The 39th Annual American Pacific Nursing Leaders Council (APNLC) conference ends today with the election of new officers and board of directors.
“Pacific Nurses: Strengthening Collaborative Partnership in Reducing the Burden of Global Health Care Challenges” is the theme of the 2017 conference, which the American Samoa Nursing Association is hosting for the first time in a decade.
The venue is Kanana fou.
An ava ceremony was held at the Guest Fale at Suiga ula o le Atuvasa on Saturday to officially welcome off island delegates who cam from the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Chuuk, Guam, Hawai’i, Kosrae, Marshall Islands, Palau, Phonpei and Yap. 
Director of the Nursing Program at the American Samoa Community College, Ms. Lele Ah Mu who sits on the APNLC board as the Vice President, is leading the conference in the absence of President Rosa Tudela from the CNMI.
Ms. Ah Mu says as in previous years, nurse leaders from the US Pacific discussed solutions to common health issues in the region such as the shortage of nurses, lack of qualified nursing facilities and in general “poor health care resource/delivery.”
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