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 initial position as a registered nurse was in a medical -surgical intensive care unit in 1997 and he has been a critical care nurse for seventeen years. He is now in graduate school at Villanova University pursuing nurse anesthesia training. He volunteers on the emergency medical response team at his church and he and his wife are raising two very energetic boys - ages 6 and 8.
(2019-2020 Winner)
Adaya Kirk Bayless is the recipient of the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. She graduated from her undergraduate program at the University of Tennessee College of Nursing as the top collegiate scholar with her Bache... read more.
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