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If you want to see the world whilst you work, a health qualification is a great way to do so. For many people, the pull to go and live in a country such as New Zealand or Australia, miles away from home, where the language is the same, but the climate is (in general) a lot warmer, and the lifestyle is far more relaxed is a difficult process. But if you are looking at international nursing jobs and are a qualified nurse, you'll find there is plenty to pick and choose from.

Due to the amount of choice and the fact you are applying from overseas, it's a very good idea to use an agency to help you select the right job for you. They have an understanding of the environment you'll be working in, and once they've met and talked with you through their local offices they can match you to something that best suits.

While anyone can run a recruitment company, the best people to help you are ones who have worked in the same sector as you before. Through working with many health professionals like yourself, they will be able to find different employment practices in your new country. They can also talk through all the paperwork, which can feel a little overwhelming if you're trying to work through it alone.

Because international nursing jobs are in high demand, there should be no reason for you to have to pay for your services to a recruitment company. They recoup it all from their employer base who recognise that people with your level of expertise and qualifications are worth paying to find.

The types of positions are varied and include those for registered nurses, midwives, mental health specialists and ODP jobs. You may need to look at applying for registration in either Australia or New Zealand, so you can work there. A good health recruitment company will be able to provide more advice on this if you are unsure. Once you've been made a job offer from the international nursing jobs the agency has on offer they will also help you transition through the changes therefore helping you settle into your new country, ready to enjoy a new life and have more time to get out and explore your new surrounds.

So if you are looking for international nursing jobs consider finding a health recruitment company which specialises in Australia and New Zealand and you will be on your way to enjoying the relaxed culture in either of these countries!

Tonix Health Recruitment specialises in recruiting from the United Kingdom nurses and health professionals whose skills are highly regarded and easily transferrable skills to New Zealand. Our team of experienced consultants regularly travel to the UK and offer individualized guidance and support throughout the whole process of moving to and working in New Zealand.

Tonix offers guidance from the beginning to the very end of the process, and despite the time zone challenges from the UK, emails and phone calls keep candidates up-to-date throughout the process. When they next come to the United Kingdom, meet with them and see for yourself what they have to offer. Contact Tonix today.

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By Jeff Morrow

When looking for your next nursing job, you will most likely make heavy use of Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder and other online job boards to apply to nursing jobs. You might open up an account, post your resume, subscribe to an RSS feed so you can keep up with all the latest jobs posted.

All major job boards make it really easy to stay on their sites for long periods of time applying to an open nursing jobs.

Most job seekers will find it both surprising and disappointing to learn that major job boards offer one of the least effective ways to find your next nursing job.

Sure, the big job boards give job seekers everything for free, but they make all their money by selling both advertising and resume database access to employers.

What you are about to learn is how the major job boards give all the true advantages to the those who pay the bills. In other words, the house odds favor employers, not prospective employees.

What the Big Job Boards Don’t Want You to Know

Monster.com gathers together a massive number of job seekers, but they are all competing for a very limited number of jobs. Monster.com offers only 3% of all jobs advertised on the Internet. Most nurses and Internet surfers assume that the big job boards are just like Google and offer access to jobs throughout the Internet. But, Monster.com, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder allow access to their database of employer paid ads.

Of course employers love the big job boards because every advertised job fetches an average of 500 resumes in competitive markets.

Knowing how many resumes a hiring manger receives, it should be no surprise to find that they spend an average of 7 seconds looking at a resume.

What is a great deal for employers actually puts the job seeker into the proverbial small fish in a big pond. Imagine knowing at the outset that you have less than a 1/2 percent chance to be considered for a job interview?

To top off how bad the odds are stacked against job seekers, statistics from several state employment centers show that only 5% of all jobs are found through job advertising.

Even if you thrive in that kind of competitive environment, the online venue at Monster or the other large job boards provide no tools to help you show your excellence to a prospective hiring mangers.

TIP: If you are looking for the most nursing jobs in one place, find a meta job search engine.

Use A Meta Job Search Engine Looking for work is a full time job, don’t put in overtime hopping from job board to job board and applying to every job you find. One way you can save time is to search for all advertised jobs from Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, and 5,000%2B more job boards all from one meta job search site.

Now that you know where to find all the jobs, consider how much time to spend on this job seeking tactic. When only 5% of all jobs are found through job advertising, consider turning the 80/20 rule, or the 95/5 rule backwards. Spend less time on the less effective job searching tactics and more time on the more productive job searching tactics.

