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 boy. In her fifteen-year nursing career she has worked as a preceptor, mentor, charge nurse, and resource nurse. A tragic event that occurred while she was working as an emergency room nurse has intensified her ability to connect with her patients on a deeply human as well as professional level. In the future she plans to motivate student nurses as a nurse educator.
(2019-2020 Winner)
Francine Bono-Neri is the recipient of the 2019 Jane Eleanor Knox Scholarship. Francine earned her BSN in 1992 from Adelphi University, after which she began her nursing career as a PICU staff nurse. Falling in... read more.
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