Janet Uyehara

Janet Uyehara, RNC, MSN
Assistant Professor

 

School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 319
Honolulu,HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-5330, Fax: 808-956-3257
Email: juyehara@hawaii.edu

 

BS, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1968;  MS, University of California at San Francisco, 1969.

 

Clinical Area of Focus: maternal-child

 

I am the primary faculty and coordinator for maternal-newborn nursing courses in the undergraduate BS nursing program since Fall 1994.  I have developed, implemented, evaluated, and revised all aspects of the courses in both the generic and accelerated BS programs.  As Chair of the Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee since Fall 1996, I have a major responsibility in facilitating the admission, progression, and graduation of students in the undergraduate nursing program and the review and selection of undergraduate students for scholarships and awards.  My research interests are in the areas of  health promotion and education of the childbearing client and family and in predictors of program and NCLEX-RN success in a generic BSN program.

I am the primary faculty and coordinator for maternal-newborn nursing courses in the undergraduate BS nursing program since Fall 1994.  I have developed, implemented, evaluated, and revised all aspects of the courses in both the generic and accelerated BS programs.  As Chair of the Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee since Fall 1996, I have a major responsibility in facilitating the admission, progression, and graduation of students in the undergraduate nursing program and the review and selection of undergraduate students for scholarships and awards.  My research interests are in the areas of  health promotion and education of the childbearing client and family and in predictors of program and NCLEX-RN success in a generic BSN program.

Teaching Topics: maternal-newborn nursing:  trends & issues, pregnancy, labor & delivery, post-partum, parent-newborn interaction, newborn nutrition, newborn, family planning (birth control, infertility, genetic screening & counseling), high risk pregnancy, high risk childbirth, postpartum complications, high risk newborn, adolescent pregnancy, neonatal loss

 

Recent Awards and Publications:  

Short Term Community-Based Faculty Development Fuld Fellowships – April 1999
                (Use of WIC & GRADS sites for N372L health teaching experiences)

 

Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Psi Chapter at Large Grant  to fund study on predictors of program success and NCLEX success in a generic BSN program;  conducted study with Dr. J. Itano, Dr. L. Magnussen, & Dr. S. Zhang

 

Nurse Educator Award, Department of Nursing, May 17, 2003

 

Nominee for the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Dept. of Nursing, March 2005

 

Uyehara, J. and Richardson, K. (2000, Sept./Oct.). Facilitating health education and
                promotion in the childbearing community client. Nurse Educator, 25 (5), 206,
                209, 212.

 

Uyehara, J., Magnussen, L., Itano, J., & Zhang, S. (in press). Facilitating program and
                NCLEX-RN success in a generic BSN program.  Nursing Forum.