vw 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 12