Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>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 ide...
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| author | Colquhoun Samantha Ogaoga Divi Tamou Mathias Nasi Titus Subhi Rami Duke Trevor |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Design</p> <p>Semi-structured interviews.</p> <p>Settings</p> <p>Tertiary hospital, district hospitals and health clinics in the Solomon Islands.</p> <p>Participants</p> <p>Twenty-one paediatric nurses were interviewed out of a total of 27 in the country.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>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.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0b19330393045c1bb64e34b916230872022-12-22T03:24:53ZengBMCHuman Resources for Health1478-44912012-11-011014510.1186/1478-4491-10-45Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countriesColquhoun SamanthaOgaoga DiviTamou MathiasNasi TitusSubhi RamiDuke Trevor<p>Abstract</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Design</p> <p>Semi-structured interviews.</p> <p>Settings</p> <p>Tertiary hospital, district hospitals and health clinics in the Solomon Islands.</p> <p>Participants</p> <p>Twenty-one paediatric nurses were interviewed out of a total of 27 in the country.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>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.</p>http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/10/1/45Solomon IslandsChild healthNursesDeveloping countriesPacific Islands |
| spellingShingle | Colquhoun Samantha Ogaoga Divi Tamou Mathias Nasi Titus Subhi Rami Duke Trevor Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries Human Resources for Health Solomon Islands Child health Nurses Developing countries Pacific Islands |
| title | Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries |
| title_full | Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries |
| title_fullStr | Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries |
| title_short | Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries |
| title_sort | child health nurses in the solomon islands lessons for the pacific and other developing countries |
| topic | Solomon Islands Child health Nurses Developing countries Pacific Islands |
| url | http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/10/1/45 |
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