Health ministers have approved additional streamlined pathways to registration for internationally qualified registered nurses. It will significantly cut the time and complexity for eligible applicants wanting to work in Australia. NMBA Chair Veronica Casey shares her thoughts.
The numerous requirements for passing exams for doctors and nurses make the process not only frustrating mentally but also financially for many. I am a doctor with extensive experience in cardiology and even teaching at a medical university, as well as organizing medical care in extreme conditions, and I could not overcome this entire cumbersome process of obtaining a license. If Australia really needed highly qualified nurses and doctors, it could be done much more simply and without such a huge number of "experts" who sometimes do not even have an idea about the organization of health care.
Consider streamlining the NP endorsement process. No way to verify progress and is very clunky. Understand the needs for safeguards and the process makes sense but the implementation and execution currently from a consumer/applicant is frustrating.
Anna Bennett
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For internationally qualified nurses who gained their initial nursing qualifications in the Philippines or India but are currently registered and practicing in an NMBA-approved comparable jurisdiction (such as the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Spain and Singapore), does this new standard allow them to apply through the streamlined registration process? Or would their original qualification still require further assessment despite their experience in a comparable jurisdiction? Thank you!
Perhaps there’s a slew of US nurses keen to come over, they can at least know they would get paid here.
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1wI think the nursing registration process needs to be review especially for someone who has studied nursing in Australia for a period of two or three years to get a degree or diploma should not be required to undertake the English test. There’s so many people who finished their studies here in Australia, but are not registered due to the English test, because the English test is designed in a difficult way. The English test has nothing to do with nursing. Most people like myself are finding it difficult to pass the English test and they’re feeling frustrated and just finding another job to do. I will recommend that AHPRA please review the English test for people who study their nursing in Australia and has lived in Australia and work here for over ten years. That’s one of the reason Australia is always lacking nurses to work.