A number of agencies, oh im sorry, "consultancies" have opened up for nurses for a temporary detour of over simmering piled up nurses due to the American retrogression. They either process your papers for New Zealand or Australia. Yes "mate" the salary is pretty close to American salaries and the length of time before you can actually hop with kangaroos or climb with the koalas is just less than a year compared to the 3-7 year waiting period for the USA. Interested?
I would like to tackle New Zealand first because this has started to tickle a lot of curiosities lately. New Zealand requires basically three things: a band score of 7 or higher in all parts of the IELTS, 5 months work experience. The beauty of the experience requirements is that it could be from all nursing fields from company nurse to school nurse to community nurse, even trainings. Best of all, the length of time can be comulated i.e. a 2 month training at DMC and a 3 month training at wherever. What's the third requirement? Oh nothing much, just 250,000-300,00 PHP. Whopping? Yeah, i know.
Why so much money? First, NZ (New Zealand) recognizes our RN license in the Philippines but only accepts our nurses if we undergo their bidging course. No exams necessary unlike the US but the course is 4-8 weeks and half of the fee is paid by you. Who pays the other half? Your employer does. "Good!", you might say but don't comment just yet. Most employers who sponsor your schooling fees are care homes or nursing homes and they require you to work in their institution for an agreed time (8-12 mohts usually and with pay of course) as payment for their "scholarship". A nurse in a care home receives a considerably lower amount of salary comapred to nurses in hospitals. After the agreed "tied-up" time, you are free to choose your employers.
Note though that since you go to NZ for a bridging course, you enter the country using a student visa and you need to go to proper authorities once you begin employment after finishing the course. After one pay slip, nurses are eligibe for permanent residency visas which gives you more benefits and can possibly give you access to applying to the US immigration in NZ.
"Wait, I heard of one who can let you go to NZ for PHP500,00++ even if your IELTS is below 7. Yes they can but not as a nurse. They send you as health care assistants. Health care assistants are a different kind of story. First and foremost, the occupation isn't that in demand for foreign nurses. It has been reserved for NZ natives called the Maoris. You pay twice as much as nurses because the employers who are willing to sponsor your schooling fees are scant. And since the job isn't hot, the chances for a permanent residency is slim. They say its a case to case basis, but are you willing to take that chance? In other words, after finishing your tied-up time, it's time to say goodbye.
If you actually think about it, the major disparity between the two is only because of one simple issue: your IELTS scores. "I can just go back to reviewing once I get there". Yeah right, and what about your job? Health care assistants are required to spend more energy that nurses do and the overtime is crazy. I know a lot who went there as such and their advice: Go to NZ as a nurse!
The second less popular but also gaining its own share of fame is Australia. Australia requires 7 on speaking and writing and a minimum of 6.5 in either listening or reading. The fun fact is that Australia is not a Republic and some laws are different in each state. Most states require 2 years experience and still employed from the time of application until approval. Queensland however doesn't require experience but you have to take an exam of four modules in Manila. If you fail a module, you can pay PHP40,000 per module to study again.
The expense is ranged from PHP250,000-PHP400,000 depending on the consultancy. The mechanics are fairly the same with NZ, you go there using student visa and undergo a bridging course (NZ and Ausi share a reciprocity in terms of Nurses, so once you are a nurse on one, you're a nurse on both) and can get employed after. One good thing is, you are'nt sponsored, so you can directly be employed as a nurse in a hospital.
Here are some important details for both oppurtunities. If you check the POEA for registration on these consultancies, chances are you can't find them in the roster. The law only requires recruitment agencies that hire directly and employ them directly. Since these offices only "proces" your papers so that you may study and then work in the said countries, no recruitment has taken place and no POEA required. So check their DTI or SEC or even Mayor's permit.
When you get there, you will of course study. You need daily allowance of 150 dollars a week to cover most of your expenses. Your course is 4-8 weeks, so do the math. No, they don't include your meal allowance in the expenses calculation.
After you study, there may be still be a waiting period of 10 days to 4 months before you can actually work. So you need to make sure you prepare cash for this period. You need roof and food don't you?