This is part 1 in a series about rethinking job seeking strategies and tactics. More installments can be found at My-Nursing-Career.

Find all Registered Nursing (RN) jobs , Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) jobs, and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) jobs.

As a former project manager at CareerPath (now CareerBuilder), and hiring manager at companies like Microsoft, Jeff has a unique perspective on what the most effective strategies and tactics to use when finding your next nursing job.

Article Source: How to Find the Best Nursing Jobs

Diary Entry #5

I went to ground zero today. My very first itinerary of the day. My aunt is kind enough to take a day off today and show me around this new city. Then we went up to the Empire State Building. New York is just so… concrete. Hehe… But there’s a big patch of green called Central Park. I plan to go there when I’m brave enough to venture on my own. And auntie mommy said we will go to the Statue of Liberty one of these weeekends. As I’ve mentioned before, my family is throwing a welcome barbecue party for me down at Jersey this Saturday. I have an uncle who lives there with his family. They have a pool and the warm August weather is perfect for such occasion. After my sight seeing up on the Empire State Building, my aunt brought me to Chinatown for some Asian food. I think she knows I’m starting to miss home and some soulfood might be good for me. She doesn’t cook much at home. She lives on either take out food or tossed salads. She said it’s too lonely to cook for herself. My cousin works up in D.C and they only see each other every now and then. I’m staying in my cousin’s room for now. I think my aunt is happy that I am here to accompany her. When I had my fill of noodles and siomai, my aunt was most eager to take me shopping. She said I need New Yorker clothes. Haha. I think what she meant was I look to shabby in my shirt, jeans and sneakers. She went out her way to revamp my wardrobe. Not that I have an actual wardrobe. Hehe… My flight only allowed 30kg free luggage. So what I packed with me are the most essentials only and lots of pasalubong for my family here. So tonight, I’m hanging up in the closet all my new nice clothes with matching bags and shoes. Ahm, my aunt is some sort of a fashion statement. So here I am, the lucky recipient of all these beautiful stuff! Can’t wait to wear them tomorrow. Haha… And oh, I almost forgot, I have a full set of Clinique beauty products. Jeez, what a luxury!

Diary Entry #4

This sucks. I don’t want to be weepy but I can’t stop crying. I just got off skype. And I miss home so much. I saw my parents on the screen and my sister. My brother is at work. I never expected to be missing them this much. How I wish I can bring them here. And we can live in the same house just as we’ve always had.

Diary Entry #3B

What a big hospital. It has its own shopping center! And you should see the facility. I’ve never seen like it. It’s like a hospital/ retirement home/ hotel, all rolled into one … I’m going to start working there in 7 days. I will first have day shifts with one patient under my care. It will be a month (or depending on my evaluation) before I’ll be allowed to go into night shifts. So for the next days, I have time for sight seeing and meet my other relatives here. Auntie mommy said we will be going to Jersey this Saturday for a barbecue party… I have to pause for now. I got to call my folks back at home

Diary Entry #2

What time is it? Ahm, what day exactly? I think I slept for a long time. Waking up on short intervals to pee and then go back to sleep… This is what they call “jet lag”. I think. Haha… I never had one before you know. My flight to New York is my first international flight and my longest one. I thoroughly enjoy my plane rides from Bohol to Manila . An hour up in the air is really fun as long as the weather is not turbulent. But 18 hours? Oh please. It made me cranky. back to sleep…

Diary Entry #1

It’s two in the morning and I’m having my first glimpse of the city that’s going to be the venue for most of my life’s stories from now on. My 18- hour flight is almost over. I can’t exactly define if I’m excited or scared. All I know is that my legs are stiff from sitting all these hours. And my body longs for a real bed…
“… We will be landing in John F. Kennedy International Airport in 10 minutes. Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened…”
New York City, here I come!!!

How hard is it really for a nurse to take care of a patient spending the twilight days of his life? How hard is it really for a nurse to take care of a terminally-ill patient? Or better yet, sum it both up, a terminally-ill patient on the twilight days of his life. I, a nurse, would say very hard.

I want to share this one of a kind experience that made the story of my life even more wonderful.

I was a nurse at a Nursing Care Home for 6 years. I have handled various elderly patients which made me quite well versed with Geriatric Nursing. At one point in my life, driven by the fact that nothing in this world is constant but change (and you may include tax and death, haha), I searched for a higher paying job. I was lucky enough to be hired in a lovely UGH. My wage is much bigger than what I used to earn in the Nursing Home and adding up to that, my experience as a nurse had definitely widen. My early days in the hospital were challenging and I was truly having fun. Everything was going great until an unlikely experience unfolded in a lesser explored area of my Nursing world.

