Marshall] Islands.
At the present time the nurses receife their first
year of training in basic science at the Colleye of Micron@sia in Ponape
with the following two years of clinical
Nursing in Saipan.
training at
Fhe School of
Consideration should be given to provifing financial
support for the voted move of the School of Nursing to Mafuro - pending
the acquisition of land.
Until such developments take place the nurses
can be trained at Ponape/Saipan or an alternative sitef would be the
School of Nursing of the University of the South Pacific located at
Suva, Fiji.
Entry requirements there are to complete Fdrm 5 and pass
college entry examinations in three subjects.
Since apprd@ximately 2000
students apply each year with approximately 80 acceptance, by practice
most students accepted are Form 6 graduates.
Two additiqnal alternate
sites are those of the training school in Papua, New Guin@a 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 jin the Marshall Islands.
great need for such
personnel.
selected for
It does not appear that there is a
at the present time except for the expatriate
As time goes on some of the graduate numses could be
advanced
anesthesia, midwifery,
training
public
in
specialized
health,
pediatric
areas
and
quch
as
nurse
nponatal
care,
surgical. critical care, etc.
5.
Advanced Nursing Personnel
Selected outstanding candidates can be chosen for adfanced nursing
training which may or may not lead
to
the Bachelor
flegree
level.
Administrative nurses could be trained at a number of sftes and would
probably achieve a bachelor’s or even master's degree.
apply for those in nursing education.
he 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 hgalth training
provides six months of emphasis on primary care in additjion 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
nursing.
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