Scholars

2010s Cycles

Renee Clark 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Renee Clark, awarded a Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF) Scholarship, is pursuing her masters in nursing (MSN) in nurse midwifery and women’s health at Frontier Nursing University. A nurse for nine years, she has provided nursing care in the Unite... read more.

Amanda Combs 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Amanda Combs, one of the 2014 - 2015 NEF Scholarship winners is pursuing her MSN degree at the University of Arkansas in the Medical Science College of Nursing. She plans to use her scholarship to further her plans to be an adult gerontology nurse pr... read more.

Hayley Eichlin 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Hayley Eichlin, NEF Scholarship award winner, developed an early interest in nursing after hearing a family friend talk about her experiences as a labor and delivery nurse. Hayley earned her BSN at Drexel University and went to work in the neonatal/i... read more.

Kelli Hardin 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kelli Hardin, a NEF Scholarship recipient, received her bachelor of nursing degree (BSN) from Kennesaw State University, Georgia. Following her graduation she worked as a registered nurse in the emergency department in a rural setting. Despite loving... read more.

Whitney Harris 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Whitney Harris, winner of the Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship, is a Mattel Children’s Center Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse. A master’s degree candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, she is pursuing a dual degree as a pediatric cli... read more.

Nicole Hockenberry 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Nicole Hockenberry, a NEF Scholarship winner, decided upon her chosen career path in high school. After graduating from a local community college she went on to earn her BSN degree in nursing from Colorado State University in Pueblo, Colorado. While... read more.

Elizabeth Hughett 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Elizabeth Hughett, winner of an NEF Scholarship, knew from age three that she wanted to be a nurse. While studying at St. Louis University on scholarship, she fell in love with cardiovascular and critical care nursing and knew she wanted, one day, to... read more.

Nathan Levitt 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Nathan Levitt, who was awarded an NEF Scholarship, is pursuing his graduate studies in the State University of New York Family Nurse Practitioner Program at SUNY Downstate College of Nursing. He plans to dedicate his career to working in the lesbian,... read more.

Ralph Mangusan 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Ralph Mangusan, winner of a NEF Scholarship, began his nursing career in the Philippines before moving to the United States in 2006. Certified in gerontological nursing, medical surgical nursing, progressive care, and wound care, he started his state... read more.

Diana Minor 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Diana Minor who won an NEF Scholarship, is pursuing her goal to become an acute care nurse practitioner at Virginia Commonwealth University while she works full time in a medical surgical trauma intensive care unit and raises a lively three-year old... read more.

Rachel Moscicki 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Rachel Moscicki, winner of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. / J. MargaretAda Mutch Scholarship, is pursuing a masters of public health and masters of nursing as a adult-geriatric nurse practitio... read more.

Tenzin Nangkyi 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Tenzin Nangkyi who won the Isabel Mc Isaac Scholarship, is a clinical liaison nurse for a non-profit hospice in Washington, D.C. while she is pursuing her masters of nursing and masters in business administration, MSN/MBA, at Johns Hopkins University... read more.

Jennifer Poliwka 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jennifer Poliwka, winner of the Edith Prichard Scholarship, is pursuing a masters of science in public health nursing at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked in a number of settings that spurred her interest in public health including: Uganda whe... read more.

Carly Turner 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Carly Turner who won an NEF Scholarship, began college focused on a career in graphic design but in her junior year changed her major and went on to earn a BSN degree. Her first job was in the neurological ICU at Johns Hopkins and later as “travel” n... read more.

Kenneth Zeyak 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kenneth Zeyak, NEF Scholarship winner, began his career in healthcare as a volunteer emergency medical technician with his local community ambulance service. In 1992 he graduated from St. Joseph Hospital Paramedic Institute in Lancaster, Pa. His init... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Larissa Gregory

(2023-2024 Winner)

Larissa Gregory, the recipient of the Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship is so thankful for the opportunity to receive this scholarship. She began her nursing education at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sch... read more.

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