I was receiving the endorsement of the morning shift nurse in the medical ward. One patient that was assigned to me was an elderly Chinese man. He was suffering from a complication of DM. He was bed ridden and could barely speak. I took care of him on his entire stay in the hospital (my superiors chose me because of my experience in Geriatric Nursing). Despite his infirmity he never failed to give me a smile every time I rendered bedside care and even manage to initiate a conversation. He told me the story of his life, he has 3 children and his wife has already passed away. His humility was incredible that if I hadn’t met one of his children I would not know that he was a very wealthy businessman. All of his children are stock holders of his corporation and with the fortune that they earn, they are self-sufficiently living independent lives. Days weren’t long enough for my patient; on his fourth day in the hospital he was so weak. We had to call his children because it seemed like it was his time to go. He clearly stated in his advance directive to halt every life support in the event that there is no more way to revive him and death is imminent. However, with so much love for their father, his children didn’t have the nerves to be at his side when the life support would be halted. The eldest told me, we’ll leave it all to your hands; please do this favor for us. The gruesome issue of euthanasia suddenly slapped my consciousness. I carried out the doctor’s orders. He was still breathing when I terminated the last IV line. He looked at me and forced a smile that could have read “thank you”. A few minutes passed and the doctor announced his death. They all went out of the room and there I was left in the middle, ineffably puzzled, in awe of my first consented euthanasia encounter. Suddenly I became a James Bond, licensed to kill. He was a good and respectable man and I subtlety killed him.

Days after that incident, I got a call from one of my patient’s children. He wanted to meet up with me for an important matter. We met at a café; he was with someone wearing a suit. When he introduced his companion to me I almost passed out, I felt all my saliva back flowed to the depths of my intestines. He was his lawyer and I was thinking I will be doomed for that euthanasia incident. His lawyer handed me a manila envelope, when I opened it my eyes almost popped out when I saw its content. It was a huge amount of money. My patient’s son said “it’s yours. My father wants you to have it, it’s on his will”. My mind went totally blank; I don’t know what to say. I went home thousands richer.

That experience totally changed my life and elevated my nursing experience into a whole new level, a level that was less explored yet created a seemingly huge impact.

I was five years old when my father left us for another woman. I am the eldest of three siblings and our mother took care of us ever since. She never entertained the idea of remarrying and instead devoted herself to us. She reared us with so much love and affection and I witnessed how she sacrificed to meet the needs of our family. She worked as a secretary on the morning and at night she would open our night time “sari-sari” store. Truly a woman of substance, we love our mother so much.

When I was in high school, I often see our neighbor coming home from the US. My mom said she is a nurse working in America. She would then visit us at our place and give us presents, she looked really rich. It was then that the thought of being a nurse in the US would change our present disposition in life entered my mind—I will be a US nurse someday. When I graduated in high school I told my mother about my plans of taking up Nursing, she was hesitant knowing the expensiveness of the course but after several thinking she affirmed. I saw what my mother have to go through just to finance my schooling (including my siblings). She worked day and night and embarked on everything that would augment her income to suffice our growing demands. She truly is a hero to us.

I thought of our poverty and my mother’s sacrifices as my motivating factor to succeed. Days passed and I graduated in college. I strove real hard to realize my plans. I went through all the things needed to be done and with unshakable faith and perseverance my application was fortunately approved.

I was 23 when I first set foot on US grounds. Young and innocent, I helped myself in coping up with the lifestyle of a place where I am a total stranger — and am alone. It was not as easy as I thought but I survived quite well and just went with the flow. After nine months I managed to get two jobs both as a hospital nurse. My income is really marvelous. It dramatically changed the life of my family in the Philippines. I am so happy with my success; what could be happier than to see your family very happy and contented?

I am 42 years old now and I am still working as a nurse here in the US. I have a family of my own now. My mother is living with my sister in southern California who is also a nurse. She visits our family once in awhile. My younger brother is now a successful physician in the Philippines and frequently pays us a visit here in the US. We all have families of our own now. Poverty indeed is not a hindrance to success if we have a realistic mind set of which path to take. Sowing the seeds now could be very straining but reaping the fruits and eating it is the sweetest thing you could imagine.