eddie007

TEll me that it's true....

That nursing in Australia is full of friendly, kind nurses who enjoy life and love nursing and are kind and friendly to their colleagues. Not the bitter, miserable moaning b*tches that I come across so often in our line of work.

Please tell me that nurses there love their jobs and wouldn't do anything else.. Tell me that the stress levels and workloads are less and that the nasty playground behaviour doesn't happen.

Australian nurses are nice people aren't they? and the Brits that nurse in Oz are just as lovely as the Australian nurses...

I don't want you to tell me that the bed pans smell of violets, but I do need to know that it is a better place to nurse.

purple rain

Hopefully I will be there soon so I will let you know, however I suspect it's the same s**t different country!!!!! and slighty more sunshine
jacqui

Grayling

Why do you think there is such a shortage?

G

debbiemc

you had a bad day then!!!!!!

well,my mate who runs a unit in townsville says 'same ol shit, nicer place'!!

debbie

amanda76

i will be happy with that!!!!

desperate or what

mandi248

Me too! did another 18 hour shift on Tuesday!! surely they have shorter hours than that

Grayling

Come on

You know that 18 hours is not a normal shift. It sounds like a double shift to me.

In Australia 12 hour shifts are normal in many places.

G

mandi248

No I know it's not a normal shift, neither was it a double shift. I work in theatres and part of my contract is emergency work, so my shift is 12-9 then on call from 9, so we stay until all the emergencies are done. We no longer have night shift and haven't had for a good few years. Some of us want to bring back the night shift but the higher management don't want to!! The ODP had been there from 8 in the morning so she'd done a 22 hour shift, because it's such a grey area, i.e. emergency cover it doesn't come under the European working directive!!!

Grayling

So you think it will be different in Australia....Given their nursing shortage

Same shit...different bucket.

G

mandi248

Haven't you posted this "saying" somewhere else well at least the sun shines more I've also spoken to nurses who work in theatres and they cover the theatre with shifts for the full 24 hours, like they do in other hospitals here, the hospital I work in is one of the few who operate the way they do, also it's one of the few without their own trauma team, some of the regs that come here can't believe that the sames nurses cover all the different specialities including trauma, you could say that our hospital is a little antiquated (?sp) but we cover a very large area of Shropshire so the majority of the emergencies and trauma come to us, so we can be extremely busy for a "small" county hospital.

paulb

PMd you Mandi.

mandi248

Have answered

paulb

Thanx Mandi

RReed

Nursing varies to some degree from state to state, city to rural. You would need to find out about the actual area you are planning on settling to get the specifics.

But, nursing here is the same as the UK in that the work is hard; the money is shit; the politics are about cash not people; the back-covering paperwork is a joke; there are not enough staff to provide an adequate service; the staff whinge about work and fantasise about alternative careers; there are too many managers/pen pushers and not enough lackys.... and I could go on.

However, for me the lifestyle outside of work is worth the shit inside. I only work part-time (new for me). I don't think I could cope with full time. I also do plan to escape into research/lecturing within 2 years.

So, basically don't move here to improve your working conditions. Move to improve your lifestyle.

Rachel

eddie007

Oh Great... perhaps we need to go on HIS trade (he is a panal beater)

Yes I had had the worst sort of day... but inspite of all you say, all the Australian nurses I have worked with have been great fun.. really nice, never met a nasty one yet....