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Hi Maria, I know it's seems a very pointless exercise, 81 pages ago I started this thread due to the frustration I was having, I am in the same boat as you in terms of training, I started my training in 1989, the hospital had its own school of nursing, no diploma or degree courses in them days. I am also RNLD trained which is an even bigger spanner in the works. although I could not get a transcript from my training school, it disappeared in the 90's, the NMC were able to send the syllabus for my course over. This seemed to be accepted at first.. timescales with AHPRA are amazing, I applied in August 2013, well before the changes were brought in, they held my application back and they are assessing me under the new criteria! other issues with them are that when diploma nurses came out, we were encouraged to do a diploma in an clinical area, so I completed mine in Epilepsy Care, as degree nursing developed, we looked at doing degrees and I completed my MSc in Sleep Medicine with distinction for me which again is another clinical area. APHRA in their wisdom do not think these will be taken into account, as neither say Nurse or Nursing in the title, however, I am on my third or fourth extension now, as I keep pushing and I have got to provide yet a third lot of info on my MSc. I still think this is a pointless exercise, despite 25 years experience in the nhs. I will keep going to the end, but have resigned myself to not being registered and not being able to move to Aus. I have since moved from adult LD to another job I paediatrics, working in mainstream and across LD children's services, I had to do something to pick me up off the floor. My new job is great and given me a new challenge, which moving was all about too! having secured a job which was held open for me for a year, had family so somewhere to live and being ready to go some 12-18 months ago apart from APHRA, To say I am frustrated with it all, is an understatement, so with no diploma nurses being registered us traditional nurses need to jump thro more hurdles!! Paul

Hi All, my my wait seems endless, having sent my application in mid August, now mid January I emailed again for an update and got the following response Dear Paul Unfortunately I am unable to provide you with any further updates. We are still waiting for further instructions from the Nursing & Midwifery Board regarding the assessment process for applications for registration for overseas trained nurses and midwives. I will contact you as soon as we are advised. wonder if I will ever receive a LOE Paul

Hi, I have had an email this week as below, I find it difficult to believe that having received my documents in August, that they want me to submit further information, they want further info on my Masters degree, as I was only able to submit results at the time and have since attended my graduation. They also want me to document when I trained, when I completed my diploma and then degree, this is because I was trained pre diploma and degree nursing programmes and had to keep pace as it were, with students education. Paul I would recommend at this point that if you are willing to submit further information to AHPRA it will be added to your application when it is considered by our Registration Committee. Could you please also include your explanation regarding your education pathway that you have provided in your recent email in a cover letter when you submit the documents?

Hi All, Further emails to and from APHRA below, still no decision as yet, seems a long time since the 12 th August when my documents were first acknowledged. Having gone through the AMNAC process an having my skills assessed as equivalent, now APHRA want to revisit this assessment or so it appears. Does anyone know if this is because my diploma and masters are not in nursing qualification specifically, the diploma being in epilepsy and masters in a medical science. Thanks. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dear Paul Due to the high volume of overseas applications Australia wide, there is currently no time frame available at this stage for outcomes of internationally qualified Nursing and Midwifery applications. I am unable to comment on the outcomes of other applications submitted. It all comes down to education equivalence to an Australian Bachelor Degree which is part of the assessment process. Please be assured that I am aware of your pending application and will contact you as soon as we have further information regarding the status of your application. Then You are welcome to contact AHPRA with questions at any time. Can I please ask if the Master of Science Degree was specific to nursing? I do not have the delegation to advise if your Master of Science MSc Degree in the medical sciences field could be taken into consideration for your current application for general registration as a Registered Nurse. You are welcome to submit further information/evidence of this qualification to add to your application if you wish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I had to resend the my CV and give cpd evidence, also because my yearly NMC renewal date passed, I had to get the NMC to resend confirmation of registration again! At a cost!

