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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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