Nursing in Australia
Nursing in Australia
Nursing in Australia can be quite different from nursing in the United Kingdom, Ireland, or most other countries. Nurses have a higher degree of autonomy in Australia, and it seems that nursing in Australia is less hierarchical, so nurses, doctors and other members of a multidisciplinary team work more closely.
In some facilities, wards may be broken into sections, with each nurse allocated a number of patients (typically between 4 and 6) for whom they provide total patient care.
Some hospitals employ the Team Nursing approach, where a team of nurses will take care of an entire ward. The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing total patient care, including all medications (IM, IV, PO), to allocated patients during the course of each shift.
Paperwork, terminology, abbreviations and equipment will probably be different, but in a short time, it will become very familiar to you.
Nursing in Australia gives you the opportunity to broaden your skills through skill exchange, and experience the culture and lifestyle of a new country.
RESOURCES
There are many excellent information resources available online. The most comprehensive guide we have found is
NURSING IN AUSTRALIA
A guide to working and living as a Nurse Down Under
Written by Emma Bates, a UK trained Nurse who has spent quite a considerable amount of time in Australia, working in many places in a variety of senior positions, this guide is loaded with information on just about everything you need to know, including preparing for your trip, working, getting around, traveling, and much, much more.
The guide can be downloaded and printed, and we highly recommend it to Nurses contemplating coming to Australia to live or work, or both.
To purchase this guide please Click Here!
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