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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
23 07 2011 20:12
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All future nurses will be trained overseas; the SA Government has already started funding a training programme in Vietnam, whilst many Australian nurses can’t even get a job. The ANF are supporting this and I guess that is why they take our money and never help us, they are putting money into training Vietnamese nurses to take over our jobs. What a disgrace. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
01 03 2011 18:47
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prior to Medicare, the system had free medical services in public hospitals to those that qualified and everyone else had private insurance which covered EVERYTHING. the health system worked extremely well and everyone was happy. We had plenty of nurses due to hospital training, who were paid for the entire 3 yeaRS, EVEN WHEN IN THE SCHOOL FOR EDUCATION BLOCKS.wHEN YOU WENT ONTO BLOCK, ANOTHER GROUP CAME OUT AND REPLACED YOU ON THE WARDS AND UNITS.
It really did work and produced fine nurses that wanted to be there |
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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
27 01 2011 21:40
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| Foxylass |
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Good on you Gordo. I hope some scrutiny actually occurs.Knowing one govt agency slapping another govt agency on the back though I remain sceptical. |
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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
25 01 2011 22:30
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| Foxylass |
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Dear Guest, ACFI is to aged care what TREND is to all other nursing specialities a PIA designed to drives us to distraction and assist bean counters to understaff and underfund.
Dear Gordo, It is disgusting that RNs trying to return to the workforce be made to work for nothing or be left paying $10K for the pleasure. Quite ironic given pollies all banging on about filling the staffing gaps! Overseas nurses wouldn't be put through this ordeal.Your poor wife has my sympathies. Trust our govt to screw nurses yet again. Gee, and we have the choice of dumb and dumber to lead this state and manage health care ??? We are all screwed as residents of this state. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
25 01 2011 11:08
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Dear Foxylass,
I am an ED and Mental health nurse and have tirelessly been trying to get into aged care but because I don't know anything about ACFA (or as I now it accreditation) it goes against me as it is an essential criterion. Can you help me? |
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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
01 01 2011 15:52
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Great, Gordo, that means we have to go through this shit again in less than 6 months and they can't even handle the ones they need to do now let alone for the whole bloody country. I was also not informed when I applied that my fee was for lees than 6 months, so does that mean that our fees are actually $200+ for 12 months?? I am still waiting for my registration after graduation and I have lost income because I actiually had a position I could have started before xmas, which is when most previous years graduates were able to obtain their registration in NSW. Is AHPRA going to be able to continue to hold us to ransom? Very frustrated and disappointed newly graduated RN, fantastic way to start my new career and a great insight to the stupidity of beauracracy!! |
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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
20 12 2010 20:07
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Dear Gordo,
I wasn't suggesting I was being "singled out". Having everyone register by the same date is ridiculous.I've seen this at work in QLD. If you have any problems regarding registration during the due month you cannot make contact at all with the board for that entire month because they are too "busy" to take your calls or answer emails. That was just a state board so why would a national board be more efficient.
APHRA failed to even send me a letter about my registration. I had even contacted them to ensure my address was correctly listed. Nobody that I work with who registered has mentioned an intended date for all to register either so I was not aware of this. Even the hospital management failed to provide us with sufficient information about registration with APHRA.
I think it is wrong that they are slugging us for having additional qualifications.It isn't much incentive for new RNs to pursue further post-grad qualifications when they will have a big registration fee that grows with their further education. |
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Subject :Re:Re:Registration..
