mummatothebear Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Hi, My name is Kirsty I qualified as a general nurse in August of this year. My partner,son and I are thinking of doing a reccie over to Aus next October. I am aware that I need at LEAST one years post reg experience to even consider a move to Australia. Since I qualified in August I have been working on a ward in a local nhs trust hospital, it's been dreadful to say the least I work 60 hours a week I rarely see my three year old due to the long working hours and the ward is very short staffed which makes for a difficult and challenging working environment at times, not to mention unsafe. Anyway after 4-5 months of being there and trying to change things ive given up and now been offered a post in a prison as a nurse. My question is will working in a prison rather than a hospital cause me a disadvantage when applying for posts in Australia? There is a lot of talk from people that working in a prison rather than a hospital is a terrible idea and makes me a bad nurse! I completed my supervised practice in a prison and it is still very clinical so unsure why this would be the case? Im thinking of working as a bank nurse in a hospital or nursing home alongside my prison job to keep a foot in but not sure it will be worth it! Any advice would be much appreciated. Kirsty xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freesia Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Those are pretty extreme views- Terrible idea ? bad nurse? ignore them.........any nursing experience, wherever it's completed is good experience. I know one nurse who works almost exclusively in Prison hospitals- & they're always short-staffed. So keep on doing what suits you. Also loads of agency work available. Depends on your preferred area of course, but who said you need a full year's experience anyway- once qualified you can go down the 189 route. Have a look at the visa wizard & skillselect. You'll be on your way before you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 That's a lot of hours to be working when Full time is 37.5 per week - no wonder you're tired out and frazzled by the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 60 hours a week?! Who let you do that?! No thats a load of old rubbish. Prisoners need health care too and Australian prisons are desperate for staff (well they were in Victoria) I did bank nursing and agency nursing in Australian prisons with no experience of that, it was good fun. And you dont actually need any experience to practice in Australia, but any you have will benefit you in terms of confidence. If you wanted to change things in the UK I cant wait to hear what you think of nursing in Australia! BUT GO FOR IT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GilraenH Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Hi, My name is Kirsty I qualified as a general nurse in August of this year. My partner,son and I are thinking of doing a reccie over to Aus next October. I am aware that I need at LEAST one years post reg experience to even consider a move to Australia. Since I qualified in August I have been working on a ward in a local nhs trust hospital, it's been dreadful to say the least I work 60 hours a week I rarely see my three year old due to the long working hours and the ward is very short staffed which makes for a difficult and challenging working environment at times, not to mention unsafe. Anyway after 4-5 months of being there and trying to change things ive given up and now been offered a post in a prison as a nurse. My question is will working in a prison rather than a hospital cause me a disadvantage when applying for posts in Australia? There is a lot of talk from people that working in a prison rather than a hospital is a terrible idea and makes me a bad nurse! I completed my supervised practice in a prison and it is still very clinical so unsure why this would be the case? Im thinking of working as a bank nurse in a hospital or nursing home alongside my prison job to keep a foot in but not sure it will be worth it! Any advice would be much appreciated. Kirsty xxx Kirsty you need one year post qualifying experience here because Australian Nurses do a post-graduate year before they are considered to be fully qualified. Any experience is counted, and skills are always deemed transferable. You may find it challenging here too, but not because of the hours or staffing levels. It's different. Especially if like me you have considerable experience in the UK. Not worse or better, just different. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jac2011 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The reason Australian nurses do the 1 year post grad training is because they go on to specialise in an area, UK nurses do not need this and can go over an work in Australia as soon as they qualify if they so wish. I will have 6 months experience. I will qualify in summer this year and by the time I have a 189 visa in hand it will probably be spring 2015. As we know the more experience the better however with a bit of willpower and a good attitude you do not need one year... PS go for whichever job your heart wants... As long as you have transferable skills no job is good or bad. Personally I would love a prison job, nursing is nursing at the end of the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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