Basic pay would then range from less than $2000 to about $2,200,
depending on your seniority before you graduated with the Advanced
Dip.
You don't have to complete the bond before being sent for the
Advanced Dip. If the ward sister likes you, you can find yourself
being sent after your first year.
I was offered that option but I didn't want to sign on an extra
three years' bond. Now, I hear that there are hospitals like KKH
and NUH who are only bonding their nurses for two years if they go
for the Advanced Dip.
They are very very keen to offer nurses the Advanced Dip option now
because so many of us quit after our bond is over that they're
desperate to 'hold on' to us for as long as possible. And a bond is
the best way of doing so. 