When we came over on holiday, with our 6 and 8 yr old, we did Heathrow to Kuala Lumpa, very short stop, less than an hour I think, then on to Sydney. I think this was better than if we had a longer stop, they coped better than I did, we did try to plan their sleep etc on the journey, and they had plenty to occupy them.

Hi, I know how you feel, I am about a week behind you in APHRA acknowledgement and had to provide further documents which they received in September. I will keep an eye out for your cheer when yours arrives, may keep me positive that mine will not be far behind. Paul

Hi, I started a separate thread on APHRA some time ago, my docs were received mid August and have recently been advised that there is still no timescales for international applications, however someone posted they had received theirs, having applied in July. Frustrating is the word!!

Hi, as I have been in the aphra system since mid august, 4 months since acknowledgement email, is there anyone currently receiving registration confirmation. Is there anyone else who has been waiting this long? Paul

Hi all, I had my documents acknowledged with the Victoria office back in mid August, have had various emails from you will here in the next 2 weeks to you will here in the next 2 days. My latest response to my email asking for a timescale is below. It is not very encouraging!! Paul Dear Mr Andre Thank you for your enquiry. As you are aware the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and AHPRA are currently reviewing and strengthening the process in place to support the nationally consistent assessment of applications for registration from internationally qualified nurses and midwives (IQNM). Due to the high volume of overseas applications, there is currently no time frame available at this stage for outcomes of internationally qualified Nursing and Midwifery applications. If there is any further information that the Registrations Team requires from you, we will contact you directly as soon as possible.

Hi, has anyone else experienced similar email from APHRA. As you can see from my timeline, my APHRA acknowledgement of receipt of my application was August, I was requested to send an updated cv and transcript of registration, these were both received by APHRA on the 10th September and 25th September. I had an email from APHRA on the27th September saying I would receive an outcome within 7-10 working days. On the 21st October I enquires and got an out of office reply so I emailed enquiries. The reply was I would hear in 2 working days. On Monday of this week I received the email which is copied below. Has anyone else experienced this message or will have had to wait this long in the process. - - - - - - - - - Dear Paul Since you last received correspondence from your registration officer AHPRA and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia have strengthened the processes in how we assess applications. At this stage your application is still currently under review. Once your application has been fully assessed we will be in contact. Please contact us in six weeks for an update on your application if you have not heard from us in the interim. Regards - - - - - - - - Thanks Paul :arghh:

The risks may not be higher but with media they are known about more and quicker, the obvious additions are more ways of carrying this out, online grooming, social media risks etc, it is just important to educate as best you can.

Thanks for the info, we understand the risks, what we would give up here, but I wanted to try to get a balanced view of what to expect, the issues that worry us are not major, but do impact upon some degree of happiness or success for us, my wife would not be happy if she could not work, using childcare is what we have to do here, but use sports and school holiday clubs, hopefully this would be the same. We know it will be hard socially initially and will need work from us. I think it is natural to worry about major life changes and hope that we are no different in this respect than anyone else. in terms of leave, I imagine you adapt to whatever the situation is, luckily I have been healthy and not had a sick day for over 4 years now, holidays are important, but last year we came out to Australia and I virtually used up all my years leave in one go, just had to make the most of weekends and public holidays for the rest of the year. We love our lifestyle now, I read a lot about don't use migration to change an unhappy life and poor lifestyle, quality of life etc, so if we do it we should when we are happy, with a view of positives and negatives. Hopefully that is what you are giving, a balanced view. It may be that we get to the end of the process and stop or we go for it, I guess you never really know until it is a reality and you have to jump one way or the other

No, my wife wants to work and could not imagine not working, that is more of the issue, we are not blinkered we have to use childcare now, occasionally family, but holiday clubs by the school, sports activity clubs etc. no matter how excited or positive we are, and I do not want to be blinded by media views, I guess we will always worry.

thanks, i the closer we get in the process, it is natural to worry, we have no idea how easy or difficult it will be for my wife to find work. We will only move if I have a job to come out to, but that is different for her. As it is, she would change jobs tomorrow, so that is something I guess.