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Tristen Hensen 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Tristen Hensen is using her NEF scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Nursing Administration and Management from Norwich University. During the past 3 years she has worked on an Orthopedic/Trauma/Plastics medical-surgical floor and for 2 of those years... read more.

Sirena Hughes 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Sirena Hughes, NSNA winner, is currently enrolled in the Nurse Anesthesia program at Villanova University. After getting her BSN she worked in a Pediatrics Intensive Care unit at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It was here that she was inspired to... read more.

Sheryl Leary 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Sheryl Leary, Isabel Hampton Robb scholarship winner, is pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of San Diego while working as a clinical nurse specialist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. As a military spouse she has moved... read more.

Helen Masters 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Helen Masters, LILLIAN HIEMENZ award winner, worked as a Med/Surg nurse at Crittenden Regional Hospital but came to realize that her passion is oncology and the reason she became a nurse in the first place. She now works weekends providing direct pat... read more.

Mark McGraw 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Mark McGraw, winner of the MIRIAM POWELL scholarship, has been interested in pursuing a career as a nurse anesthetist since he got his BSN from the University of Delaware. After college he entered the critical care nurse internship program at Christi... read more.

Laura Mood 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Laura Mood who won the Margaret Tyson scholarship, has been a registered nurse for 17 years working in a peri-operative setting in multiple capacities. After earning her MSN from the University of Michigan she went on to teach as a full time instruct... read more.

Shaini Moonjeli 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Shaini Moonjeli, winner of the A.J.N. SCHOLARSHIP, began her career as a staff nurse in 1994 in a rural hospital in India. Currently she is working as an Advanced Nurse Clinician in the Coronary Care Unit at Emory University Hospital and studying in... read more.

Njoki Ng'Anga 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Njoki Ng’anga is using her Elizabeth Carnegie scholarship towards a PhD degree at Columbia University. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Nursing’s Center for Children and Families. She obtained her MSc in Health Systems from the Lond... read more.

Tara O'Brien 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Tara O'Brien is a second time winner of an NEF scholarship (this time the Evelyn Barclay award) as she continues working toward her PhD at the Medical University of South Carolina where her research topic is obesity among Appalachian women. Her futur... read more.

Alisa Pascale 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Alisa Pascale, winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen award, is a certified women’s health practitioner who spent the first 2 years of her NP career living and working in Cuba, New Mexico, with the Navajo Native Americans. Today she is practicing at Vincen... read more.

Kathryn Phillips 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Kathryn Phillips, the Lucy Perry scholarship winner, originally started her career in the business field after obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. After working a while in the business sector she took a position in long term c... read more.

Rafael Jose Ramos 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Rafael Jose Ramos is using his NEF scholarship award as a graduate student of Nursing Anesthesia at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He worked for 3 years at a Cardio-thoracic Intensive Care Unit at Stanford Hospitals in California before d... read more.

Jana Ryan 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Jana Ryan, ISABEL McISAAC Scholarship, is completing her work toward an MSN at St. Louis University in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track and plans to test for her ANCC certification in January. For the last 8 years she has wor... read more.

Faresha Sims 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Faresha Sims, winner of the ESTELLE OSBORNE scholarship, is a native Mississippian who is presently attending Virginia Commonwealth University Nurse Anesthesia Program. After completing her first year of advance practice study in the field of nurse a... read more.

Heather Warlan 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Heather Warlan is using her Barbara Tate scholarship towards her second year of pursuing a doctorate at the University of San Diego. Her undergraduate degree was in Psychology. She has worked as a research coordinator and eventually the assistant man... read more.

Ifeyinwa Asiodu 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Winner of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie scholarship is native Californian Ifeyinwa Asiodu, a nurse since 2003. Ifeyinwa received her Bachelor’s degree from USC. After attending a Summer Research Training Program at UCSF in 2006 she decided the School of... read more.

Analiza Baldonado 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: The Isabel McIsaac scholarship went to Analiza Baldonado who is continuing her graduate work at the University of Phoenix while working as the Quality Improvement Coordinator of Valley Health Plan. Analisa started her nursing education with a BSN in... read more.

Esther Bernhofer 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Whittaker scholarship winner, Esther Bernhofer, has combined a diverse nursing career with the raising of 8 children. Graduating with her BSN from the University of Akron in 1981 and went on to work at various institutions in the Cleveland area. Afte... read more.

Christopher Contino 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: NEF scholarship winner Christopher Contino started his studies in mechanical engineering while working as an emergency medical technician and that led to his true career in healthcare. He first obtained his paramedic certification from Thomas Jeffers... read more.

Kelly Conway 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: NEF scholarship winner, Kelly Conway, received her BSN and her MA from the University of San Francisco. Kelly feels a DNP would provide an improved ability to effect needed change on nursing practice, health care and health policy. Working in homeles... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Kimether Redmon

(2020-2021 Winner)

Kimether Redmon is the recipient of the NEF Estelle Massey Osborne Memorial Scholarship. Kimether earned her bachelor’s degree in Public Health from Temple University, her bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the... read more.

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