Begin at NZ Skills Connect by guiding overseas nurses into New Zealand’s healthcare world. Little pieces add up – each one shapes trust inside an unfamiliar setup. Readiness shows in how advice fits personal skills, not just rules. Progress takes its own shape per person; still, common aims stay fixed. Help arrives without noise, steady through each phase of change.

Felix Rexy began her career elbow-deep in hospital work throughout New Zealand, clocking well over ten years beside patients. Right after those long days on duty, she moved into classrooms – helping shape paths for people aiming to join healthcare. Each position flowed into the next; before long, she was leading overseas nurses through the Competency Assessment Program while running sessions for fresh trainees. Along the way, patterns showed up: many arriving from abroad stumbled when guidance didn’t match what this place actually expected. Out of confusion came clarity – mix-ups over office routines, team updates, odd details like file styles. Tests tripped people up, not from poor ability yet strange setups they’d never seen. Each repeated moment added weight, slowly pulling her toward a purpose. Global workers finding their footing – that became the quiet engine behind every project that followed.

When the Nursing Council replaced CAP with OSCE as the key path to registration, one thing stood out – prep didn’t line up with the new challenge. That change pushed her to team up with people noticing the same mismatch. From those talks grew NZ Skills Connect, designed to do more than drill exam techniques, aiming instead to rethink how internationally trained nurses settle in, build knowledge, and take on real healthcare work nationwide.