Augusta Rengiil, retired nurse and former Nursing Consultant, Executive Director of Community Health Centers, and Director of Non-Communicable Diseases at the Belau National Hospital publishes “Early History of Nursing & Health Services in Micronesia Book 1”.
Ms. Rengiil compiled information of nursing and health services between the periods of World War II through 1976 in what were formerly the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). They are now the Micronesian island nations of the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (Saipan, Rota, and Tinian), the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
This book, consisting of eight chapters, provides an in-depth account of a thirty-year history of nursing and health services after WWII, from the Japanese Administration to the training of medical personnel to the development of public health nursing programs throughout Micronesia.
“I wanted to write a book to leave a legacy so it could educate all young people, doctors and nurses who do not know how nursing and health services started and how it developed into what it is today,” Ms. Rengiil states.
Ms. Rengiil further states this is the first of two books; the second will cover the periods between 1976-1998 when she served as a Public Health Nurse Specialist and Acting Director of Maternal Child Health at the TTPI BHS headquarters in Saipan from 1976-1981, then as an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Guam from 1982-1998.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy, you may contact her directly at sebeluu8448@gmail.com or at 680-775-0040 or 680-587-2464. (Metelleklang Kevin Iyechad, Contributor)