Forum for overseas health workers
Stephen contacted me recently regarding a new forum he has created for both nurses and doctors which focuses on the ins and outs of working in different countries. Sounds like a great idea, be sure to check it out.
Hello All,
I’m a registered nurse from Australia who has worked in both the UAE and UK.
To cut a long story short, I got to thinking that a forum for both nurses and doctors which specifically discussed working in different countries and how to do it would be a good idea.
In my experience some information was hard to come by, I’m not talking about what employment agencies tell you but other things like, what its actually like to work in say Abu Dhabi, or is The Holy Grail Hospital in Woop Woop really going to suit my personality.
So I’ve started a forum on just this sort of thing at:
http://www.medworkworld.com/forumfolder/index.php
Anyway, if you’re interested in discussing getting a job overseas as a nurse or doctor, feel free to have a look, post a question or an answer and see how it goes. If you’re not looking for jobs OS, feel free to let a friend who is know about the address.
- Stephen
Like many nurses with a burning desire to travel and work overseas, I came to Australia on a Temporary Business (457) visa. Full of excitement and wonder, with no real idea of what to expect. Right from the beginning I could find nothing that would steer me in the right direction. Overseas nurses are expected to fumble their way through a complicated new health care system with nothing to really guide them through what is a difficult process. Although the situation has improved a little since I first arrived, and the health service does what it can to help, an eBook like this would have been really helpful and eased a lot of the worry and anxiety I had. Yes, minor blunders were made along the way trying to set up a new home, and settle into a new workplace environment, but from talking to many of my colleagues, we all made them and we all wished we had done a few things differently. There are things we wished we’d known up front, from the major items like who the employers are, to the lower priority but still important ones, such as the majority of rental accommodation is unfurnished and when you phone someone up and they ask you ‘what state are you in?’ they may not necessarily be asking how you are feeling, but what part of Australia you are calling from! I often found myself thinking about a whole range of information that would have been so useful to have known from the start and wondered why someone hadn’t shared it with me sooner? I also wondered why there wasn’t a good ‘how to guide’ for nurses, particularly because so many overseas nurses had trodden the same path before. So I wrote this eBook which I hope will make it easier for you to understand the process of ‘nursing down under’ and ease your transition into Australia, so that you will be able to ‘hit the ground running’ right from the start.
It’s called
Nursing Australia: A guide to Working and Living as a Nurse Down Under, see link below.
http://www.nursingaustralia.info
Well I’m having a fantistic time and I hope you do too. Thank you to Ross and Nurse in Australia for this post.
Just wanted to drop in and say hi, great forum here