Nursing

OUR MISSION

Hawai‘i Pacific University Nursing Department is committed to educating competent and caring professionals in the practice of health promotion and healthcare. Graduates are life-long learners and leaders dedicated to delivering holistic care in the spirit of aloha for a global community.

OUR VALUES

The faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Public Health join the rest of the Hawai‘i Pacific University community in embracing the following values as representative of the spiritual, ethical, and philosophical principles that support our community, as well as of the aspirational ideals to which we collectively aspire.

• PONO - meaning righteous, honest and moral, and an energy of necessity.
• KULEANA - meaning responsibility and rights, and concern for all interests, property, and people.
• ALOHA - meaning hello, goodbye, love, kindness and grace, unity, humility, patience and waiting for the right moment.