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services including the administering of medications and carrying out of
doctors orders, provision ci bedside care, assistance to incapacitated
patients, monitoring of critical patients, reporting of symptoms and
reactions of medications to physicians, monitoring of surgical patients
after surgery, assistance at childbirth and delivery of infants, care of
the newborn and care of mental patients.
These services are organized around the wards: medical, surgical,
obstetrical, pediatric and mental.
Graduate nurses are responsible for
administrative paperwork including maintenance of patients charts and
processing admission and discharge of patients.
They also assist in
interpreting
and
treatment
regimes
to
the
patient
providing health education to patients and families.
family
and
in
They are also in
charge of the supervision of practical nurses and nurse aides.
The supervision of graduate nurses is under the direction of the
administrative director of nurses who will then designate a graduate
nurse to be in charge of the ward or clinic for each shift to supervise
all nursing services for that particular shift.
At the present time
there is an expatriate director of nurses, on Majuro, with all of the
graduate nurses being Marshallese.
Graduate nurses can be trained at multiple sites.
site is that of the College of Micronesia.
complete
high
College
of
school.
The most common
Entry requirements are to
The first year of nurse training is at the
Micronesia
in
microbiology and anatomy.
Ponape “where
they
take
physiology,
The students then transfer to the School of
Nursing of the College of Micronesia which jis located in Saipan for
their second and third years of clinical nursing.
curriculum
incorporated
with
with
specific
the
behavior
LEGS
system
objectives
(Learning
A well developed
is
followed
Experience Guides
and
for
Nursing Students by Anne K. Roe/Mary C. Sherwood, published by John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
A copy of the curriculum was obtained and is on
file at Loma Linda University.
The nursing school is connected with an
approximate 100 bed hospital.
There is a good library with textbooks,
several nursing journals, and many self-help audiovisual instructional
guides.
At the October 5-8, 1980 meeting of the Board of Regents of the
College of Micronesia it was voted to move the School of Nursing to
Majuro pending the acquisition of land for a school site.
This should
be a distinct advantage for the training of nursing personnel for the
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