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ACTIVITIES
LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Two fellows from Tuvalu attended the Pacific Leadership Program in 2025, and are being mentored by their Acting Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer (CNMO), Ms. Sr Felolini Anitelea Lifuka. Through the program, their leadership skills were developed as they established the SPCNMOA Program country taskforce and identified key issues in Tuvalu that needed to be addressed.
In August, the PLP fellows organised a SPCNMOA Program in-country workshop with 14 hospital managers and senior staff from the Ministry of Health's Princess Margaret Hospital, with visits from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) representatives and professional associations, as well as the Deputy Secretary of Health and Acting Health.Workshop details are documented below in the brief.
Future works include supporting ongoing in-country works by Fellows and the taskforce, and the continued support of the establishment of the Health Professional Board.
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 were expanded upon during the SPCNMOA Program in-country workshop.
The SPCNMOA Program taskforce is responsible for prioritising and planning ongoing and future work to establish regional standards. Future works will include developing standards for competency, registration, and appraisal.
EDUCATION
Work is planned for Continuing Professional Development.
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