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Working collaboratively with Pacific Nations

Working collaboratively with Pacific Nations. Jo Conaglen AUT New Zealand Mary MacManus AUT New Zealand Michael Larui MOHMS Solomon Island Verzilyn Isom SICHE Solomon Islands. Working with consultants O ur experience. Solomon Island nursing issues that required a consultant

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Working collaboratively with Pacific Nations

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  1. Working collaboratively with Pacific Nations Jo Conaglen AUT New Zealand Mary MacManus AUT New Zealand Michael Larui MOHMS Solomon Island VerzilynIsom SICHE Solomon Islands

  2. Working with consultantsOur experience • Solomon Island nursing issues that required a consultant • Nursing training program • Nursing staff development • What we learned in the process • Working together • Shared Goal: to improve the standard of SI nursing • Confidence to do what we knew we had to do

  3. Phase one:Involvement • Coming together • Shared goal: improve the standard of SI nursing • Trust developed

  4. Relationship is fundamental • Talk-talk • Issues become clear • Direction begins to emerge • Our expertise was valued • Confidence to work with the emerging bigger picture

  5. Phase 2:Collaboration Clear vision: All nurse leaders and nurses in senior positions will have a post graduate qualification

  6. Phase 3:Empowerment • Competency confirmed • Sustainable plan • Country ownership • It’s good/ it’s right/ its ours • In-country skills and expertise to keep it going • Commitment to keep developing

  7. A long held belief that won’t be questioned even if it gets in the way of progress. Consultant brings: New perspective begins conversations that critiques long held beliefs Be a new voice Able to see beyond the here and now

  8. Collaboration • Repeated visits • Review, & revise • Skill preparation for next phase • Keep up momentum • Strengths focused • Relationship • Within and between

  9. Working in a Foreign Culture • Recognising the blindness of our own cultural views • Ensuring that understanding of situations is correct • Partnership essential for solutions that are culturally appropriate

  10. Shared Vision No Shared Vision Meaningful Communication Mutual Respect Assist not run Perception Gap Advise not control

  11. Conclusions • Relationship: from araikwao to wantok • Collaboration –partnership based on respect for each others strengths • Empowered to act and keep on developing

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