working collaboratively with pacific nations
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Working collaboratively
with Pacific Nations
Jo Conaglen AUT New ZealandMary MacManus AUT New ZealandMichael Larui MOHMS Solomon IslandVerzilyn Isom SICHE Solomon Islands
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
Phase one:Involvement
• Coming together
• Shared goal: improve the standard of SI nursing
• Trust developed
Relationship is fundamental
• Talk-talk– Issues become clear– Direction begins to emerge
• Our expertise was valued
• Confidence to work with the emerging bigger picture
Phase 2:Collaboration
Clear vision: All nurse leaders and nurses in senior positions will have a post graduate qualification
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
Consultant brings:• New perspective
• begins conversations that critiques long held beliefs
• Be a new voice
• Able to see beyond the here and now
A long held belief that won’t be questioned even if it gets in the way of progress.
Collaboration
• Repeated visits – Review, & revise – Skill preparation for next phase– Keep up momentum
• Strengths focused
• Relationship – Within and between
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
Shared Vision
Consultant Client
Meaningful CommunicationMutual Respect
No Shared Vision
Consultant Client
Perception Gap
Assist not run
Advise not control
Conclusions
• Relationship: from araikwao to wantok
• Collaboration –partnership based on respect for each others strengths
• Empowered to act and keep on developing