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Congratulations, she's absoloutely beautiful xx

Hi Aims, it has been my experience that employers will not consider your application until you have AHPRA registration. There is competition for child & family health nurse jobs & you may well have to consider moving to a rural area for work. Some states also want you to have a midwifery qualification (sorry can't remember offhand which ones).

Very helpful info Nikki, thank you.

We put ours on the market at the end of March & are still waiting!!!

Anyone wanting a lovely 4 bed house in South Lanarkshire?? Anyone??

Hope you & your family have a wonderful new life in Oz x

You're not wrong. AHPRA was by far the worst part of the whole process for me :wacko:

thank you. Yes mine is uk. I just wondered if there is anything from the NMC I need to request other than verification of my registration in the uk as ahpra keep saying they may need more info to prove my course of study was accredited? Surely the NMC would not register a nurse if there course wasnt accredited. Its all very confusing! Wish id had the money to use an agent ha!! Thank you for your reply x

From what I can remember there was a link on AHPRA's webpage, the one on meeting the criteria & what the criteria are. The link was to a form that the NMC signed to say your course was accredited. Don't know if that's changed though.

I wish I could offer some hope Megs but unfortunately diploma nurses on this site have been having rego refused. I know this is very unfair & Australia are losing out on highly experienced nurses.

I wish you luck & greatly sympathise with your situation especially since you have lost a job over this. Employers clearly see the positive contribution UK nurses can make. It's highly disappointing AHPRA see differently.

Congratulations Toongirl that's brilliant news x

Wow congrats! That is very good news.

 

How long did it take you? I've been waiting for around 9 months and I haven't heard anything from AHPRA for over 2 months. Called them last week and they said my case worker would call me back with some feedback, but of course she never did. I've tried this before and she basically never calls me back. We are at the verge of loosing our house because we cant't make the repayments without me working. So frustrating.

Hi Petal.

I had an email at the beginning of March saying they'd received my application. Approx 4 weeks later I was asked to supply another verification from the NMC. At the end of April I emailed to ask if they'd received this & was told at this point that my application had been forwarded for assessment of my qualification. I didn't have any other correspondence until my email on 11 July saying my application was approved.

Although I've 12 months to attend an AHPRA office to prove my identity, if it's more than 6 months I've to also supply further proof of my current nursing registration with the NMC.

I have been lucky that I certainly didn't have to wait 9 months for an outcome x

I have been lucky enough to get the golden email today with my letter of eligibility from AHPRA.

My background is having a BA Nursing Studies & BSc Hons Specialist Community Public Health Nursing.

However, after 20+ years of nursing alongside colleagues who's training ranged from the old modular training through to masters level I am deeply saddened that highly trained, highly experienced, dedicated & intuitive nurses are not perceived to be 'good enough'. I will continue to support everyone on here & it's from the bottom of my heart that I hope you are all successful in knocking down & destroying the large barrier AHPRA have erected on your path to Oz xx

morning guys, just a quick update for you.I woke up to an email from APHRA....i have received notice of in principal APPROVAL registration subject to proof of identity (being passport and proofof Aus address) to present in person by the 4th July 2015.

 

though hopefully it provides you some hope they are finally doing registrations, unfortunately i was Bsc with Hons trained not diploma. it is exactly 4 months to the day i originally applied.

 

Hopefully this is a sign that many more of us will be receiving some good news............good luck everyonexx

Congratulations. It's nice to hear someone getting some good news on this thread x

I'm really sorry to hear your news abbilouiseslatter.

My thoughts are the same as the others though, that if it's your dream then you have to plough on & jump through this new hoop if it's nursing you want to continue with & not give up. I realise it is easier said than done though & I really hope you end up where you want to be.

Hi guys, just to let you know, a girl who is with the same nursing agency as me received her AHPRA registration on Wednesday this week! She applied in October and has a degree in nursing from the uk. Hope this is a positive sign for everyone and they'll slowly start coming through!...x

Thanks for this Lilmiss. It's good to hear there is movement. Hopefully, since the board are meeting fortnightly more people will start hearing from AHPRA.

