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LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Two fellows from Palau attended the Pacific Leadership Program in 2025, and are being mentored by Ms Kimberly Idip, Nursing Manager, Hospital Nursing Services. Through the program, their leadership skills were developed as they identified key issues in Palau that needed to be addressed.
In August, the PLP fellows organised a SHWP in-country visit with the WHO CCNMH UTS team, which included consultations with various stakeholders and a gathering of background information and relationship building for future health system strengthening efforts, such as addressing severe nursing shortages. Visit details are documented below in the brief.
A future SHWP in-country workshop will be organised highlighting regulation and accreditation issues.
REGULATION
A regulation webinar series was held between November 2024-February 2025, during which Vanuatu'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 Reigstration, 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 will be expanded upon during the SHWP in-country workshop.
DOCUMENTS
1. Pacific Leadership Program 2025 brief