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
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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

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