Congrats. I also submitted mine in November. Waiting for a response.
Did you end up having to take any courses? I am also an RN from the US. I am waiting for my recognition and am also nervous about having to do extras.
Hi, yes I have a BSN and 12 years of experience. I have a B2 German certificate. The requirement appears to vary by hospital here in Zürich.
Thank you!
Nana
Myself and my wife live and work in US and preparing to move to CH for multiple years. My wife is a registered Nurse in US and applied for Swiss Red Cross diploma recognition in 2018 and got the diploma recognized by SRK.
Only problem is that they gave the recognition as (ES instead of HES)
d’infirmiére dipl6mée ES / infirmier dipl6mé ES
Infirmiére Niveau Ecole Supérieure, degré tertiaire (ISCED 6)
From my limited research I found out that someone with a university degree should be given HES recognition instead of ES which is for High school level diploma.
Has anyone been in this situation? How can we get the recognition changed to HES? Is there additional course or criteria that we have to go through to get higher recognition? French part does not hire anyone below HES so we are out of luck in finding jobs there.
Thanks for taking the time to read and response.. much appreciated!
Maybe contact potential employers in the French part, and ask them for suggestions on how to "move up" to HES? There are bound to be some jobs at the "lower" level, otherwise how would anyone get experience?
ES is for anything below a bachelors in nursing degree
HES is for bachelors in Nursing
ISCED 6 is for Bachelors in Nursing
No wonder we keep getting rejected since they don't hire ES in French part and want HES. If anyone has a similar experience please let us know how to get to HES level from ES?
Is the applicant fluent in French? If not, that's the area I'd recommend putting in energy, as a very good command of the language (speaking, comprehension of speech, reading, writing) will be an important factor, over and above the formal recognition of qualifications, in an employer's choice of one candidate over another.
And also: what 3Wishes said.
I know a number of foreigen nurses who started working in Switzerland at a distinctly lower rank than their qualification. They then proved themselves by improving their language skills, learning the local Swiss specialised vocabulary, and by getting their head around the cultural shift. They could thereafter write their Swiss experience on their c.v., and then they moved to a new employer who was willing to offer them support while they wrote some more exams to upgrade the level of their registration.
I am new here on this site. I am a third-country national seeking employment in Switzerland. I only have a background in bedside nursing for 1 year and the rest I worked in a corporate company. I would like to ask for your suggestions on how I can work and live in Switzerland from Germany?
I would really appreciate your response. Thank you.
This thread is very long, but I think you will find quite a bit on information about the procedures.
If you have only experience but no nursing qualifications, it will not be easy to get approval to work in Switzerland. A qualification and a good command of a Swiss language (minimum B2, although it would be better to have a higher lever, so as to participate fully in all aspects of the job) will tip the balance positively.
For those who do have a qualification: some employers hire nurses with foreign qualifications at a lower level than their academic level, and their skills and experience. This, especially so, if the person's language skills are not strong.
The good employers then help the employee to go through the registration process, possibly by offering them some extra, add-on modules to help them become accustomend to the Swiss vocabulary and way of doing things, or by allocating someone to help them with their paperwork, or by certifying that they are properly employed, etc.
The bad employers know that they have a better qualified person for the salary of a lower qualified person, and do nothing to help. But even that gives the nurse time to improve her language skills and Swiss-employability, while looking around for a better job. I know several who took this route, and kept working towards a better and better recognition, including by changing employers.
I'm a nurse in germany with one year experience (after 3 years Ausbildung).
I speak English (I have a BA degree), French (C1/C2 and mastering the medical terms as well), german and Arabic. I'am willing to move to switzerland. I would be eternally grateful if you can guys help me 😊 i wanna knw if the salaries in switzerland or higher than germany (my salary is 2300€), and an idea about the life expenses.. do i need some sort of "Anerkennung" or i just look for the job?.. thank you so much in advance guys ❤️
I am a graduate nurse from Australia and have more than 9 years of experience in aged care, patient care assistant at the hospital and Palliative care nursing in remote health. I have read that i need my degree send to Red Cross for recognition. Does anyone know roughly how long this takes ? and what documents do they need exactly? transcripts, course catalogue etc? I have undertaken my B2 exam last week. Now just awaiting my results so i can start sending my documents to Red Cross. I am also very keen to work in canton, Zürich and Saint Gallen, however I don't know where to apply. Are there any nursing job agencies for nursing assistant, support workers i can go to in the meantime to apply for causal work while awaiting my results...? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Rosy.