oe
services including the administering of medications and cafrying out of
doctors orders, provision ci bedside care, assistance to fncapacitated
patients, monitoring of critical patients, reporting of Isymptoms and
“
.
reactions of medications to physicians, monitoring of surgical patients
after surgery, assistance at childbirth and delivery of infbnts, care of
the newborn and care of mental patients.
These services are organized around the wards: medical, surgical,
obstetrical, pediatric and menta].
Graduate nurses are regponsible for
administrative paperwork including maintenance of patien
processing admission and discharge of patients.
interpreting
treatment
regimes
to
the
charts and
They albo assist in
patient
and
providing health education to patients and families.
family
They
and
in
are also in
charge of the supervision of practical nurses and nurse afdes.
The supervision of graduate nurses is under the diraction of the
administrative director of nurses who will then designatB
a graduate
nurse to be in charge of the ward or clinic for each shift|to supervise
ali 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.
Thé
Entry requiraments are to
The first year of nurse traini
Micronesia
in
microbiology and anatomy.
Ponape “where
they
take
The students then transfer to
Nursing of the College of Micronesia which is located if
their second and third years of clinical nursing.
curriculum
with
incorporated with
specific
behavior
most common
objectives
is at the
physiology,
fhe School of
Saipan for
A well developed
is
the LEGS system (Learning Experienc@
Tiowed
and
Guides for
Nursing Students by Anne K. Roe/Mary C. Sherwood, publiBhed by John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
A copy of the curriculum was obtaimed and is on
file at Loma Linda University.
The nursing school is conndcted with an
approximate 100 bed hospital.
There is a good library wi fh textbooks,
several nursing journals, and many self-help audiovisual
Jnstructional
guides.
At the October 5-8, 1980 meeting of the Board of Rdagents 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 persqnnel for the