Will also be established at the new campus of the University of The South
Pacitic in Honiara, Solomon Islands and would then become the recommended
The appropriate site of training needs additional

site for such training.

evaluation along with a more extensive survey of dental manpower needs.
Nursing

1.

Nursing assistants
Nurse

aids

assist

the practical

nurses

and graduate nurses

in

routine care of hospital in-patients as well] as with traffic flow and
routine duties in the out-patient department.

They can assist with bed

making, bathing of patients, collection of and transport of laboratory

specimens and similar duties that do not require the skill of graduate
nurses.

They are supervised by the graduate nurses in charge of the

ward or clinic during that shift.
Their training is on the job training given by the instructors of
the nursing school or more frequently by the administrative nurse in
charge of nursing service at the hospital.
2.

Practical Nurses
Practical nurses are able to perform the more complicated routine

nursing procedures and work

in specialized clinics or special

care

hospital wards.
They are supervised by the graduate nurse in charge of the ward or
clinic or the administrative nursing personnel of the hospital.
Their

training

practical nurses.
courses

of

negotiated

the

is

in

a six month

formal

training

course

for

This training can be obtained through the extension
College

through

Mr.

of

Micronesia

Alfred

which

Capella,

at

present

the

extension

would

be

service

coordinator, located in Majuro.
3.

Graduate nurses
Graduate nurses serve in two capacities, either as supervisory

personnel or as staff nurses.
from practical

nurses.

The term staff nurse distinguishes them

Graduate nurses work in the outpatient and

emergency sections to screen patients, take vital signs, assist during
examinations,

change dressings,

give injections,

prepare wounds for

minor surgery, incise and drain abscesses, suture small

lacerations,

prepare admitting papers for patients to be admitted and make home
visits.

Inpatient

nursing

1

consists

of

standard

hospital

nursing

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