{"id":7147,"date":"2023-08-11T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:54:18","slug":"local-nurses-trained-according-to-fiji-standards-doctor-fong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Local nurses trained according to Fiji standards: Doctor Fong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Doctor James Fong says he is not surprised that local nurses recruited to work in a hospital in American Samoa did not pass the National Council Licensing Examination in order to be certified as registered nurses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary made the comments in light of an article that states that the American Samoa House Health Committee met and discussed the status of two out of the 21 nurses from Fiji who passed the NCLEX, or National Council Licensing Examination, to be certified as registered nurses.<\/p>\n<p>It says three others who sat the exam at the end of last month did not pass and will make a second attempt in September, while the other 16 are still in the preparation phase and should be taking the exam at the end of September or early October.<\/p>\n<p>FBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Doctor James Fong says he is not surprised that local nurses recruited to work in a hospital in American Samoa did not pass the National Council Licensing Examination in order to be certified as registered nurses. &nbsp; The Permanent Secretary made the comments in light of an article that states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}