Licensure in Nicaragua

Submitted by barron on 24 July, 2006 - 11:20.

My wife and I are moving to Nicaragua. I'm an equine Vet with prior small animal work. She is a RN. Does anyone know where to start on getting licensed in Nicaragua in these fields. Also is there a need for our current occupations.

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Nursing & Animal Work

Submitted by DouglasPartello on 8 February, 2007 - 02:38.

I cannot tell you the department that handles licensure for animal care practitioners. But for nursing, MINSA, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health will have the answers about nursing licensure. Use the Managua white pages, and you will find them there. I do understand that veterinary medicine is a very needed, and persons of those skills are in high demand. The pay scale will be relative to the general economy, so don't look to "get rich quick". As for nursing, they are soon to require a nursing degree for those practical nurses in many hospitals and other clinical settings. The pay is also quite low, like $120-160/month. Remember a general practice doctor in Nicaragua makes about $US200-$US300/month. Good luck on your move. If your wife wants a short term volunteer experience in Nicaragua, contact me.

My Opinion

Submitted by Miskito Alan on 24 July, 2006 - 11:22.

If you can afford to work here with the wages that are paid; you will be very welcomed by everyone.

Miskito Alan &#174

As Alan said,

Submitted by catahoula_fan on 24 July, 2006 - 21:01.

obviously the pay scale is really something to consider. My first thought is how good of a vet are ya?

If you're aces and you can provide excellent customer service (something that is sooo lacking here), you'll find clients willing to pay a bit more for your services.

I'm fixin' to buy a few horses myself and have been wondering who I can trust to care for them. It's been looking like I'd have to do most of the care myself (as I do with my dogs) as the quality of vet services I have experienced so far has been well below my standards.

Vet work

Submitted by barron on 24 July, 2006 - 21:46.

The ones that like me think I can walk on it, the ones that don't think I can't pour it out of boot, but since I stay busy without advertising may be the former are winning on the vote. I've put more catahoulas back togeather than I like to think about. In LA,AR&MS they work for a living, sometimes a rough one at that. I would like to slow down to less than 60 hours a week and the night emergencies. We would like to do some humanitarian work and need to stay legal, licensed if needed, in Nicaragua. Plus I can't give it totally up. We plan on bring our kids with us, blue healer(retired to healing me when she feels good), cavalier King Charles and english bulldog. Thanks for any help you can give. Hope to meet some of the expats on my Nov trip.