I am hoping to hear something this week/early next week. They set a deadline of 19th Jun to make a decision on my case, (they chose to extend the assessment period). They haven't contacted me to extend it again....yet! but as it is tomorrow, I am hoping this will be result time.

 

I am hoping for a yes, expecting a no and a suggestion of bridging :wacko:

Good luck. Any news would be progress just now x

Hi Hayley,

Yep, we are all being driven crazy on here but at least we're all in it together.

We've got PR as well & the house is up for sale. The college I did my nursing degree at no longer exists & my transcript only states pharmacology so the NMC sent some general EU directive. I've no idea if this will be enough evidence to cover criteria 8 & will just have to wait for the outcome. Personally I'm determined to go no matter what even if it means a career rethink.

Hi everyone, just to make you aware these are 2 tweets from AHPRA this morning in response to 2 questions

DipHE is AQF level 6. IQNM Criterion 4 requires AQF7. Post reg nursing quals also considered. AQF info: bit.ly/1nDMGxh

The local Board is meeting on a fortnightly basis for those IQNM applications that require a decision of the local Board

Hi

 

Ive recently been successful in getting a nursing job with Queensland Health.

 

I'm a band 6 nurse in the UK currently in quite a small speciality. The new job I have is a new area of nursing for me. It is a band 5 RN job - I want to know if they will recognise the (many) years of nursing experience I have in the UK and put me on the top increment of a band 5 wage or will I be totally at the bottom of the band 5 scale like a NQ nurse. I will be able to get a statement from HR here to verify my years. Just wondered what other UK nurses found when moving over.

 

Also, having not worked shifts for many a year now, I am going back to shift work in this new job - on average does a normal shift pattern (nights, lates, weekends etc ) make a real difference to your basic wage.

its just that I will be the only one working to start so just making sure we can survive :wacko:

 

Thanks in advance

Rachel

Sorry I can't help with your questions but huge congrats on securing a job :rolleyes:

Someone on another forum has posted that their friend has had their registration turned down. The reason they were given is that they had a Diploma In Nursing!

I can fully understand your frustration & annoyance but has anyone actually been refused registration or been given the condition of doing a bridging programme since the new criteria was introduced? Or is it still speculation that those with a diploma will be refused?

Kelly's right, got to keep going when you've come this far Oz2014.

This is the place to rant though because everyone here totally gets where you're coming from x

Hi Titan. They have sent an 8 page document asking me to send proof of 3 further criteria on my diploma and approx 6 other various criteria on my nursing degree to prove it is equivalent to an Aus degree. (when anmac have already approved it). They have had all the transcripts etc already plus extra documentation on pharmacology etc. I think I will have to phone someone and get Anmac to send my file aswell even though I resent everything!! #stressed:mad:

There doesn't seem to be any end to this, beginning to wonder if AHPRA themselves actually know what they're looking for in our qualifications :ssign1:

Hi Titan11,

How did things go with the shadow Health Minister?

Hello everyone I have received a messaged from AHPRA, and they are going to look into the registrations. They have asked for names of those who have been waiting from last year before the framework, I am not sure what it means in terms of what actually will be achieved. I also have the shadow assistant health ministers(Oz) from labour paries and MLC looking into the situation and I will be speaking to them sometime tomorrow morning Oz-time.

Well done & thanks for all the work you've done so far.

It doesn't apply to me as I only applied at the end of Feb but perhaps those who applied before the changes will be assessed using the old framework.

Geordiegirl - reading the other tweets Ahpra also say the 'first cohort' will be getting decisions soon. Surely you and a few others fall into that category!! There have been a barrage of tweets over the weekend re: overseas nurses.

Thanks for keeping us updated. I see they've also mentioned the board is meeting 'more frequently' due to the number of applications.