May 27, 2001
Future nurses head to Moloka'i
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(Honolulu Advertiser) If it sounds a bit ambitious, well, it is. But a small group of Hawaii Pacific University students plan to learn more in four days this week than in the rest of their years in nursing school.
Kalaupapa is like that, they say.
Eight nursing students will leave for Moloka'i Tuesday morning for what they expect will be the highlight of their education. They'll spend four days volunteering — anything from pulling weeds to beach cleaning — and living at Kalaupapa to learn about the isolated peninsula where patients of Hansen's disease once were exiled.
The trip is part of a transcultural nursing class, where students immerse themselves in a community to learn how culture affects health care and how nurses can best care for people by understanding a community's spirituality.
"It changes the perspective of the students," said Jeanine Tweedie, nursing professor and coordinator. "They learn to overcome stigma and stereotype. It's very inspiring. It shows how caring is interrelated with spiritual belief. That's something that we don't emphasize enough." http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/
2001/May/27/ln/ln27a.html
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