VNR: UH nursing students help in pandemic fight

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contact:
Desiree L Uyeda, (808) 741-0617
Marketing Mgr, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
Posted: Apr 23, 2020

UH Manoa Nursing undergraduate nursing students
UH Manoa Nursing undergraduate nursing students

Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/2XKQjLx 

 

WHO: 

UH Mānoa nursing students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs in the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene.

 

WHAT:  

To answer the health care community’s call for help during the COVID-19 pandemic while also earning clinical hours required to graduate. 

 

Nursing students are volunteering and assisting with phone calls and answering questions related to COVID-19 and other health related issues. Some are assisting with patient transport and screening patients, employees and visitors for fevers and other medical issues. 

 

WHY:

A significant demand is being placed on the entire nursing workforce.

 

WHERE:  

The Queen’s Medical Center, Kahuku Medical Center, Waimanalo Health Center, The Institute for Human Services, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.

 

OTHER FACTS:

  • The school has long standing partnerships with healthcare facilities, community health agencies, Department of Education and the Department of Health
     

  • These non-traditional clinical experiences were created based on the agency/entity's needs to respond to the pandemic that counted as clinical hours for the students.

 

  • The school is preparing students, faculty and staff on the COVID-19 response by providing training on epidemiology, immunizations and herd immunity, surveillance, screening during epidemics, outbreak investigation, epidemic response and personal and family preparedness. These free online modules are available to all nurses and healthcare workers.
     

  • Nursing students can also be hired by a hospital or care facility on a full- or part-time basis as a student nurse for compensation with faculty supervision and earn academic credit.  

 

  • For more information or to request assistance, contact Wendy Suetsugu, Director for Clinical Placement and Operations at wendyy@hawaii.edu. 


 

VIDEO:

BROLL:

(1 minute, 40 seconds)
0:00-0:40: Nursing school students

SOUND:

Matthew Robertson
UH Mānoa Doctor of Nursing Practice/Family Nurse Practitioner student

(14 seconds)
My volunteer experience has been outstanding. All of the staff at the Department of Health have been supportive and professional and welcoming of us UH students. I feel the work that I’m doing is impactful and helpful. 

(14 seconds)
That's why I’ve been going to school, to assist in situations like this. Now that it's presented itself, I’ve learned a lot from Mānoa and I’m able to help and it just feels really good and I’m grateful to be doing what I’m doing.