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Donna Westmoreland 2013-2014 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: A student at Frontier Nursing University, in Hyden, Kentucky, Donna Westmoreland, was awarded the Lucy Perry Scholarship. Ms. Westmoreland’s goal is to become a family nurse practitioner. She began her nursing career in critical care but moved on to... read more.

Nancy Wise 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Nancy Wise, a doctoral student at Villanova University in Radnor Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first student to be awarded the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Nancy’s primary area of interest is the number of pregnant ado... read more.

Angela Alston 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Angela Alston, Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc./Ada Mutch/NEF scholarship winner, is a North Carolina native currently pursuing her Doctoral degree at Ohio State University, where she also earned bo... read more.

Priscilla Hall 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Priscilla Hall, winner of the Judith Whittaker scholarship, is pursuing her doctorate at Emery University where her area of interest is the stress response of women during labor, especially as it relates to the experiences of coping. As a nurse-midwi... read more.

Katharine Haxall 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Katharine Haxall is using her Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc./Ada Mutch/NEF scholarship to pursue a BS/MS degree at Columbia University. Prior to pursuing the role of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner,... read more.

Amity Heinbuck 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Amity Heinbuck, NEF awardee, started her nursing career in 2007 after working as a medical Laboratory Technician for 8 years. After receiving her Associate Degree of Nursing she worked as a labor and delivery nurse, a career she loves. She is continu... read more.

Tristen Hensen 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Tristen Hensen is using her NEF scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Nursing Administration and Management from Norwich University. During the past 3 years she has worked on an Orthopedic/Trauma/Plastics medical-surgical floor and for 2 of those years... read more.

Sirena Hughes 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Sirena Hughes, NSNA winner, is currently enrolled in the Nurse Anesthesia program at Villanova University. After getting her BSN she worked in a Pediatrics Intensive Care unit at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It was here that she was inspired to... read more.

Sheryl Leary 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Sheryl Leary, Isabel Hampton Robb scholarship winner, is pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of San Diego while working as a clinical nurse specialist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. As a military spouse she has moved... read more.

Helen Masters 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Helen Masters, LILLIAN HIEMENZ award winner, worked as a Med/Surg nurse at Crittenden Regional Hospital but came to realize that her passion is oncology and the reason she became a nurse in the first place. She now works weekends providing direct pat... read more.

Mark McGraw 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Mark McGraw, winner of the MIRIAM POWELL scholarship, has been interested in pursuing a career as a nurse anesthetist since he got his BSN from the University of Delaware. After college he entered the critical care nurse internship program at Christi... read more.

Laura Mood 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Laura Mood who won the Margaret Tyson scholarship, has been a registered nurse for 17 years working in a peri-operative setting in multiple capacities. After earning her MSN from the University of Michigan she went on to teach as a full time instruct... read more.

Shaini Moonjeli 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Shaini Moonjeli, winner of the A.J.N. SCHOLARSHIP, began her career as a staff nurse in 1994 in a rural hospital in India. Currently she is working as an Advanced Nurse Clinician in the Coronary Care Unit at Emory University Hospital and studying in... read more.

Njoki Ng'Anga 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Njoki Ng’anga is using her Elizabeth Carnegie scholarship towards a PhD degree at Columbia University. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Nursing’s Center for Children and Families. She obtained her MSc in Health Systems from the Lond... read more.

Tara O'Brien 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Tara O'Brien is a second time winner of an NEF scholarship (this time the Evelyn Barclay award) as she continues working toward her PhD at the Medical University of South Carolina where her research topic is obesity among Appalachian women. Her futur... read more.

Alisa Pascale 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Alisa Pascale, winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen award, is a certified women’s health practitioner who spent the first 2 years of her NP career living and working in Cuba, New Mexico, with the Navajo Native Americans. Today she is practicing at Vincen... read more.

Kathryn Phillips 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Kathryn Phillips, the Lucy Perry scholarship winner, originally started her career in the business field after obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. After working a while in the business sector she took a position in long term c... read more.

Rafael Jose Ramos 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Rafael Jose Ramos is using his NEF scholarship award as a graduate student of Nursing Anesthesia at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He worked for 3 years at a Cardio-thoracic Intensive Care Unit at Stanford Hospitals in California before d... read more.

Jana Ryan 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Jana Ryan, ISABEL McISAAC Scholarship, is completing her work toward an MSN at St. Louis University in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track and plans to test for her ANCC certification in January. For the last 8 years she has wor... read more.

Faresha Sims 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Faresha Sims, winner of the ESTELLE OSBORNE scholarship, is a native Mississippian who is presently attending Virginia Commonwealth University Nurse Anesthesia Program. After completing her first year of advance practice study in the field of nurse a... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Jennifer Roye

(2021-2022 Winner)

Jennifer Roye, MSN, RN, CHSE, CNE is the 2021 recipient of the NEF M. Louise Fitzpatrick Scholarship. She holds an MSN from the University of Texas at Arlington and is currently obtaining an EdD in Instructiona... read more.

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