flipflop00 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hi there, Does anyone know if a UK Nursing Diploma is still accepted by AHPRA please? I have over a years experience and I did a small univeristy course to prove my CPD in the last 12 months. I made my AHPRA application back in February - and I was told then that they had made changes to the rules regarding international nursing qualifications. My concern is that they will only allow Degree nurses now. I am still waiting for a result. I keep phoning AHPRA but I do not get a sensible reply on the phone. Does anyone know if the basic nursing Diploma is accepted by AHPRA still please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Monkeylloyd1 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Hi there, Does anyone know if a UK Nursing Diploma is still accepted by AHPRA please? I have over a years experience and I did a small univeristy course to prove my CPD in the last 12 months. I made my AHPRA application back in February - and I was told then that they had made changes to the rules regarding international nursing qualifications. My concern is that they will only allow Degree nurses now. I am still waiting for a result. I keep phoning AHPRA but I do not get a sensible reply on the phone. Does anyone know if the basic nursing Diploma is accepted by AHPRA still please? There re is a thread called what's happening at AHPRA which may be worth a read! At the moment there are people who applied in 2013 who still haven't heard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megs0187 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hey guys, like many others I've been having a nightmare with ahpra!! They've had my application since February this year, I'm on my 2nd working holiday visa and stupidly didn't put my application in until a month before I flew back over as I had no idea there was such a problem! (the website at that point still stated about 10 weeks). In March I had an interview and got offered a job with sponsorship! I phoned ahpra and explained the situation and asked how long my rego would be. The guy I spoke to said all they were waiting on was my nmc certificate then my registration would be good to go!! So obviously I took the job and my boss was happy to wait for my rego. A couple of weeks later I hadn't heard anything and after several phonecalls someone said I don't know who told you that but it's incorrect! We are waiting for your certificate before your application is complete then it will go through to be assessed and we can't give you a time scale. I then had to wait weeks more before I got an email saying I needed further info from uni blah blah blah, probably sounds familiar!! Anyway my boss was very very good and put me into a team leader role which I didn't have to have my rego for....I got him put as a third party on my application and he phoned several times for me and also sent a letter to say I'm employed as ahpra told me this would help! clearly untrue! I've now just lost my job, understandably, as I'm still waiting for rego! Im registered mental health nurse with a dipHE. I've just been on the phone to ahpra to ask if having the dipHE means I would have to do a bridging course or if people are still getting registered without it! Surprisingly, they couldn't give me an answer. I got a little bit upset (exasperated rather than angry) and got put through to someone else as I explained that I couldn't afford a bridging course so this could drastically change my plans. The next person also said I had to be patient and that applications are assessed individually! She also could not tell me if dipHE nurses are still getting registered without the bridging course.......she tried to put me through to a senior case officer who obviously didn't pick up (im not sure they exist to be honest!!!) so she has left a message and promised that someone will call me back before the end of wednesday! I don't have much hope of this happening but I will call again. Just wanted to let you know what's happening and if miraculously someone gives me an answer about the dipHE question, I will of course let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megs0187 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 oh and also they only assess your qualification, they do not take into consideration ANY post grad experience unless it's a certified course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hi megs. I am afraid to say that they now will not register nurses with a diploma. It is degree or nothing. This is regardless of experience - there have been some VERY experienced nurses on here that have been refused. There are a number of threads running on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelz Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Hi megs. I am afraid to say that they now will not register nurses with a diploma. It is degree or nothing. This is regardless of experience - there have been some VERY experienced nurses on here that have been refused. There are a number of threads running on this. I'm not sure this is entirely accurate - you could do a top up degree in an area of interest such as health visiting, which would then hopefully translate into you having a degree in nursing. I completed diploma course and completed specialist practitioner degree in school health - so maybe a top up may be he answer?