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Camille Almada 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Camille Almada is the recipient of the Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship which is awarded to students interested in public health. She currently attends Pace University’s Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s Program. Her first undergraduate degree was a BA... read more.

Elizabeth Balleweg 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Elizabeth Balleweg, recipient of the Geraldine Labecki Scholarship, is pursuing a Master’s Degree at Frontier Nursing University to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Montana State University in... read more.

Becky Bowler 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Becky Bowler is the recipient of the Norman and Alicia Volk/NEF Scholarship. She is currently attending Boston College in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program. Becky received her Bachelors degree in nursing... read more.

Dana Connolly 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Dana Connolly is honored to have received the Miriam M. Powell Scholarship. She graduated from the UCLA School of Nursing as an undergraduate in 2013 and worked as an ICU and emergency nurse at UCLA before deciding to return to UCLA’s Family Nurse Pr... read more.

Calli Cook 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Calli Cook awarded the Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship is an Advanced Practice Registered Nursing practicing in Georgia. She holds a BSN from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a MSN from Emory University, and is currently a DNP student at T... read more.

Jennifer Dillon 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Jennifer Dillon MPA, RN-BC is the recipient of the 2018 Mathy Mezey Scholarship. Following a six-year enlistment in the U.S. Air Force, Jennifer made the decision to pursue nursing as she has a passion for both science and healthcare. She graduated c... read more.

Jodi Feinberg 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Jodi Feinberg is the recipient of the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing for her undergraduate degree, and is currently a graduate student at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in the Adult Geron... read more.

Athena Ford 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Athena D. Ford, PhD(c), BSN, RN is the recipient of the AJN/Thelma Schorr Scholarship – given to a graduate nurse who exemplifies characteristics of a nursing leader who plans to exercise the "voice" of nursing through speaking or writing. Ford is a... read more.

Annie George 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Dr. Annie George is the Senior Director of Nursing Excellence and Research at the Office of Patient Centered Care NYC Health+ Hospitals, the largest muncipal health system in the country. In her current role at the Office of Patient Centered Care/Off... read more.

Allison Gilmer 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Allison Gilmer is a recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. Allison is pursuing a master’s degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. She chose a career in nursing because... read more.

Cassandra Godzik 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Cassandra is the recipient of the Laura D. Smith NSNA Scholarship. She started her nursing journey as a nursing assistant in an older adult memory care unit. She went on to work as an EMT on a college-run ambulance and was exposed to psychiatric emer... read more.

Kattiria Gonzalez 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Kattiria M Rosario Gonzalez is the recipient of the 2018 Judith G. Whitaker Scholarship. She is currently a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton University, Decker School of Nursing, in Binghamton, NY. Kattiria received her AAS in Nursing from St. Joseph’s... read more.

Cara Harris 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Cara Harris is the recipient of the Freedmen’s Hospital Nurses’ Alumni Clubs, Inc. Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship through the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF). Ms Harris is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with 24 years of service at The Ohio Stat... read more.

Marit Knutson 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Marit Knutson is the 2018-2019 recipient of a Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate nursing education, received her registered nursing license in 2014, and is currently enrolled... read more.

Rose Lindsay 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Rose Lindsay, PMHNP-C is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Evelyn Barclay Scholarship. Rose, a native of New York, began nursing as an Associate Degree graduate in 1999 from Sullivan County Community College (SCCC). While working as a medical-surgical n... read more.

Tanya Lott 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Tanya Lott, winner of the Philip D. Raso Scholarship, holds a master of science in nursing degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (2003) and a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Charleston Southern University (1999). She is curr... read more.

Kelly McAllister 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Kelly Anne McAllister, BSN, RN, OCN, CBCN, is the 2018 recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds Scholarship. Kelly knew she wanted to be a nurse from a very young age and cannot remember a time when she didn’t plan to care for oncology patients. She... read more.

Colleen McGauley 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Colleen McGauley is the recipient of a “Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship” for the 2018-2019 academic year. She received her bachelors in nursing and minor in Hispanic Studies from Boston College in 2015. Colleen currently attends Boston Col... read more.

Debra Miller 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Debra Miller has been awarded the Barbara L. Tate Scholarship. While always working in the medical field, it was a dream of hers to become a nurse, however, her family always came first. Ms Miller raised five children before returning to finish her d... read more.

Megan Moyer 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: The recipient of the 2018 M. Louise Fitzpatrick Nursing Scholarship Award, Megan Moyer earned her ASN in 1999 and BSN in 2001 from Gwynedd-Mercy College and her MSN from Thomas Jefferson University in 2007 specializing as an adult acute care nurse pr... read more.

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