/
Marshall Islands.
At the present time the nurses receive their first
year of craining in basic science at the Colleye of Micronesia in Ponape
with the following two years
Nursing in Saipan.
of clinical
training at the School of
Consideration should be given to providing financial
support for the voted move of the School of Nursing to Majuro - pending
the acquisition of land.
Until such developments take place the nurses
can be trained at Ponape/Saipan or an alternative site would be the
School of Nursing of the University of the South Pacific located at
Suva, Fiji.
Entry requirements there are to complete Form 5 and pass
college entry examinations in three subjects.
Since approximately 2000
students apply each year with approximately 80 acceptances, by practice
most students accepted are Form 6 graduates.
Two additional alternate
sites are those of the training school in Papua, New Guinea and the new
school being established in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
4.
Bachelor Degree Level Nurse (R.N.)
At the present time there are few if any bachelor degree level
nurses in the Marshall
great
need for
personnel.
selected
such
at
Islands.
It does not appear that there is a
the present time except for the expatriate
As time goes on some of the graduate nurses could be
for
advanced
anesthesia, midwifery,
training
public
in
specialized
health,
pediatric
areas
and
such
as
nurse
neonatal
care,
surgical. critical care, etc.
5.
Advanced Nursing Personnel
Selected outstanding candidates can be chosen for advanced nursing
training which may or may not
lead
to
the Bachelor
degree
level.
Administrative nurses could be trained at a number of sites and would
probably achieve a bachelor's or even master's degree.
apply for those in nursing education.
The same would
There are advanced programs for
graduate nurses in the specialty areas of public health and midwifery at
the School of Nursing in Suva, Fiji.
The year of public health training
provides six months of emphasis on primary care in addition to public
health training, as the public health nurses often provide the primary
care in remote areas that are not served by a medical assistant or
medical officer.
Every graduate nurse completing training in Fiji must
also serve a one year supervised internship with four months of public
health, four months of hospital nursing and four months of obstetrical
nursing.
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