Report Title:

UH; Nursing; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds for additional faculty and program support for nursing and dental hygiene at the University of Hawaii.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

3160

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

The legislature finds that numerous studies have recognized the national shortage of qualified nurses which will reach a twenty per cent staffing shortfall in 2020. A nursing shortage jeopardizes the quality of health care provided in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, clinics, and other health care settings.

In Hawaii, the 2005 projected shortage of registered nurses is 1,518, and this is expected to grow to 2,267 by 2010. The nursing shortage is exacerbated by the increasing number of the aging population. Hawaii's population is aging faster than the rest of the country. Between 2000 and 2020 the number of people age sixty and older will increase by almost seventy-five per cent. Because Hawaii's registered nurse workforce is also aging, an increasing number of registered nurses are anticipated to retire. Accordingly, the significant shortage of registered nurses is expected to worsen.

Nursing schools are the gateway to the "nursing pipeline". A main factor to bolstering the supply and lessening the effects of the nursing shortage is dependent on the educational capacity of nursing schools. In the fall of 2005, three hundred fifty-five qualified applicants were turned away from the nursing programs at the University of Hawaii.

The legislature finds that key factors to increasing the educational capacity of the state's nursing programs are:

(1) The number of faculty and support positions to admit additional students;

(2) The ability to educate, recruit, retain and compensate qualified faculty; and

(3) The available physical infrastructure and learning resource opportunities to support growing demands.

The legislature finds that ongoing continued support and a strategic public sector approach is necessary to sustain a robust, qualified nursing workforce to meet Hawaii's health care needs into the future. The University of Hawaii's nursing programs have a plan to increase educational capacity for nursing and dental hygiene but funding must be allocated to support implementation of the plan.

The purpose of this Act is to allocate positions and funding to the University of Hawaii's nursing programs.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $18,648,901, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the University of Hawaii nursing and dental hygiene program in order to address the current and projected shortage of nurses needed throughout the State, as follows:

A. Additional faculty and program support – University of Hawaii at Manoa.

1. Personal services

Instructor 12M11 (accelerated BS program) $70,164

Instructor 12M11 (accelerated BS program) 70,164

Instructor 12M11 (accelerated BS program) 70,164

Coordinator, PBA (accelerated program) 40,000

Instructor 12M11 (nursing BS program) 70,164

Instructor 12M11 (nursing BS program) 70,164

Instructor 12M11 (nursing BS program) 70,164

Coordinator, PBB (nursing BS program) 50,000

Instit support, PBB (nursing BS program) 50,000

Instit support, PBA (student services) 40,000

Instit support, PBA (student services) 40,000

IT specialist, PBB (info system) 65,733

Instit support, PBA (admin services) 40,060

Clerk typist, SR12 (nursing BS program) 28,033

Subtotal personal service costs $ 774,810

2. Operational program costs 313,190

Total request $1,088,000

B. Conversion of temporary to permanent support positions in order to stabilize the support infrastructure for the school at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

IT specialist (APT-PBB) $70,368

Admin officer (APT-PBB) 42,074

Student services support (APT-PBA) 42,913

Clerical support 28,034

Subtotal personal service costs $183,389

C. Funding to fill vacant dental hygiene faculty positions and increase dental hygiene faculty – University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Instructor, 12M09 $47,400

Assistant professor, 13M09 57,648

Assistant professor, 13M11 67,464

Subtotal personal service costs $172,512

D. Funding to hire faculty to provide instructional support to increase the undergraduate enrollment to address the statewide and national shortage of trained professional nurses and to encourage enrollment among underrepresented populations, the addition of general funds to hire .50 full time permanent advisor and recruiter – University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Assistant professor $67,905

Assistant professor 67,905

Assistant professor 67,905

Instructor 61,241

Instructor 61,241

Assistant specialist 33,952

Subtotal personal service costs $360,149

E. Funding to expand PhD in nursing program – University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Assistant specialist (S3M11) $49,283

Teaching GAM09 17,153

Teaching GAM09 17,153

Instructor 12M09 57,637

Instructor 12M09 28,818

Research GAM11 20,063

Research GAM11 20,063

Subtotal personal service cost $210,170

F. Additional faculty and program support to increase graduation of 25 Nursing Faculty at the Master's level – University of Hawaii at Manoa.

1. Personal services

Associate professor, 14M11 (accelerated MS) $108,024

Associate professor, 14M11 (accelerated MS) 108,024

Assistant professor, 13M11 (accelerated MS) 85,344

Coordinator, PBA (accelerated MS) 40,000

Subtotal personal service costs $341,392

2. Operational program costs $178,608

Total request $520,000

G. Establishment of proper expenditure ceiling to allow the Hawaii State Center for Nursing to expend funds collected in order to meet the objectives of the Center. The funds referred to consists of special fees collected from professional nurses to fund the Center's activities to research workforce issues - University of Hawaii at Manoa.

1. Personal services

Executive director $ 87,360

Institutional support 34,711

Researcher 100,000

Fringe benefits 103,599

Subtotal personal service costs $325,670

2. Other current expenses

Operational supplies $ 68,500

Travel 21,000

Recruitment 6,000

Special projects 134,630

Subtotal other current expenses $230,130

Total request $555,800

H. Kapiolani community college nurse preparation.

1. Personal services

Ten faculty $600,000

Shortage category differential 362,381

Subtotal personal services $962,381

2. Other current expenses

Educational supplies $25,000

Non-inventory equipment 20,000

Subtotal other current expenses $ 45,000

Total request $1,007,381

I. Nurse preparation – Hawaii community college

1. Personal services

6.5 Faculty positions $442,000

2. Other current expenses

Educational expenses $ 25,000

Non-inventory expenses 20,000

Renovate facilities/lease rent 163,500

Subtotal other current expenses $208,500

Total request $650,500

J. Nursing preparation – Maui community college

1. Personal services

6.5 faculty positions $442,000

2. Other current expenses

Educational supplies $ 25,000

Non-inventory equipment 20,000

Renovate facilities/lease rent 300,000

Subtotal other current expenses $345,000

Total request $787,000

K. Nursing preparation – Kauai community college

1. Personal services

6.5 faculty positions $442,000

Lecturers 27,000

Subtotal personal services $469,000

2. Other current expenses

Educational supplies $25,000

Non-inventory equipment 20,000

Subtotal personal services 45,000

Total request $514,000

L. Distance and simulation learning – University of Hawaii at Manoa

1. Construction and equipment $3,000,000

M. Nursing faculty salary adjustments – University of Hawaii systemwide

1. Personnel services $3,600,000

N. Faculty planning – University f Hawaii at Manoa

1. Personnel services $6,000,000

SECTION 2. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.

INTRODUCED BY:

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