willow
20th April 2008, 07:29 AM
Hi
This is the first time i have used the forum other than to introduce ourselves. hoping I get my comments in the right place (forgive me if I don't!). I would be interested to hear any advise or comments on the process of registering with the new zealand nursing council. It seems a long drawn out process and as I said in my introduction it is already doing my head in!!
The naive side of me just thought that NCNZ would see my registration details on my NMC statement of entry and it would be done in a zap! However, I completely agree checking is the only way to ensure they don't end up with a Beverley Allett in New Zealand!
It is the process of getting evidence from uni and previous employers that is driving me mad for our EOI. The people in human resources have got no insight into the anguish they cause when the can't find records of employment or can't be bothered and also when they say they will send the stuff either it fails to arrive or the dates and info are all wrong - Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Our emigration consultant told me to write to the inland revenue and ask for evidence of my national insurance contributions as that will give an accurate account of hours worked etc. Does anyone have any other ideas were info can be obtained just in case it goes pear shaped?
Just one thing I have realised that may interest other nurses and midwives. If you are a midwife that did the shortened course (eg already and RGN and then trained to be midwife) you will have done the midwifery training on the back of your nurse registration. When you are gathering evidence of experience don't sell yourself short and put it down as just a student midwife (they don't count any time spent as a student) because if you are already a RGN then you need to put something like RGN seconded onto midwifery training. otherwise you could lose that time on your RGN experience. obviously some student midwives will be direct entry and can't do that, don't sell yourself short. That time spent as a RGN training to be a midwife could mean the difference between getting extra points for experience or not. Also, people who have trained as health visitors can do the same, you have to be a RGN to do the degree and you could end up losing the 12 months of the training as a HV by stating student HV.
hope this is clear (more so to nurses & midwives I hope). please excuse me if i have put this in someones thread and made a mess of it!
willow
This is the first time i have used the forum other than to introduce ourselves. hoping I get my comments in the right place (forgive me if I don't!). I would be interested to hear any advise or comments on the process of registering with the new zealand nursing council. It seems a long drawn out process and as I said in my introduction it is already doing my head in!!
The naive side of me just thought that NCNZ would see my registration details on my NMC statement of entry and it would be done in a zap! However, I completely agree checking is the only way to ensure they don't end up with a Beverley Allett in New Zealand!
It is the process of getting evidence from uni and previous employers that is driving me mad for our EOI. The people in human resources have got no insight into the anguish they cause when the can't find records of employment or can't be bothered and also when they say they will send the stuff either it fails to arrive or the dates and info are all wrong - Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Our emigration consultant told me to write to the inland revenue and ask for evidence of my national insurance contributions as that will give an accurate account of hours worked etc. Does anyone have any other ideas were info can be obtained just in case it goes pear shaped?
Just one thing I have realised that may interest other nurses and midwives. If you are a midwife that did the shortened course (eg already and RGN and then trained to be midwife) you will have done the midwifery training on the back of your nurse registration. When you are gathering evidence of experience don't sell yourself short and put it down as just a student midwife (they don't count any time spent as a student) because if you are already a RGN then you need to put something like RGN seconded onto midwifery training. otherwise you could lose that time on your RGN experience. obviously some student midwives will be direct entry and can't do that, don't sell yourself short. That time spent as a RGN training to be a midwife could mean the difference between getting extra points for experience or not. Also, people who have trained as health visitors can do the same, you have to be a RGN to do the degree and you could end up losing the 12 months of the training as a HV by stating student HV.
hope this is clear (more so to nurses & midwives I hope). please excuse me if i have put this in someones thread and made a mess of it!
willow