Official nurses thread!

[the ps]

Originally Posted by juliej

Hi Brenda just seen your thread about qnc coming to birmingham. Do u have the date and venue for that as i am not a member of the RCN
regards JulieJxxx

Hi Julie
Sorry don't know venue or dates as it was not in the advert but if you contact the website with your CV/QNC I'm sure they will let you know. If I find out anything else will post it on here.
Good Luck
Brenda

[Bogle]

Evening all!! If you come over to Australia on a Working Holiday Visa to work as nurses, do we have to go through the skills assessment thing to get our registration? Just trying to work out how much it's going to cost because my girlfriend's getting cold feet about the whole move!! We are aiming to move to Brisbane in January 09.

Any help would be magic.

Cheers

[loufy]

Hi Brenda,
Thanks for the reply and advice, was hoping to do nursing rather than midwifery but I suppose whatever it takes eh! lol

Best wishes
Lou x

[lisa&matt]

Originally Posted by sarahb23

hi there i'm sarah 28, also with a plumber / pipe fitter and waiting for our visa. i'm one of the unfortunate aug applications so ya might get there before us! good luck anyway xx

Hi Brenda, I'm Lisa and me and my family are hopefully off to Brisbane this year. Waiting for my house to sell! although just gone on the market. You say you have applied to the QNC, did you find it mind blowing? coz i'm sat here after downloading the application pack and i feel my head is gonna explode!!!! After getting all your documents certified for the visa we have to do it again, or do i ? really confused. Can you point me in the right direction.

Greatly appreciated
Lisa

[the ps]

Originally Posted by lisa&matt

Hi Brenda, I'm Lisa and me and my family are hopefully off to Brisbane this year. Waiting for my house to sell! although just gone on the market. You say you have applied to the QNC, did you find it mind blowing? coz i'm sat here after downloading the application pack and i feel my head is gonna explode!!!! After getting all your documents certified for the visa we have to do it again, or do i ? really confused. Can you point me in the right direction.

Greatly appreciated
Lisa

Hi Lisa
If you had a skills test from ANMC then they can forward your details to the QNC if you contact them and ask them too.
Yeah it is mind blowing ....but will be worth it in the end
Besta wishes
Brenda

[gilly]

Originally Posted by libra nurse

Continue with the nursing thread, do not stop. There most be more nurses out there. It is a great to hear new nurses. Continue nurses or else the nursing thread will on the bottom soon. Hope to hear from new nurses soon

Hi Im a nurse RN Adult and RN Child working in Coffs harbour, I came out on a PR spouse visa in Oct 07. Love it here, but took a while to get used to drug names and the fact that RN's are called sisters. I keep looking behind me when someone calls me sister Dixon lol Cant believe the drugs are prescribed using their trade names, getting there now though and always have the mimhs near by. Just a point I seem to be having probs with is in Australia they need my total hours worked since qualifying so they can work out salary. I qualified in 2000 and have worked full time part time and also bank work (not altogether, Im not that keen) and all my trust provided was the total years worked. I now have to complete a statement saying I have tried every poss. way to get correct info and apparently I do a sort of self dec. Has anyone else had to do this. Also I have allowed my reg. in UK to expire as reg. here (NSW) but in UK was reg. adult and reg. child nurse over here its just one reg. What would happen if I wanted to return to UK and practise as nurse, I mean Im not planning on it but would it still be the case I could apply for both regs. again. I spent a year full time at uni for the extra qualification and dont want to loose it. Another thing (sorry) but I enquired about mental health nursing in oz re. training and the Mental health nurse guy said as I did project 2000 and completed a module in mental health that I could apply for a mental health job, that cant be right can it!! Anyway here's to all the nurses UK and OZ and good luck with all applications Gilly

[ali]

Alot of the nurses here in oz do a comprehensive training now and can apply for mental health jobs - it doesn't seem right to me as a mental health nurse myself (I also think it can be downright dangerous in some situations). I think that's why they're pleased to get specialised mental health nurses.
Ali

[colin&lorraine]

Hi do you know if there is a QNC exibition at Manchester or Leeds and if so when

Lorraine

[Brisbane or bust]

Hi gilly,
I think that if you came back to UK you may have to do a course to return to practice. You are basically in a studenty kind of role for the duration of the course. Not sure if they pay you though.

[lisa&matt]

Originally Posted by the ps

Hi Lisa
If you had a skills test from ANMC then they can forward your details to the QNC if you contact them and ask them too.
Yeah it is mind blowing ....but will be worth it in the end
Besta wishes
Brenda

Hi Brenda, cheers for that, i did get skills tested, so can i email them to send the details to QNC?

Lisa