Janet is the primary faculty and coordinator for maternal-newborn nursing courses in the undergraduate BS nursing program since Fall 1994. She has developed, implemented, evaluated, and revised all aspects of the maternal-newborn nursing courses in both the traditional and accelerated BS programs. She is has served as the Chair of the Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee since Fall 1996. She has major responsibility in facilitating the admission, progression, and graduation of students in the undergraduate nursing program and in the review and selection of undergraduate students for scholarships and awards. In 2011, Janet was honored with the DAISY Faculty Award in recognition of her commitment and inspirational influence on her students. She was the 2007 recipient of the UHM Chancellor?s Citation for Meritorious Teaching and also received the Professional Professor Award (Nurse Educator) Award for the Department of Nursing in December 2008. She has maintained her ANCC Board Re-certification as a Perinatal Nurse from December 1, 2008 to November 30, 2013. Education: MS, University of California at San Francisco, BS, University of Hawaii at Manoa Clinical Practice: Maternal-Newborn Nursing Research Focus: Health Promotion and Education of the Childbearing Client and Family and in Predictors of Program and NCLEX-RN Success in a Traditional BSN program Recent Publications: Uyehara, J., Magnussen, L., Itano, J., & Zhang, S. (2007). Facilitating program and NCLEX-RN success in a generic BSN program. Nursing Forum. 42(1), 31-38.