My visa is through!
Jan 31st 2006, 8:27 pm
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Re: My visa is through!
Originally Posted by nurseali
Just to let you all know that I heard today that my visa has been issued!! I will be on my way to Adelaide early march [have to work 4 weeks notice].I have a great job at Ashford hospital lined up & I cant wait.Many thanks to all of you who have been so supportive over the past few months & to those of you still waiting good luck!
Alison
Alison
Ashford is part of ACHA, i work at Flinder private which is also part of ACHA
Feb 1st 2006, 1:44 am
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Re: My visa is through!
Originally Posted by nurseali
Just to let you all know that I heard today that my visa has been issued!! I will be on my way to Adelaide early march [have to work 4 weeks notice].I have a great job at Ashford hospital lined up & I cant wait.Many thanks to all of you who have been so supportive over the past few months & to those of you still waiting good luck!
Alison
Alison
Fab news, have a ball.
Cheers
Ginny
Feb 1st 2006, 7:43 pm
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Re: My visa is through!
Originally Posted by nurseali
Thanks Jackie, got a job on a surgical unit, 12 of the beds are high dependency. It will be interesting to see how different nursing is in Australia compared to the UK. Anyone found any major differences? 
my other half worked at Flinders private for a short while. The main differences for him were the nursing structure on the wards (RNs, ENs and PCAs) and the medication (they use trade names for drugs not generic so eg paracetamol will be written on the cards under several different names - he's found this quite difficult and feels like he has to learn his drugs all over again). He says that some things seem better and more advanced than the Uk whilst other things seem ancient and out of date. I guess you just have to accept that its probably not better or worse, just different. Have you got your accomodation sorted yet? When we came in Oct we booked into a holiday rental for a month. It can take quite a while to organise a permanent rental as their system is very different from the UKs. Hope the next month isn't too stressful!!
Elaine
Feb 1st 2006, 8:26 pm
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Re: My visa is through!
Originally Posted by Melatchcov
Hi
my other half worked at Flinders private for a short while. The main differences for him were the nursing structure on the wards (RNs, ENs and PCAs) and the medication (they use trade names for drugs not generic so eg paracetamol will be written on the cards under several different names - he's found this quite difficult and feels like he has to learn his drugs all over again). He says that some things seem better and more advanced than the Uk whilst other things seem ancient and out of date. I guess you just have to accept that its probably not better or worse, just different. Have you got your accomodation sorted yet? When we came in Oct we booked into a holiday rental for a month. It can take quite a while to organise a permanent rental as their system is very different from the UKs. Hope the next month isn't too stressful!!
Elaine
my other half worked at Flinders private for a short while. The main differences for him were the nursing structure on the wards (RNs, ENs and PCAs) and the medication (they use trade names for drugs not generic so eg paracetamol will be written on the cards under several different names - he's found this quite difficult and feels like he has to learn his drugs all over again). He says that some things seem better and more advanced than the Uk whilst other things seem ancient and out of date. I guess you just have to accept that its probably not better or worse, just different. Have you got your accomodation sorted yet? When we came in Oct we booked into a holiday rental for a month. It can take quite a while to organise a permanent rental as their system is very different from the UKs. Hope the next month isn't too stressful!!
Elaine
Alison
