Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries
| Autor: | Divi Ogaoga, Rami Subhi, Titus Nasi, Samantha M. Colquhoun, Mathias Tamou, Trevor Duke |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Public Administration media_common.quotation_subject education Developing country Nurses Pacific Islands Health administration Developing countries Business economics Nursing Solomon Islands Medicine Quality (business) Social policy media_common Child health lcsh:R5-920 business.industry Research Public health lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health services research lcsh:RA1-1270 Human resource management business lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Human Resources for Health, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 45 (2012) Human Resources for Health |
| ISSN: | 1478-4491 |
| Popis: | Objectives To understand the roles of nurses with advanced training in paediatrics in the Solomon Islands, and the importance of these roles to child health. To understand how adequately equipped child health nurses feel for these roles, to identify the training needs, difficulties and future opportunities. Design Semi-structured interviews. Settings Tertiary hospital, district hospitals and health clinics in the Solomon Islands. Participants Twenty-one paediatric nurses were interviewed out of a total of 27 in the country. Results All nurses were currently employed in teaching, clinical or management areas. At least one or two nurses were working in each of 7 of the 9 provinces; in the two smaller provinces there were none. Many nurses were sole practitioners in remote locations without back-up from doctors or other experienced nurses; all had additional administrative or public health duties. Different types of courses were identified: a residential diploma through the University of Papua New Guinea or New Zealand and a diploma by correspondence through the University of Sydney. Conclusions Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands fulfill vital clinical, public health, teaching and administrative roles. Currently they are too few in number, and this is a limiting factor for improving the quality of child health services in that country. Current methods of training require overseas travel, or are expensive, or lack relevance, or remove nurses from their work-places and families for prolonged periods of time. A local post-basic child health nursing course is urgently needed, and models exist to achieve this. |
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