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