Manoa Offering Innovative New Online PhD in Nursing
The Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene is has been approved
to offer an online PhD program in nursing. This is the first Manoa
PhD program to be offered using this method of instruction. The
online degree breaks new ground for the university as it explores
alternate ways of providing quality programs and increased access
to students. The PhD program prepares nurse scholars to conduct
clinical scholarship and to teach in nursing education programs,
especially those with minority student populations.
Hawai‘i currently has a shortage of registered nurses, which
is expected to quadruple in size by 2020, according to a recent
report on the state of the nursing workforce. Nursing educators
are the gateway to the “nursing pipeline.” Yet there
are too few faculty in Hawai‘i’s public nursing schools
to meet the increasing demand. The online program hopes to increase
the supply of qualified nursing educators and increase the possibility
for research in the nursing workforce, thereby improving the quality
of nursing education and practice in Hawai‘i and the Pacific
region.
The program will be offered by distance learning modalities statewide
and to the mainland beginning this fall. Most of the courses will
be offered via the internet, email, list-serves and other web-based
technology. Students will participate in three to four on-campus
meetings throughout the course of the program to foster learning
in an academic and scholarly community. A weeklong on-campus intensive
meeting is required prior to the start of the first semester.
For more information on the program, contact the School of Nursing
and Dental Hygiene Student Services Office at (808) 956-8939 or
check out the school’s website. |
