Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship
For Doctoral Study in Nursing Education or Administration
Eleanor Lambertsen’s concept of team nursing, proposed in 1953, revolutionized the organization of nursing and health care delivery. Dr. Lambertsen became the American Hospital Association's first director of its division of nursing in 1958. She was appointed Dean of the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1970, and that same year, became the first nurse to serve on the board of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Dr. Lambertsen passed away in 1998. The Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship was initiated that year and made permanent in 2008 when, upon her passing, Dr. Margaret Tyson made a bequest of $20,000 to NEF to complete the scholarship.
This scholarship is awarded to nursing students pursuing a doctoral degree in nursing education or administration.
Featured Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship Recipients
The nursing students who receive this scholarship are often already proven leaders in academic or nursing administration settings. These featured recipients exemplify the nursing leadership encouraged by the Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship through their innovative and collaborative projects:
Margaret Furr, DNP, RN
- Worked for over 20 years at Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as a patient care supervisor and a nursing professional development practitioner for pediatrics, behavioral health, and medical-surgical units
- Implemented a Pediatric Early Warning Score, developed a standardized pediatric code cart system, helped implement an aggression screening tool aimed at reducing staff and patient assaults, and aided in the implementation of a validated suicide screening tool
- Assumed the role of Magnet Program Manager at Sentara RMH Medical Center.
- Taught as an adjunct clinical instructor at Eastern Mennonite University
Alisha Bhimani, DNP, FNP-C, ENP
- Lived and worked in Khorog, Tajikistan for over two years to develop, test, and refine a skills-based clinical curriculum for clinical communication
- Was appointed as full-time clinical faculty at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
- Developed an ESL-based medical terminology curriculum and English training through a Train-the-Trainer program, in which 1,800 teachers were trained, and an estimated 26,000 individuals in the Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan gained knowledge
- Became Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Washington
Andrea LeClaire
- Began her nursing career in pediatric orthopedics and moved up the administrative ladder, becoming the Nursing Director of Ambulatory Orthopedics, Rehabilitation and Urology; Associate Director of Education; and then Administrative Manager of Rehabilitation in Colorado
- Became a pediatric Service Line Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, followed by Nursing Director for Adults, then Children and Adolescents, at an eating recovery center in Denver, Colorado
- Fundraised over half a million dollars in medical supplies for the interprofessional international medical mission “Nadiya” and participated in two of these medical missions to Ukraine
- Moved into academia with a part-time teaching role for baccalaureate nursing students at the College of Nursing, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center.