  {"id":106450,"date":"2019-11-18T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=106450"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:26:20","slug":"hilo-nursing-dnp-reaccreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/18\/hilo-nursing-dnp-reaccreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo School of Nursing receives reaccreditation through 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_106480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106480\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-nursing-accreditation-2.jpg\" alt=\"nursing graduates\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-nursing-accreditation-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-nursing-accreditation-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-nursing-accreditation-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent graduates from the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Doctor of Nursing Practice program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacnnursing.org\/CCNE\">Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education<\/a> recently reaccredited the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Doctor of Nursing Practice (<abbr>DNP<\/abbr>) program through 2029, the maximum 10-year term following a rigorous process that included a self-study, site visit and a review of the <abbr>DNP<\/abbr> nursing curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/depts\/nursing\/\">School of Nursing<\/a> is dedicated to our community and committed to providing high-quality education to prepare advanced practice nurses equipped with the skills to ensure the delivery of safe, quality nursing care in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; said School of Nursing Director <strong>Joan Thompson Pagan<\/strong>. &ldquo;We are very excited to share this news and look forward to continuing to help meet the health care needs of our community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo <abbr>DNP<\/abbr> program currently has 28 students, and has graduated 39 students since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This achievement brings our School of Nursing closer to realizing its mission of elevating healthcare throughout <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> and the world,&rdquo; noted Interim Dean <strong>Jim Beets<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/cnhs\/\">College of Natural and Health Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education is officially recognized by the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Secretary of Education as a national accreditation agency, contributing to the improvement of the public&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education reaccredited the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Doctor of Nursing Practice program through 2029, the maximum 10-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[683,1296,189,839,14],"class_list":["post-106450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-accreditation","tag-college-of-natural-and-health-sciences","tag-nursing","tag-school-of-nursing","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106450"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106483,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106450\/revisions\/106483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}