19 12 2010 18:53
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I recently re-registered as my registration was due 31/12/10. APHRA has not issued me with a receipt; I could not print one from the webpage and they would only register me until May 2011. I am registered as a midwife and RN presently but when May 2011 comes around I have de-register as a midwife or pay an extra $110 p.a plus be forced to complete an extra 20 hrs CPD on top of my 20hrs as an RN. I don't work as a Midwife anymore so why should I have to do extra education and pay an additional registration fee. I feel sorry for the Midwives who are presently practising they cannot just register as a Midwife they have to register as an RN & a Midwife. So typical that the government scams us with this stupid national board. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
19 12 2010 09:32
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I know rthis is an old thread but I have just completed my university degree and applied for my registration with AHPRA. We were encouraged to fill out the forms a month before final results the "streamline the process" which would enable AHPRA to get through the alledged "30,000" new registrations they would need to process. It is now the 19/12/10 and they took my $219 out on the 24/11/10 and I am still not registered. The worse part is I am already an Enrolled Nurse that is currently registered so the email I recieved stating that it takes extra time to process because the criminal record checks are outsourced is not good enough!! AHPRA should have employed mere people to handle the influx of applications instead of holding us to ransom and stopping us from working as soon as possible. Are they going to make up for MY loss of income??? I don't think so!!! I would have much preferred going to the office in Sydney as they have already had my application for 6 + weeks so far. Agreat way to start a career!! |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
14 11 2010 18:13
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| Bernhard |
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At the 'end of the day', the only incompetence remains that of the person not preparing for the outcome. All nurses need to be aware of the changes, whether good or bad, since being oblivious of events ("Change") results in disaster only to those not keeping themselves informed. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
14 11 2010 15:40
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| ShirleiSantos |
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Does entry to practice nursing education means the same as Diploma of Nursing at TAFE??? |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
08 11 2010 10:42
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If the insurance will cost us over $650 per year it will be difficult for most to budget for. Too expensive. What are we covered for? |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
08 11 2010 10:40
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| madmavis |
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This is a confusing issue. Hopefully the union will clarify this issue in the future. I am concerned that we will lose more nurses because of this. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
24 10 2010 13:14
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| Mandyd |
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In reply to the new boards stuff up i can tell you they have i renewed my registration on the 31st of July, i paid my re registration fees they took the money but have not updated me on the system after numerous phone calls to AHPRA from myself and my employer to sort this one out im still in the dark, they told be whilst i am still listed as registered to practice this had been going on for 3 months i await phone calls that never come have had no written comunication from the national board just a handful of ph calls after i have phoned them, Apparently the hold up is a criminal record check for a drink driving charge from 12 years ago, when it was state wide i never had any issues and now i am yu do the right thing and disclose and get penalised how hard is it to do a record check surely it doesnt take 3 months has anyoone else had any prblems similar to this one? |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
30 08 2010 13:24
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| Foxylass |
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That may be true in a handful of cases but knowing how incompetent boards of all descriptions are my money is on they just stuffed up again and rather than face and fix the problem 'let's ignore it'. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
30 08 2010 08:19
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| Bernhard |
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Dear Foxylass, ...you misread that one! No conspiracy theory, but reverse the reason for the deregistration and think whether the Registration authorities may want to 'slow' or 'block' someone's registration and then put that person in a position whereby they find it difficult, tedious etc to get back on the register! -0 all very innocent of course... |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
29 08 2010 15:58
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| Foxylass |
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Do you have some conspiracy theory ,Bernhard? Or are you suggesting those who were 'deregistered' deserved it?I don't buy that. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
26 08 2010 19:47
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| Bernhard |
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Is the 'deregistration' as innocent as it would be believed? |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
26 08 2010 19:12
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| Foxylass |
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How utterly typical that ushering in a new registration system would result in people being unregistered and without any authority to undo the mistake. |
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Subject :Re:Registration..
25 08 2010 16:57
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| Bernhard |
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Sad you take offence, as if you read into it, that was a 'sarcastic comment' re the aim of the increasing charges. The "Government" controls registration, and also is more interested in 'public hospitals' so its aim is to get nurses back 'where they belong'. There were many government bodies involved in a court case in 1988, all aimed at getting nurses 'back where they belong' (which is the public sector). They don't really care about the private sector. if they did, wages would be equal in all sectors.They keep the anomaly to irritate private sector nurses, and entice them back 'where they belong'. I also worked many years in the private sector, with huge patient-staff ratios, less support, more risk etc. Always hours reduced, less senior nurses, as private hospitals are about profit, and best profit is by reducing nurse hours and nurse quality levels. This continues because nurses there don't fight enough or argue enough (don't want to lose their jobs). If all the private hospitals closed down, there would be more public hospitals. |
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