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Correct, except the op states she can't do a top up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megs0187 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Thanks for your reply guys I appreciate it! Surprise surprise I haven't had a call! Feeling totally deflated now I just find it so hard to understand why they wouldn't make this clear to people from the beginning of their applications!!? If I had known that it would have changed my plan completely and wouldn't have spent the last 6 months stressing about rego, money etc!! Aah well hind sight is a wonderful thing isn't it!! The reason I can't do a bridging course shelz is because I don't expect to have my refusal letter from ahpra within the next 3 months and you have to have a letter from them to be accepted on to it and my visa runs out in the new year so I won't have time plus it's around 12000 which you pay up front and I can't afford that! Sorry to repeat myself but it just baffles me that they can happily let people sit around for upto 12 months knowing they won't accept DipHEs!! Why not clearly state this somewhere?? It certainly didn't say anything on the website when I applied at tue beginning of January! I don't think they realise what an affect it has on people's lives?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globetrotters2014 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 My wife is stuck in working as a Care aide in the learning disability sector coz she too has a DipHE in mental health. But we're now resolved that the best thing for us is to bite the bullet and let her just do a top-up degree back in the UK. we feel just as frustrated as a lot of people on this link as well. Now so far our enquiries with universities back home in the UK are generally revealing that a P/T BSc top-up course will run for 2 years. My question at this juncture is does anyone know of any particular university (online or face-to-face) which offers the top-up BSc MH degree for strictly 1 year duration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinaisrar Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 is she not able or eligible to do the bridging course over there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jac2011 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 This appears to be 18 months??? Does that help a little? Its also online so perhaps a few month of the course could be studied from Australia? http://www.derby.ac.uk/online/course/nursing-studies-bsc-hons-top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire456 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 verystormy...... cant do a top up ??? where does it say that!!! hope this isnt correct !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 verystormy...... cant do a top up ??? where does it say that!!! hope this isnt correct !! Sorry, I was referring to Megs, who says she can't afford to do a bridging course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samson07 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Hi there, Does anyone know if a UK Nursing Diploma is still accepted by AHPRA please? I have over a years experience and I did a small univeristy course to prove my CPD in the last 12 months. I made my AHPRA application back in February - and I was told then that they had made changes to the rules regarding international nursing qualifications. My concern is that they will only allow Degree nurses now. I am still waiting for a result. I keep phoning AHPRA but I do not get a sensible reply on the phone. Does anyone know if the basic nursing Diploma is accepted by AHPRA still please? hi I am new on here but got asked today if I had degree because diploma isn't accepted anymore:(((( I did diploma for 2 years then topped up to get a BSc degree .... You could top diploma up with credits though it wouldn't take too long as I have age against me now 42 so I just went for top up you can do different modules ask your employer to fund them... Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samson07 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 hi I am new on here but got asked today if I had degree because diploma isn't accepted anymore:(((( I did diploma for 2 years then topped up to get a BSc degree .... You could top diploma up with credits though it wouldn't take too long as I have age against me now 42 so I just went for top up you can do different modules ask your employer to fund them... Hope that helps sorry just noticed other comments ... It would probably take 2 years I'm not sure how long each module takes? Some take 6 months I've just done one in neonatal icu because I work there and that was 6 months 20 credits you can do mentorship which is 20 credits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megs0187 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Isn't it crazy that after all the phonecalls I've made and emails I've sent, I had to get my answers from a twitter link!! Haha! No one at ahpra will confirm that they don't accept DipHE!? So yeh thanks guys, because if it wasn't for these threads I would still be blissfully unaware and excitedly awaiting my rego!! I wonder if they refund your money?! Globetrotter could your wife not do the bridging course rather than have to go home for the top up?? I've decided I don't want to top up or do a bridging course so if nothing else comes up before February I'm going to carry on with some trave I do have an interview next week as a relocation coordinator with possibility of sponsorship....ironically id be helping to relocate internationally qualified nurses into rural Australia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globetrotters2014 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Thanks for the feed back guys. At the moment the best we seem to be finding is 18 months. Bedforshire say F/T basis only, and we'll look into the Derby online one (thanks jac2011). I can't believe the headache this is all amounting to. Surely one would've thought that AHPRA would apppreciate that us British trained nurses are well competent (especially when you throw in that nurses like my wife have 10years experience in mental health. I'm glad I took the BSc option back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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