In a nutshell, ask about everything especially those questions your mom annoyingly asks you. This time, she's right and with the loudest "kaching-kaching" from her pocket you'll need, hell yeah
I would like to tackle New Zealand first because this has started to tickle a lot of curiosities lately. New Zealand requires basically three things: a band score of 7 or higher in all parts of the IELTS, 5 months work experience. The beauty of the experience requirements is that it could be from all nursing fields from company nurse to school nurse to community nurse, even trainings. Best of all, the length of time can be comulated i.e. a 2 month training at DMC and a 3 month training at wherever. What's the third requirement? Oh nothing much, just 250,000-300,00 PHP. Whopping? Yeah, i know.
Why so much money? First, NZ (New Zealand) recognizes our RN license in the Philippines but only accepts our nurses if we undergo their bidging course. No exams necessary unlike the US but the course is 4-8 weeks and half of the fee is paid by you. Who pays the other half? Your employer does. "Good!", you might say but don't comment just yet. Most employers who sponsor your schooling fees are care homes or nursing homes and they require you to work in their institution for an agreed time (8-12 mohts usually and with pay of course) as payment for their "scholarship". A nurse in a care home receives a considerably lower amount of salary comapred to nurses in hospitals. After the agreed "tied-up" time, you are free to choose your employers.
Note though that since you go to NZ for a bridging course, you enter the country using a student visa and you need to go to proper authorities once you begin employment after finishing the course. After one pay slip, nurses are eligibe for permanent residency visas which gives you more benefits and can possibly give you access to applying to the US immigration in NZ.
"Wait, I heard of one who can let you go to NZ for PHP500,00++ even if your IELTS is below 7. Yes they can but not as a nurse. They send you as health care assistants. Health care assistants are a different kind of story. First and foremost, the occupation isn't that in demand for foreign nurses. It has been reserved for NZ natives called the Maoris. You pay twice as much as nurses because the employers who are willing to sponsor your schooling fees are scant. And since the job isn't hot, the chances for a permanent residency is slim. They say its a case to case basis, but are you willing to take that chance? In other words, after finishing your tied-up time, it's time to say goodbye.
If you actually think about it, the major disparity between the two is only because of one simple issue: your IELTS scores. "I can just go back to reviewing once I get there". Yeah right, and what about your job? Health care assistants are required to spend more energy that nurses do and the overtime is crazy. I know a lot who went there as such and their advice: Go to NZ as a nurse!
The second less popular but also gaining its own share of fame is Australia. Australia requires 7 on speaking and writing and a minimum of 6.5 in either listening or reading. The fun fact is that Australia is not a Republic and some laws are different in each state. Most states require 2 years experience and still employed from the time of application until approval. Queensland however doesn't require experience but you have to take an exam of four modules in Manila. If you fail a module, you can pay PHP40,000 per module to study again.
The expense is ranged from PHP250,000-PHP400,000 depending on the consultancy. The mechanics are fairly the same with NZ, you go there using student visa and undergo a bridging course (NZ and Ausi share a reciprocity in terms of Nurses, so once you are a nurse on one, you're a nurse on both) and can get employed after. One good thing is, you are'nt sponsored, so you can directly be employed as a nurse in a hospital.
Here are some important details for both oppurtunities. If you check the POEA for registration on these consultancies, chances are you can't find them in the roster. The law only requires recruitment agencies that hire directly and employ them directly. Since these offices only "proces" your papers so that you may study and then work in the said countries, no recruitment has taken place and no POEA required. So check their DTI or SEC or even Mayor's permit.
When you get there, you will of course study. You need daily allowance of 150 dollars a week to cover most of your expenses. Your course is 4-8 weeks, so do the math. No, they don't include your meal allowance in the expenses calculation.
After you study, there may be still be a waiting period of 10 days to 4 months before you can actually work. So you need to make sure you prepare cash for this period. You need roof and food don't you?
In a nutshell, ask about everything especially those questions your mom annoyingly asks you. This time, she's right and with the loudest "kaching-kaching" from her pocket you'll need, hell yeah
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