thinking of getting certified in laser hair removal and some cosmetic things to see if i can be more marketable and make a little more money. what else do you suggest? any links you have where i can find some info? any american companies there that are willing to hire american nurses?

In order to work in Spain, you will have to pass their nursing exam as well as the language exams. Since you trained out of the EU, you will have to meet their licensing requirements for the specific country, no matter if you have a passport from there or not. Are you actually giving up your US citizenship? Or are you getting residency based on being married to someone from the EU?

Sorry that it took me so long to answer this as I do not go thru every thread every day. Any questions that are directed to me should go to the Questions for Suzanne thread, I always make time to visit that site frequently.

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And as far as the cosmetic procedures there, you will need to find out if it is in the scope of practice for an RN to do over there. Some rules are significantly different.

Training in the US for that usually will not give you the certification that you need for over there, if it is permitted.

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Specializes in CRITICAL CARE.

overseas oppurtunities for us nurses in middle east. some of the very good hospital in united arab emirate are keen to provide jobs for western educated nurses. here in emirates most of the hospitals prefer to give oppurtunity to us nurses. to get work permit and migrate to these countries you have to first clear hospital pretest and interview. if you are successful in that than they will forward you some formalities papers you fill those papers and forward. dont forget to get stamped your document like your degree certificate from the embassy of that middle east country in the us. in most of middle east countries earning is tax free, free housing and much more is provided. links of the hospital in dubai and other emirates who prefer to hire western nurses:

http://www.tawam-hosp.gov.ae

http://www.belhoulspeciality.com

mahirn

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reply to karinerock:

I would be very interested in any advice you could give me, and American RN (diploma-3yrs) who works in the OR (Theatre) and would like to work in France, preferably a private practice. Are there ever private duty nursing jobs in private homes? I'm just trying to live out a life-long dream before I retire...

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henrysnana said:
reply to karinerock:

I would be very interested in any advice you could give me, and American RN (diploma-3yrs) who works in the OR (Theatre) and would like to work in France, preferably a private practice. Are there ever private duty nursing jobs in private homes? I'm just trying to live out a life-long dream before I retire...

First, you will need to qualify for licensure there, which means passing a language exam as well as their nursing exam. Both are very difficult to do there and the govt does not make it easy for you to do. Once those steps are completed, then you would need to have an employer sponsor you for a work visa. And those are very hard to come by now if you do not have at least a EU passport. Even to do provate duty nursing in homes, you need to have a visa that will permit you to work there. Same steps only reverse that a nurse from there would need to work in the US.

There are some links already posted to get started with the licensing process in France.

Best of luck to you.:balloons:

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mahirn said:

overseas oppurtunities for us nurses in middle east. some of the very good hospital in united arab emirate are keen to provide jobs for western educated nurses. here in emirates most of the hospitals prefer to give oppurtunity to us nurses. to get work permit and migrate to these countries you have to first clear hospital pretest and interview. if you are successful in that than they will forward you some formalities papers you fill those papers and forward. dont forget to get stamped your document like your degree certificate from the embassy of that middle east country in the us. in most of middle east countries earning is tax free, free housing and much more is provided. links of the hospital in dubai and other emirates who prefer to hire western nurses:

http://www.tawam-hosp.gov.ae

http://www.belhoulspeciality.com

mahirn

mahirn - do you know how the pay in these hospitals compares to those in the us?

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Specializes in CRITICAL CARE.
RwanRN2b said:
Mahirn - Do you know how the pay in these hospitals compares to those in the US?

Pay scale in comparison with US hospital is quite good , as u dont have to pay any tax here, comodities are cheap in compaison with US and the best is stress of job is less.Here for the head nurse salary is around $ 3500-4000/month and i think there is no much difference if u calculate ur salary after paying your all taxes there and in this salary.

mahirn:trout:

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