Hoping to help address the island’s shortage of registered nurses, the Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce announced recently it will initiate a program to bring to Kaua’i a nursing review class to prepare nursing-school graduates for licensing examinations. The review
Hoping to help address the island’s shortage of registered nurses, the Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce announced recently it will initiate a program to bring to Kaua’i a nursing review class to prepare nursing-school graduates for licensing examinations.
The review class will involve eight weekend sessions, each session consisting of eight hours, with a maximum of 20 participants. A trained review-class instructor from O’ahu will facilitate the class.
This project may help facilitate professional advancement of review participants that eventually will contribute to the general welfare of the community, Chamber leaders said.
It is anticipated that those who successfully complete the review course will successfully pass registered-nurse board examinations. A review team from O’ahu will lead the class, with one member specializing in medical surgery nursing, and one in pediatric and obstetrics/gynecology nursing.
The review class is tentatively scheduled to start this Saturday, June 29, and run through Sunday, July 21, on both Saturdays and Sundays.
If the course is held only on Saturdays, it will run through Saturday, Sept. 7. A minimum of 48 class hours are required. Classes will run 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Kauai Community College.
Test-taking skills, the nursing process, psychiatric nursing, emergency department pre- and post-operative nursing, medical surgical nursing, pharmacology, pediatric nursing, obstetric nursing, and other topics will be covered.
The nursing review class will cost every participant about $275.
For more information, please contact Liza Trinidad, project chairman, 338-1681 weekdays during business hours, or Oscar Portugal, Chamber president, 241-6630 weekdays during business hours.
