By Staff Reports
(Oahu)– UH Mānoa Nursing invites all UH Mānoa veterans, faculty, staff and students to attend the 2016 Veteran’s Day Celebration. Purpose of the event is to honor all veterans and to recognize 13 student veterans who will receive scholarships to purse higher education. Student veterans will receive between $2,500 to $5,000 to further their nursing education at UH Mānoa, Kapiʻolani Community College, Kauaʻi Community College and Maui College. Scholarship recipients will be in attendance.
The UH Mānoa Nursing Veterans to BSN Program provides college credit for a veteran’s past medical experience, creating a quick pathway to professional nursing and employment for service members with skills and experience in health care. The initiative is the first program of its kind in Hawaiʻi and is part of the national effort to address the growing demand for health-care services throughout our nation.
The celebration will include Posting of Colors by the UH Mānoa Army ROTC Color Guard and singing of the National Anthem and State Song by UH Mānoa students. A moment of silence to remember the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war will be followed by remarks from U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono, Interim Chancellor David Lassner, UH Mānoa Nursing Dean Mary G. Boland, and keynote speaker Jared Lyon, president and CEO of Student Veterans of America. The celebration will be followed by a free cake reception honoring the U.S Marine Corps 241st birthday on November 10.
This event is supported by the UH Mānoa Nursing Achieving a BS in Nursing – A Veterans’ Initiative Program and the UH Mānoa Student Activity & Program Fee Board. Special thanks to the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, the Shelley Wilson Nursing Scholarship for Veterans and Dr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu for supporting nursing student veteran scholarships.
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Grant no. UF1HP26981. For more information about the Veterans to Nurses program visit www.nursing.hawaii.edu/vetstonurses. For information about the event, visit www.nursing.hawaii.edu/veteransday2016.
About UH Mānoa Nursing
UH Mānoa Nursing, the Nursing Capitol of the Pacific, is the leader in nursing education and research in Hawai‘i with outreach to Asia and the Pacific Basin. We support the mission of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: to provide an innovative, caring and multicultural environment in which faculty, students and staff work together to generate and transmit knowledge, wisdom, and values to promote quality of life and health for present and future generations. The school offers the BS, master’s, and doctoral programs. To reflect Hawai‘i’s unique cultural diversity and heritage, UH Mānoa Nursing is committed to increasing the representation of Native Hawaiian and other underserved people in all nursing programs. Visit us at www.nursing.hawaii.edu.