Lorrie Wong
Instructor
Director for Simulation Learning
School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 309 E
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-3885, Fax: 808-956-3257
Email: lorriew@hawaii.edu
Clinical Area of Focus: adult health
Lorrie Wong has been a nursing instructor at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa for the past seventeen years. In 2006, she was appointed as the Director for Simulation Learning responsible for the new state-of-the art simulation laboratory and is facilitating expansion of simulation learning in the nursing curriculum which provides students with a chance to practice clinical skills and experience a crisis situation in a non-threatening environment.
She is an adult advanced practice nurse with experience in critical care, intensive care and trauma. She has been honored five times with the Nurse Educator Award, a recognition provided by the graduating class of nursing students and received the University of Hawai‘i Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching in 2004.
Actively involved in integrating new technology into nursing education, she participated in the INSTAANT Project, a collaborative effort utilizing a web-based application that was developed by Tripler Medical Center and the Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui to create nursing skill modules which were delivered via streaming media content over the web. In addition, she has developed web-enhanced courses in pathophysiology and adult health nursing and created web-based modules for disaster preparedness and bioterrorism training for nurses.
Ms. Wong is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the nursing honor society. She is currently enrolled in the online PhD in Nursing program at UH. She received a master’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree and post-master’s certificate in Adult advanced practice nursing from the University of Hawai‘i.