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Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries

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 oppor...

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Autores principales: Colquhoun, Samantha, Ogaoga, Divi, Tamou, Mathias, Nasi, Titus, Subhi, Rami, Duke, Trevor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-10-45
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author Colquhoun, Samantha
Ogaoga, Divi
Tamou, Mathias
Nasi, Titus
Subhi, Rami
Duke, Trevor
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Ogaoga, Divi
Tamou, Mathias
Nasi, Titus
Subhi, Rami
Duke, Trevor
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description 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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spelling pubmed-35458332013-01-17 Child health nurses in the Solomon Islands: lessons for the Pacific and other developing countries Colquhoun, Samantha Ogaoga, Divi Tamou, Mathias Nasi, Titus Subhi, Rami Duke, Trevor Hum Resour Health Research 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. BioMed Central 2012-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3545833/ /pubmed/23171144 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-10-45 Text en Copyright ©2012 Colquhoun et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tamou, Mathias
Nasi, Titus
Subhi, Rami
Duke, Trevor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-10-45
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