College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences [CMNHS] College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences [CMNHS] School of Medicine School of Nursing

CMNHS Vision & Mission Vision: ‘to be the leading health workforce academic education and research Institution in the Pacific region.’ Mission: ‘work collaboratively to provide quality education programmes and to conduct innovative research in order to graduate compassionate and competent health professionals to improve the health of people in the Pacific region.’

Nursing and Midwifery can and have a significant and positive impact on the MDG’s Nurses are likely to be a key in the frontline of our efforts to have an impact on NCD’s such as diabetes and CAD. Nurses are critical in our efforts to document and intervene in public health problems Nurses have the greatest potential to improve the outcomes for maternal and infant health.

Diploma in Nursing – 3 years (phased out 2014) Bachelor in Nursing – 3 years Bachelor in Public Health Nursing – 1 year Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing – 7 months Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery – 1 year Postgraduate Diploma Leadership & Management in Nursing – 1 year Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Practice (NP) – 1 year

1. Bachelor in Public Health Nursing [BPHN] Program  Duration - 1 year full-time, 2 – 3 years part-time  6 courses/units – designed to meet needs of PICs that were consulted  Pre-requisite – certificate, diploma in nsg., AS degree  For Fiji and the Pacific region

BPHN Palau Program Courses/Units 1.Pacific Public Health 2.Maternal Health (clinical course) 3.Health Information System for Health Managers 4.Leadership & Public Health Policy 5.Child Health (clinical course) 6.Research in Public Health Nursing

2. Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Practice (NP)  13 months intensive, on-campus, advanced level of nurse training  Pre-requisite – certificate, diploma [+ midwifery certificate]

Role of NP in Fiji  Designed to make comprehensive health services accessible, affordable and acceptable to all members of society  Nursing personnel constitute largest component of professional health workers and often provide cost-effective health services to outlying communities  GoF insisted for advanced education and deployment of a cadre of NPs

Conceptual Framework  Based on Yanuca Declaration of Health Islands using New Horizons for Health  NPs offers a practical solution to increase accessibility to quality primary care in communities  NPs have proven cost-effective both i terms of cost of training and salaries  Further savings realised as early intervention and prevention keeps patients out of hospital

Practice Setting for NPs  Rural health centres  However, settings have changed in response to dynamic nature of health care and service needs

I – Advanced health assessment II - Advanced Clinical Decision-Making in Primary Health Care -Reproductive Health -Paediatrics in Primary Care -Advanced Community Health Nursing III – Clinical Preceptorship NP PROGRAM OUTCOMES.doc Program Phases

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