Dianne Ishida

Dianne Ishida, PhD, MA, MSN, RN
Associate Professor

 

School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 326
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-5405, Fax: 808-956-5296
Email: dianne@hawaii.edu

 

BS, University of Hawaii Manoa, 1968; MS, University of California San Francisco, 1969; MA, University of Hawaii Manoa, 1991; PhD, University of Hawaii Manoa, 1995.

 

Clinical Area of Focus: adult health, anthropology

 

I received my M.S at UCSF in adult health nursing and a minor in education and worked at local hospital for 6 years as an adult clinical specialist.  My work with patients with chronic renal disease initially then was needed in other areas such as medical nursing, ortho-neurosurgical specialty, diabetes, and gerontology.  I helped developed many specialty units working with patients and staff to improved the care to patients on those units.  After being enticed to the UHM, I taught many courses in the B.S. nursing program in adult health, culture, management, fundamentals, and complex nursing care.  I initiated the cooperative education program in nursing in 1990 and still help organize it each year with the UH Cooperative Education Office Coordinator.  My love for anthropology had been long standing from my undergraduate education.  While in the clinical setting, I felt need to better understand Pacific Islander cultures particularly Samoan.  I had the opportunity to take many Samoan language and culture courses in my graduate anthropology program.  My research focus continues in the area of early detection of breast cancer with Samoan women.  I was also interested in the teaching-learning process and did my dissertation on how nursing students from different cultures learned best.

My undergraduate nursing bachelor’s degree is from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa followed by a Master of Science in Nursing (Adult Health and minor in education) from University of California at San Francisco.  While teaching, I returned back to graduate school for my Master of Arts degree in Anthropology and my Doctor of Philosophy degree in Anthropology.  My program of study included education, Pacific and Asian cultures, and medical anthropology.

 

Teaching Topics: quality and case management and culture in the undergraduate program, the capstone and culture diversity in nursing education in the master's nursing education track and PhD program.

 

Recent Awards and Publications:

Ishida, D. (2006). Asian women and cancer.  In K. H. Dow (Ed.), Nursing Care of Women with Cancer (pp. 444-459).  St. Louis, MO:  Mosby Elsievier.  

Mayer, J. F., Ishida, D. N., Toomata-Mayer, T. F. (2005). Samoans.  In J. Lipson, S. Dibble, & P. Minarik (Eds.). Culture and Clinical Care (pp. 431-445).  SF: UCSF School of Nursing Press.

Ishida, D. (2005).  Professional issues in cancer care.  In J. K Itano and K. N. Taoka (Eds.), Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing (4^th ed., pp. 933-942), St. Louis: Elsivier Sanders.

Ishida, D. (2004). Asian American women and breast cancer.  In. K H. Dow (Ed.), Contemporary issues in breast cancer: A nursing perspective (2^nd ed.). (pp.299-310). Boston: Jones and Bartlett Pub.                                  

Ishida, D. & Inouye, J.  (2004). Japanese Americans.  In J. Giger & R. Davidhizar (Eds.), Transcultural nursing:  Assessment and intervention (4th ed., pp. 332-361), St Louis:  Mosby.

Ishida, D., Toomata-Mayer, T. F., & Braginsky, N. S. (2001).  Beliefs and attitudes of Samoan women toward early detection of breast cancer and mammography utilization. Cancer, 9l (S1) 262-266.

Ishida, D. (2001).  Making inroads on cancer prevention and control with Asian Americans.  Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 17 (3) 220-228.

Magnussen, L, Ishida, D., & Itano, J. (2000).  The impact of the use of inquiry-based learning as a teaching methodology on the development of critical thinking.  Journal of Nursing Education, 39 (8) 360-364.

Ishida, D. N. (1999). Promoting health among Asian American population groups: Case study from the field.  In R. M. Huff & M. V. Kline (Eds.). (pp. 375-381), Promoting health in multicultural population: A handbook for practitioners.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Ishida, D., Ako, M. & Sekiguchi, L.  (1998). Cooperative education in nursing - A strategy for increasing marketability.  Journal of Nursing Education, 37(6) 260-263.

Ishida, D. N.  (1998). The use of problem-based learning tutorials with a predominately Asian-American nursing student population.  In L. Zhan (Ed.), Asian Voices: Asian and Asian American health educators speak out (pp. 171-186).  Sundbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.