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ACTIVITIES
LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Two fellows from Kiribati attended the Pacific Leadership Program in 2025, and are being mentored by their Director of Nursing Services, Ms. Helen Murdoch. Through the program, their leadership skills were developed as they established the SHWP country taskforce and identified key issues in Kiribati that needed to be addressed.
In August, the PLP fellows organised a SPCNMOA Program in-country workshop highlighting regulation issues with 24 participants from the Kiribati Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS), and other key stakeholders from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), in-country WHO office, clinicians and educators. Workshop details are documented below in the brief.
Future works include continuing support of the taskforce and in-country work.
REGULATION
A regulation webinar series was held between November 2024-February 2025, during which Kiribati's regulatory status was established through the "traffic lights" approach after exploring regulatory frameworks. Following this, senior nurses and midwives also attended four additional webinars on Registration, Standards for Practice including codes of ethics and conduct, Accreditation, and Risk Management for public safety. Through the webinars, participants compiled baseline data, analysed data from the State of the World's Nursing Reports and Regional Quality Improvement Program (RQIP) reports, which were expanded upon during the SHWP in-country workshop.
SPCNMOA Regulation Webinar Series
The SPCNMOA Program taskforce is responsible for prioritising and planning ongoing and future work to establish regional standards. Future works will include researching and developing accreditation standards for education and nursing, as well as updating registration.
EDUCATION
Work is being done on Continuing Professional Development.
GEDSI
GEDSI baseline data has been gathered. Additionally, there is ongoing activity to raise awareness of GEDSI principles in the health workforce context.
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