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. 13 qf obstetrical