QUOTE(Prime_Nursing_Australia @ Jul 1 2006, 02:48 PM)

Hello Dave,
To help you with your question please visit
www.codeblue.com.au our website should help you with all your questions and help you arrange
the paperwork you require to work in Australia, we have offices all over
and we would be happy to help in anyway we can.
If you have any other questions not answered on our website contact me
I will be glad to assist you.
Regards,
Chris W
Prime & Code Blue Nursing Australia & England.
Hi Dave, I'm a registered general nurse from the midlands also looking to move to OZ, I know what u mean about the morale over here

it's pretty pants!!! I was thinking of heading to Melbourne first and checking it out as I have heard a lot of good things about Melbourne from people who have been back packing round oz. There are many agencies out there willing to take you on but I decided to attempt it alone and downloaded the application form from the ANMC website, got the necessarys to go with it and sent it off for my skills assessment with £230.00, I received approval around 8 weeks later so have recently sent off my visa application for a subclass 136 visa which is for permenant residency and u don't even have to do nursing once you get out there on that visa if you don't want to, this costs around £805.00 and can be downloaded from the australian immigration website and takes around a year to be processed, it lists the different visas available to nurses on that website so u can see which one suits ur requirements the best
Well i hope this was of some use to you and let meknow how you get on.
Lou x