Nursing In Thailand?

[nephron]

I am shortly going to finish my 3 year (Australian) nursing degree, making me a registered nurse. For "personal reasons" (gotta love that phrase) I may be moving to Thailand. Assuming I learn to speak reasonably good Thai, would it be possible for me to get a job as a nurse in Thailand?

What is the pay like? Is it possible to live on?

(I'm going to ask the relationship question part of this in the relevant section)

Thanks!

[andyadam]

Occupations and professions

Prohibited to aliens

Assessment, system planning, research planning, testing, and supervisory and advisory work in connection with construction and civil engineering, except work requiring specialized skills

Designing and preparing drawings of buildings and architectural structures including consultation, cost estimation and construction supervision of the designs

Controlling, auditing, and accounting services, except occasional internal audit

Legal service and Litigation

Clerical and secretarial work

Brokerage or agency work, except work connected with international trade

Auctioneering

Shop-front selling

Hawking of goods

Barbering, hairdressing and beautician work

Tour guiding and tour promoting

Rice farming, animal husbandry, fishery, and forestry, except supervisory or specialist work

Nielloware making

Manual silk weaving

Manual cloth weaving

Manual silk-product making

Tailoring

Thai-language typesetting

Lacquer are making

Driving of motor vehicles or non-motorized vehicles and domestic aircraft piloting

Buddha image casting

Manual rice-paper making

Manual cigarette rolling

Hat making

Mattress and blanket making

Shoe making

Wood carving

Knife making

Gem cutting and polishing

Making of gold, silver and other metallic ornaments

Pottery or ceramics

Thai musical instrument making

Thai traditional doll making

Bricklaying, carpentering and other forms of construction

Alms bowl making

Mat weaving and making of wares from national plant fibers

Stone inlay wares making

Manual labor

There is some new law about passing on expert knowledge to 2 Thai national, it was posted on here about a month ago.

The best I can do, hope it helps

[nephron]

So it doesn't look as if it's specifically prohibited, which is good. Now I just need to know if my qualifications count, if nursing is a qualified career in Thailand and what the pay is like.

Thanks!

[lukamar]

I ask my wife and she said that she did not know.. LOL

She was at Chiang Mai University hospital and she said there were no Farang nurses there, but it was a government hospital. They did have some nurses come over from the UK to observe what they were doing in the area of After heart surgery ICU care. To give you an idea of wages she was makeing 10-12000Bt a month after 5 years in the CVT ICI working for the government. Her thought was that you should look in a privat hospital where your English would possibly be of as much value as your RN. All nurses in Thailand speak some English as it is mandatory for their degree.

The Thai Nurses association has a website but i think it is in Thai only and i can't find the URL.. If I find it I'll post it for you.

[lukamar]

Here are a couple of links for you...

http://www.moph.go.th/ngo/nursec/index.htm

http://eng.moph.go.th/ContentDetails.php?i...24&strOrgID=001

If you have any specific questions PM me and I'll get my wife to reply..

[dr_Pat_Pong]

So it doesn't look as if it's specifically prohibited, which is good.    Now I just need to know if my qualifications count, if nursing is a qualified career in Thailand and what the pay is like. 

Thanks!

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You have some chance at non government hospitals ( and there are many ) to work in government hospitals you would need to have good Thai language capabilities.

[et33.com]

seek out the private homes / hospitals and clincs etc... etc... etc...

especially those that have lots of farang clients

i think better pay and easier entry ?

start looking...

and good luck

[dr_Pat_Pong]

seek out the private homes / hospitals and clincs etc... etc... etc...

especially those that have lots of farang clients

i think better pay and easier entry ?

start looking...

and good luck

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You'll be OK now. Even et33 agrees

[donna]

There are a couple of farang nursing staff at Bumrungrad apparently. You can also pick up some outside private work for companies sending people over on plastic surgery tours.

One company I know of has a guy working for them and pays him about 15K a month just to do outside work.

Not bad if you can get it. Bumrungrad, BNH and Samitivej have websites you can check on also.

Good Luck.

[nephron]

You have some chance at non government hospitals ( and there are many ) to work in government hospitals you would need to have good Thai language capabilities.

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I'm hoping to be fairly fluent in Thai by the time I move, I don't want to be living in a country if I don't have a reasonable grasp of the language. And I'm pretty good at languages (except Japanese, and I think I learnt more Thai in the two weeks I was there than I did Japanese in my 10 years of study...)

Oh, I forgot to say (so editing this post to add) I'm hoping to go to rural Thailand for 6 weeks either next year or the year after for uni- there's an option where instead of going to the Australian countryside you can go to the Thai countryside (doing community health care stuff). Which would be exceptionally cool, give me more chance to learn more Thai and get involved in the culture and the people. And have a chance to further investigate Thai health care.

Edited December 22, 2004 by nephron

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I am shortly going to finish my 3 year (Australian) nursing degree, making me a registered nurse.  For "personal reasons" (gotta love that phrase) I may be moving to Thailand.  Assuming I learn to speak reasonably good Thai, would it be possible for me to get a job as a nurse in Thailand?

What is the pay like?  Is it possible to live on?

(I'm going to ask the relationship question part of this in the relevant section)

Thanks!

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What State are you in ?

[nephron]

What State are you in ?

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Western Australia. So not far

To clarify for any WA or ex-WAians here, I have previously lived on $120 a week (when youth study payment was $140/wk) so I'm reasonably good at surviving on relatively little

[dr_Pat_Pong]

What State are you in ?

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Western Australia. So not far

To clarify for any WA or ex-WAians here, I have previously lived on $120 a week (when youth study payment was $140/wk) so I'm reasonably good at surviving on relatively little

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There are good Thai language courses in the ACT and Q uni's ( ANU and Griffith ) but I don't know about WA offerings.

[nephron]

What State are you in ?

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Western Australia. So not far

To clarify for any WA or ex-WAians here, I have previously lived on $120 a week (when youth study payment was $140/wk) so I'm reasonably good at surviving on relatively little

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There are good Thai language courses in the ACT and Q uni's ( ANU and Griffith ) but I don't know about WA offerings.

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I don't know but I'm at Curtin at the moment, and I can't study any extra units for the degree I'm doing. TAFE might have a decent language course, though.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

What State are you in ?

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Western Australia. So not far

To clarify for any WA or ex-WAians here, I have previously lived on $120 a week (when youth study payment was $140/wk) so I'm reasonably good at surviving on relatively little

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There are good Thai language courses in the ACT and Q uni's ( ANU and Griffith ) but I don't know about WA offerings.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know but I'm at Curtin at the moment, and I can't study any extra units for the degree I'm doing. TAFE might have a decent language course, though.

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Sorry ... I doubt it

[nephron]

I don't know but I'm at Curtin at the moment, and I can't study any extra units for the degree I'm doing. TAFE might have a decent language course, though.

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Sorry ... I doubt it

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AFAIK, the TAFE language courses here are generally better than the uni equivalents.