Will also be established at the new campus of the University of The South
Pacitic in Honiara, Solomon Islands and would then become the recommended
The appropriate site of training needs additional
site for such training.
evaluation along with a more extensive survey of dental manpower needs.
Nursing
1.
Nursing assistants
Nurse
aids
assist
the practical
nurses
and graduate nurses
in
routine care of hospital in-patients as well] as with traffic flow and
routine duties in the out-patient department.
They can assist with bed
making, bathing of patients, collection of and transport of laboratory
specimens and similar duties that do not require the skill of graduate
nurses.
They are supervised by the graduate nurses in charge of the
ward or clinic during that shift.
Their training is on the job training given by the instructors of
the nursing school or more frequently by the administrative nurse in
charge of nursing service at the hospital.
2.
Practical Nurses
Practical nurses are able to perform the more complicated routine
nursing procedures and work
in specialized clinics or special
care
hospital wards.
They are supervised by the graduate nurse in charge of the ward or
clinic or the administrative nursing personnel of the hospital.
Their
training
practical nurses.
courses
of
negotiated
the
is
in
a six month
formal
training
course
for
This training can be obtained through the extension
College
through
Mr.
of
Micronesia
Alfred
which
Capella,
at
present
the
extension
would
be
service
coordinator, located in Majuro.
3.
Graduate nurses
Graduate nurses serve in two capacities, either as supervisory
personnel or as staff nurses.
from practical
nurses.
The term staff nurse distinguishes them
Graduate nurses work in the outpatient and
emergency sections to screen patients, take vital signs, assist during
examinations,
change dressings,
give injections,
prepare wounds for
minor surgery, incise and drain abscesses, suture small
lacerations,
prepare admitting papers for patients to be admitted and make home
visits.
Inpatient
nursing
1
consists
of
standard
hospital
nursing