Overarching Focus

Increase the effectiveness of health systems

Improve the health of individuals, families and

communities

Strengthen nursing capacity to achieve this

goal

Capacity Building within Educational Sector

RegionalJurisdictional

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

Pull hard so that we may overcome the wind

La fa’atutu mai foe ina ia faiaina le savili (Samoan)