Frankie B. Hale, PhD, RN
Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 412
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: 808-956-5041
Fax: 808-956-3257
Email: halef@hawaii.edu
Biography
Dr. Frankie Hale teaches pathophysiology, among other didactic courses in the undergraduate and graduate curriculums at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing. She also has experience teaching clinical sections for psychiatric-mental health, public health, and complex nursing courses in the undergraduate curriculum at UHM and as a volunteer educator for the Certified Nursing Assistant Program through Faith Action for Community Equity.
Before joining academia in 2010, Dr. Hale served as a registered nurse in the following areas for 14 years: Mother-baby care, intermediate nursery, outreach education, cardiac care management, child and adolescent psychiatric-mental health, behavioral health case management, advice (triage) nursing, and adult critical care. In addition, she served as a charge nurse in several hospitals on their mother-baby and child and adolescent psychiatric-mental health units.
At UHM, Dr. Hale precepted a Georgetown University nurse educator student for one and a half years. She has served on the undergraduate curriculum, undergraduate student affairs, course coordinator, behavioral health, honors committees, and the faculty senate (Culture of Excellence) task force as co-chair and NCLEX-RN task force. In addition, Dr. Hale was secretary for the faculty senate for three years. She currently co-chairs the research and Master’s Curriculum committees and serves on the UHPA (Union) Board of Directors UH Manoa Constituency Unit. Dr. Hale holds professional memberships include the American Nurses Association; Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI); National Black Nurses Association; American Psychiatric Nurses Association; and the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. She has served as a Counselor for STTI Gamma Psi-at-Large Chapter since 2014. In fall 2015 and spring 2018, she received the Nurse Educator Award. In 2023, she received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty and was the Department of Nursing Finalist for the UH Manoa Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Howard University, specialized in nursing education for her Master of Science from Georgetown University, and earned her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.