{"id":121470,"date":"2020-06-25T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T22:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=121470"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:43:12","slug":"full-time-contact-tracers-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/25\/full-time-contact-tracers-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical healthcare professionals needed to become full-time contact tracers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/system-covid19-contact-tracing2.jpg\" alt=\"graphic of clinical health professionals with masks\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/system-covid19-contact-tracing2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/system-covid19-contact-tracing2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/system-covid19-contact-tracing2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the increasing numbers of <abbr title=\"coronavirus 2019\">COVID-19<\/abbr> cases throughout <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/07\/uh-begins-training-contact-tracers\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Department of Health (<abbr>东精影业-DOH<\/abbr>) Contact Tracing Training Program<\/a> is seeking additional applicants with clinical healthcare backgrounds and an undergraduate degree who are available to be activated by <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> as full-time contact tracers for up to three months in the near future. A smaller number of applicants able to serve part-time (at least 20 hours per week) will be considered.<\/p>\n<p>These contact tracers will provide the supplemental workforce capacity to identify and facilitate isolating individuals who are sick or have been exposed to someone with <abbr>COVID-19<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.hawaii.edu\/AYD\">Sign up here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Given the state\u2019s reopening and rise in <abbr>COVID-19<\/abbr> cases, our partnership will serve <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> and the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> by providing the needed contact tracing training programs,&rdquo; said <strong>Aimee Grace<\/strong>, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> program lead and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/uhealthy-hawaii\/\">东精影业ealthy <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Initiative<\/a>. &ldquo;We are now specifically seeking clinical healthcare professionals who are available to be activated by <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> full-time as contact tracers.&rdquo;  <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>东精影业-DOH<\/abbr> program <a href=\"http:\/\/go.hawaii.edu\/AYD\">has reopened registration<\/a> for Track 1: Contact Tracing Training for Clinical Healthcare Professional to meet this urgent need. The free, accelerated, one-and-a-half day online training course is open to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Registered nurses<\/li>\n<li>Nurse practitioners<\/li>\n<li>Social workers<\/li>\n<li>Pharmacists<\/li>\n<li>Physicians<\/li>\n<li>Physician assistants<\/li>\n<li>Emergency medical technicians (<abbr>EMT<\/abbr>s)<\/li>\n<li>Paramedics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> is providing the contact tracing training as part of the partnership, <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> will activate and manage any needed contact tracers. Once training has been completed, the contact tracers will be activated as needed for a short-term period of up to three months.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?s=UH-DOH+Contact+Tracing+Program\">Read more <em><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories about the <abbr>东精影业-DOH<\/abbr> Contact Tracing Training Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Track 1 training for clinical healthcare professionals is being administered by <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nursing.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene<\/a> (<abbr>SONDH<\/abbr>) and has been developed jointly with <abbr>DOH<\/abbr>. Track 1 program lead <strong>Kristine Qureshi<\/strong> said, &ldquo;The <abbr>SONDH<\/abbr> has an extraordinary team of individuals who are able, willing and ready to respond to the demand of training the number of contact tracers who are needed to support our state during this challenging time.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Signups are ongoing for two other training arms that are also part of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>&#8211;<abbr>DOH<\/abbr> program: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Track 2: Community Contact Tracer Training&#8212;A six-week training program for those with undergraduate degrees but who do not have clinical backgrounds, and are available for full-time activation by <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> after program completion.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Community Health Worker Training&#8212;Requires a high school degree or <abbr title=\"general education diploma\">GED<\/abbr>.<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.hawaii.edu\/AYC\">View the flyer<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>) for more information about any of these programs <a href=\"http:\/\/go.hawaii.edu\/AYD\">and sign up online<\/a>. For specific questions email <a href=\"mailto:oshi@hawaii.edu\">oshi@hawaii.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr title=\"university of Hawaii-department of health\">东精影业-DOH<\/abbr> Contact Tracing Training Program has reopened registration for Track 1 to meet this need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1416,165,167,9,947,1448],"class_list":["post-121470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-health","tag-school-of-nursing-and-dental-hygiene","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-doh-contact-tracing","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121470"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124085,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121470\/revisions\/124085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}