STAND. COM. REP. 530

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1433

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1433 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a two-year Operation Nightingale program (Nightingale program) to design and operate review and training courses to enable nursing school graduates to pass the written examination required by the Board of Nursing.

The Hawaii Nurses' Association and Filipino Nurses' Organization of Hawaii supported this measure with amendments. The Department of Health (DOH) submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting obsolete language pertaining to time requirements of the nursing license examination;

(2) Requiring that the Nightingale program be administered by an accredited nursing school and taught by qualified instructors;

 

(3) Including a clinical component in the Nightingale program;

(4) Requiring DOH to monitor the Nightingale program and to develop criteria for the selection of applicants, with the assistance of professional nursing organizations; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1433, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair