/ 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. 13