Remote mission hospital a learning experience for all students

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A hospital on Malaita in the Solomon Islands is giving nurses from two Seventh-day Adventist entities a clinical learning experience they cannot find elsewhere. Students—including Natasha Roscovich and Lisa Peek—from Avondale College of Higher Education’s Faculty of Nursing and Health have joined those from Atoifi Adventist Hospital’s School of Nursing on the wards for about six weeks over the past three years. A staffing challenge means the students, such as Nanise Rokotavaga who is helping deliver her first baby, are given more opportunities than in other hospitals. Atoifi cares for in and outpatients—it has 90 beds over five wards. The 60 students in the school make up about one-third of the country’s trainee nurses, reports lecturer Sonja Frischknecht. One of her students, Terence Nyamapfeni, practices his cannulation skills on a classmate. The students become teachers during the opening of Sabbath in the chapel.—Brenton Stacey, public relations officer, Avondale College of Higher Education