Overarching Focus
Increase the effectiveness of health systems
Improve the health of individuals, families and
communities
Strengthen nursing capacity to achieve this
goal
2007Nursing Program Directors met in Honolulu to address jurisdictional and regional nursing educational needs
Provide higher quality healthcare for complex health demands
Recognize commonalities and differencesCommunicate among nursing educators Collaborate across schools/jurisdictionsPrepare students for pipelineIncrease nursing competencies
PIN Partnership Grant
Funding received– Faculty development – Preceptor training involved expert
clinical nurses – Interaction between education and
practiceFormed Pacific Island Network of
Nursing Education Directors (PINNED)
Nursing Program Partners
Northern Marianas College
College of Micronesia – FSM
Palau Community College
College of the Marshall Islands
University of Guam
Guam Community College
American Samoa Community
College
Dijo im Ukoj (Marshallese)
Working together to accomplish
what would otherwise be impossible
Organizational Partners Friends of the College of the Marshall Islands Foundation* Bank of Guam American Pacific Nursing Leaders Council (APNLC) World Health Organization* Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA)* University of Hawaii-Manoa, School of Nursing & Dental
Hygiene US Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX* Kapiolani Community College Nursing Program Micronesian Area Health Education Center Tripler Army Medical Center Dreyfus Health Foundation* University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies Rider Consulting (associated with Alaskan PIN)*Includes funding partnership.
The PIN Voyage “jarakiarlap”
Global interest in what’s going on in the PacificMore interest generated Dreyfus Health Foundation onboard under 2nd
PIN grant Learning to work with external partners
Initial Goal and ObjectivesTo increase professional nursing capacity through faculty development
ObjectivesEnhance instructional skills of current facultyDevelop new faculty instructors who are competent in clinical and didactic teachersIncrease numbers of baccalaureate, masters and doctorally prepared nurses
Initial Outputs and Outcomes Instructional and preceptor skills enhanced
through annual teaching and learning institutesA model using expert clinical nurses to expand
faculty capacity developedEducational advancements of nursing faculty
• Master level (3 faculty)• PhD level (2 faculty)
New strategies for resource sharingNurses at the table and on the map of policy
makers
Improving TeachingSkills in
Saipan, 2009
Training on Innovative Clinical teaching model in Palau, 2010
Current PIN GrantAddress nursing workforce issues in Institute of
Medicine’s (IOM) report Build synergies among local, regional and
external partners Improve education and practice infrastructure
throughout the USAPIPrepare for a distance-based regional BSN
program in the USAPIDevelop regional strategic plan for nursing
education in the USAPI
Regional Plans
Jurisdiction planning
Regional level PIHOA
Nursing Education
Capacity building
Regional planning
Mutual aid
• Expand access to nursing education at the BSN level
• Increase number of advanced practice nurses to address primary health care needs
• Establish nursing input in health planning and decision-making
Overarching Goals