Australian Nurse Wanting to Relocate to Hanoi

colinoscapee wrote:

The only work you will get is teaching English. I would advise you to do some research on a Celta or Tesol course and go from there.

Again, I don't know about AU but in the US an LPN does not hold a Baccalaureate degree.  I know there are differing opinions about teaching without degrees but with a few exceptions you do need on for a work permit.

THIGV wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

The only work you will get is teaching English. I would advise you to do some research on a Celta or Tesol course and go from there.

Again, I don't know about AU but in the US an LPN does not hold a Baccalaureate degree.  I know there are differing opinions about teaching without degrees but with a few exceptions you do need on for a work permit.

Thats correct, but as we all know,the way things work here is not by the law.

colinoscapee wrote:

Thats correct, but as we all know,the way things work here is not by the law.

Anyone who has lived in VN for over a week should know that.  I am still conflicted about advising people to do something that is basically illegal. 

In the US there is an old joke about the hillbilly who fills out an application and answers two standard questions.  Question one: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" Answer: "No";  Question two:  "Why"  Answer: "Never got caught."  Of course you can get away with it but is it right?

@Alex1104

Hello! I'm not sure if this will even reach you considering the age of the original post but I'm also an Lpn in America looking to move to Vietnam and find work. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!!

Regina B

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@Alex1104 Hello! I'm not sure if this will even reach you considering the age of the original post but I'm also an Lpn in America looking to move to Vietnam and find work. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!!Regina Bxxxxxccc c  .mail address 😊 - @Regina B

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@Alex1104 Hello! I'm not sure if this will even reach you considering the age of the original post but I'm also an Lpn in America looking to move to Vietnam and find work. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!!Regina B***😊 - @Regina Baltimore

Absolutely impossible Regina.

IF you were an RN with a unique specialty AND you were absolutely fluent in Tiếng Việt (the Vietnamese language) then there is a very very small chance that you might possibly be able to be hired somewhere, but it's just not happening here.

Vietnam has all of the native born nurses that it needs with nursing schools around the country continually graduating new nurses as old ones retire.

The government has to approve all hiring of any foreigners here, for any job.

The only way a foreigner can come here and find a job is if they qualify for an expert position that can't be filled as of yet by Vietnamese citizens.

I myself am a retired registered nurse from California. I looked into the hiring situation when I first came back here in 2018. I was 100% shut down and I know for a fact that a foreign LPN/LVN would never be hired here in Vietnam.

@Regina Baltimore

hello, it's s is possible, but think about the following regulations and make your own conclusions : You are a profesional, checked. Any company could sponsor you to get a working visa and working permit, they might justify why they need you over any other local nurse, maybe because the language and your speciality. However, before that, you need to convalidate your Degree in Nursing and  get the Vietnamese medical license (Giấy phép hành nghề) that expires every 5 years..... and yes, in those 5 years you must learn the Vietnamese language or the licence will not be renewed.

To get the license you need to complete 9 months of practices in a national hospital, meanwhile you need to get a previous Visa for Students.

The above is what the new law for healthcare professionals says (year 2024).... Maybe the incertitude to get the approval for a work permit is worthless to have all those bothers, unless your husband is Vietnamese.

Good luck

@Regina Baltimore
hello, it's s is possible, but think about the following regulations and make your own conclusions : You are a profesional, checked. Any company could sponsor you to get a working visa and working permit, they might justify why they need you over any other local nurse, maybe because the language and your speciality. However, before that, you need to convalidate your Degree in Nursing and get the Vietnamese medical license (Giấy phép hành nghề) that expires every 5 years..... and yes, in those 5 years you must learn the Vietnamese language or the licence will not be renewed.
To get the license you need to complete 9 months of practices in a national hospital, meanwhile you need to get a previous Visa for Students.
The above is what the new law for healthcare professionals says (year 2024).... Maybe the incertitude to get the approval for a work permit is worthless to have all those bothers, unless your husband is Vietnamese.
Good luck - @ajairon

And there you go again, wasting space with another one of your ignorant opinions.

IN FACT, a licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse (LPN/LVN) is NOT a "professional" nurse in the USA or in Vietnam.

That's why the title is VOCATIONAL nurse.

Some LVNs graduate from a vocational school of only one year.

It's not anything closely related to a baccalaureate (4-Year) degree, and vocational nurses do not receive any sort of specialty certification.

Vietnam is already saturated with nursing aides and vocational nurses. There is absolutely no way that the government will approve a work permit for a foreign vocational nurse.

To reiterate, I'm speaking from personal experience, since I was a licensed vocational nurse from 1973 to 1985 and then a professional registered nurse licensed in California from 1985 until 2005.

One of the first things I did when I arrived here in 2018 was to check out the possibility of possibly doing some work as a nurse.

There's no way a person can get hired as a vocational nurse and almost always no chance of being hired as a registered nurse if they do not speak Vietnamese fluently.

There's not an employer in this country that would hire a vocational nurse and wait 5 years for them to learn the language.

You really need to stop jumping in on these threads where you are ignorant of the facts, just because you like to contradict good information that I give.

Not because I personally care if you contradict me, but when you do so you give people false hope. You give people reason to say maybe it will work and then they come here and find out that the initial information they got was correct.

Please stop giving people incorrect information

@OceanBeach92107

And here you are again. The requester surely already has evaluated how hard is the market of LPN's around the world... Obviously she also knows the significance of a license instead to practice the same under Informality.

I have shared what the regulations state regarding practicing healthcare in Vietnam as midwives, nurses , medical technician, neurologists, etc.. Then the requester or any other reader can conclude whether it fixes or not to whatever is the level-degree (baccalaureate or vocational) or terminology used in any country.

I was very clear:  Do you want to be a nurse in Vietnam? First you need to get the license " Giấy phép hành nghề"; and then justify what skills you have over any other local nurses... unless your spouse is Vietnamese.

To clarify about the Vietnamese language requisite: the applicant (in this case for medical services) can get the license today and practice wherever the patients speak the same language (interpreters are permitted in case of casual patients only-vietnamese speakers), and reach fluency in Vietnamese before 1 january 2032.

To clarify about ".... unless your husband is Vietnamese": it means to be exempted of work-permit and the foreigner can work as a rocket-scientist or as waitress in a restaurant, or to install monsters in gardens to get internet from Starlink

So, it is hard, but possible; less hard if your spouse is Vietnamese. THE ONLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR FOREIGNERS: There's no way to get hired in Military dependencies.