Centers
The School of Nursing and Dental Hygien's P-20 Exploratory Center for 'Ohana Self-Management of Chronic Illness
The Center will test etablished family and community focused self-management interventions in ethnically diverse populations with chronic illnesses. Social consequences of chronic illness are increasingly recognized and solutions require strategic interdisciplinary research approaches. In tandem with understanding the biologically-based symptoms of a chronic illness, prevention and successful treatment require a scientific understanding of the impacts and interactions of ethnicity, culture, and illness on implementation of community based intervention.
Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research
The Center is a collaborative partnership between the University of Washington and The University of Hawaii at Manoa Schools of Nursing that will foster sustainable mechanisms for scholarship development in health disparities. The Center is mentoring nurse researchers through learning institutes, guided research studies, and dissemination of new knowledge. Both the Schools of Nursing are working toward unearthing cultural, institutional, political, linguistic, and economic roadblocks to care and bring that knowledge back to both those who can benefit from and those who can act on such insights.
Hawai'i Quentin Burdick Rural Health Interdisciplinary Program
The Quentin Burdick Rural Health Interdisciplinary Program is a collaborative program co-sponsored by the University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, University Health Group, and the Kauai Rural Health Association. The program provides an opportunity for University of Hawaii-Manoa students from the schools of Medicine, Social Work, Nursing & Dental Hygiene, Education, the departments of Psychology, Public Health, Speech Communication, Nutrition, and the divisions of Medical Technology and Speech-Language Audiology to participate in an interdisciplinary rural health practicum.
Hawaii State Center of Nursing
Our purpose is to assure that the State of Hawai`i has the nursing resources necessary to meet the healthcare needs of its people! Our healthcare environment shows an aging population with increased health care needs; an aging nursing workforce headed toward retirement and a shortage of nursing faculty to educate future nurses. Based on projections which show a significant nursing shortage, the Hawai`i State Legislature in 2003 created the Hawai`i State Center for Nursing (Act 198, HB 422).
Hui Ola Pono
Hui Ola Pono is the community-based service vehicle for the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene. The program is administered collaboratively with the Hawai'i Department of Human Services and focuses upon increasing access and delivery of services to the Medicaid population and education and/or training of health professionals and paraprofessionals. Current areas of interest include child and adolescent mental health services, community based care for the growing geriatric population, foster parent training integrating health promotion, and Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT).