College of Medicine, Nursing College of Medicine, Nursing

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

CMNHS CMNHS Vision & MissionVision & 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. 1. Bachelor in Public Health Nursing [BPHN] Bachelor in Public Health Nursing [BPHN] ProgramProgram

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 BPHN Palau Program Courses/UnitsCourses/Units

1. Pacific Public Health2. 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 assessmentII - 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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