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shubeg wrote:

Speaking of jobs, I do have a job offer from a major hospital in Riyadh and I am waiting for the offical offer letter. My question is: does anyone know what qualifications are accepted for Registered Nurse licensing? I have a master of Nursing which is a graduate entry degree from the University of Sydney but the issue is, the degree is a 2 year accelerated degree instead of 3. Will that be an issue? I am trying to connect with people from Australia who can provide me some insight into this. If you know anyone, or have any knowledge, I'd greatly appreciate your help! Thank you

Did you submit your documents to that hospital? The recruitment people would know if your qualifications are accepted. I myself submitted my friend's document to our hospital, she'a a Filipino-Australian, got a UK and Australian nursing license and her documents were accepted. Problem is, there is no vacancy for her specialty.

As far as I know (and medical professionals can comment here), your credentials will be subject to data flow verification after the offer.  I am not sure about the 2 or 3 year degree aspect though - they are pedantic in some things but for western qualifications, they generally don't make too much noise.   Let's see if someone else more knowledgeable about this will comment.

My documents are with my recruitment agency here in Sydney and they will be doing all the work on my behalf. I don't have to do anything but I am the type who needs answers right away so I thought I will get on this forum and try to connect with someone who is from Australia and has studied and worked here in Australia.

I studied here in Australia and as far as I am aware there are only 2 such universities where one can obtain Nursing qualification in 2 years as opposed to 3. These programs are called Graduate entry Nursing degree, much like graduate entry medicine which is completed in 4 years as opposed to 5 years of Bachelor in Medicine.

I can't see why they should have any issues with my qualification considering I am a fully licensed Registered Nurse with 6 years of Radiology experience and a job offer in hand but then again I am told things are pretty black and white in some places in the Middle East and therefore they won't even consider anything different. I mean here in Australia people can do a bridging course if they see something is lacking but that doesn't even seem tot be the option there. Anyway, I will wait and find out or may be I will find someone from Australia here on this forum.