Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship
For Exceptional Doctoral Nursing Students
In 1912, the Isabel Hampton Robb Fund for nursing students was established by her colleagues in memoriam and became Nurses Educational Funds (NEF) in 1954. Hampton Robb was a visionary leader of modern American nursing: an American nurse theorist, author, and nursing school administrator. Hampton was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She wrote several influential textbooks and helped to found the organizations that became known as the National League for Nursing, the International Council of Nurses, and the American Nurses Association.
Each year, the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship is awarded to the doctoral degree applicant who receives the highest total evaluation score from the nurse leaders who review all of the scholarship applications.
Featured Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship RecipientsFor Exceptional Doctoral Nursing Students
This scholarship has been awarded for over 100 years. As NEF scholarships grew in size and number, the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship became the pinnacle achievement, awarded to the highest-rated doctoral applicant. These featured scholarship recipients have exhibited excellence in nursing practice, education, and research, as personified by Ms. Hampton Robb:
Elizabeth Myrick, MSN, AGPCNP-C, CANS
- Worked as a nurse technician and a registered nurse at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, caring for patients in cardiac telemetry, medical-surgical, and intensive care settings before becoming a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
- Is currently the owner and Medical Director of Bellora Medical Aesthetics in Seattle
- Is a National Institutes of Health T32 Predoctoral Fellow in Omics and Implementation Science, developing the skills necessary to conduct rigorous research that informs practice and policy
- Serves as a preceptor and mentor for nursing students and remains actively involved in advancing education and professional development within nursing and aesthetic medicine
Yoonjae Lee, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
- Has nearly a decade of clinical experience as an inpatient rehabilitation nurse in both South Korea and the U.S., caring for patients with complex pain conditions
- Led a quality improvement project at Johns Hopkins as part of her DNP scholarly project, which demonstrated significant improvements in pain self-efficacy and patient satisfaction among orthopedic postsurgical patients through a targeted video-based educational intervention
- Focusing her dissertation at Penn Nursing on preventing persistent opioid use and subsequent problematic opioid use after surgery with machine learning and natural language processing methods
- Received awards from the Global Korean Nursing Foundation, Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association, Eastern Nursing Research Society, Sigma Theta Tau, the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, and the United States Association for the Study of Pain
Claire Petchler, PhD, DNP
- Is a nurse clinician and researcher dedicated to improving communication pathways between family caregivers and palliative care patients from socially disadvantaged backgrounds
- Worked in a variety of inpatient clinical settings, including a gastrointestinal-hepatology medical unit, the medical intensive care unit, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory
- Utilized data from the National Study of Caregiving to understand communication patterns among family caregivers and palliative care patients, with a plan to develop communication intervention recommendations based on the results of her research
- Is currently an Advanced Practice Provider Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center