nephron Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyadam Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nephron Posted December 20, 2004 Author Share Posted December 20, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukamar Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukamar Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 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! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
et33.com Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You'll be OK now. Even et33 agrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nephron Posted December 22, 2004 Author Share Posted December 22, 2004 (edited) 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 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! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What State are you in ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nephron Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 What State are you in ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 What State are you in ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nephron Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 What State are you in ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 What State are you in ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry ... I doubt it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nephron Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry ... I doubt it <{POST_SNAPBACK}> AFAIK, the TAFE language courses here are generally better than the uni equivalents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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