Kelly Conway
2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree
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 homeless programs over the past 8 years has fostered one area of interest – the factors that contribute to a homeless veteran’s success or failure in transitional housing and permanent housing. She has participated in research studies data collection as it relates to the overall homeless programs and is responsible to disseminate that information to the non-profit community providers where she oversees the VA grant funds.
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Adaya Kirk Bayless
(2019-2020 Winner)
Adaya Kirk Bayless is the recipient of the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. She graduated from her undergraduate program at the University of Tennessee College of Nursing as the top collegiate scholar with her Bache... read more.
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Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established by nurses for nurses in 1912, and since then, the organization has awarded over 1,500 scholarships to support the pursuit of advanced degrees in nursing.
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