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Congratulations to Jean Marie Digges wbo is the recipient of the Elaine Gelman Scholarship given through competitive process and awarded today at the NAPNAP conference. This NAPNAP Foundation award recognizes NP students who participate in a PNP program and have interest in health policy or advocacy.
Please congratulate Jean Marie wben you see her!
**The Jane Delano Society will award two $1,000 scholarships in May to undergraduate nursing students who have contributed volunteer service to Red Cross units. The American Red Cross Jane Delano Society Scholarship Fund was established in 2001 to advance nursing as a career option and to promote the involvement of young nurses in the Red Cross. The Society will award its third and fourth Norman Augustine $1,000 scholarships in May to two nursing students who have contributed volunteer service to a Red Cross unit within the past 5 years. Nominations are due by Thursday, April 19, 2007. For complete details, see this website.
**The deadline for the Kaiser Permanente College to Caring (C2C) Nursing Scholarship Program has been extended to April 1, 2007. The C2C program provides scholarships to Hispanic students who are juniors or seniors in college pursuing a bachelors degree in nursing. Students who are selected will receive a scholarship for $8,000 each year they attend nursing school. C2C Scholars will also receive a $2,000 stipend for the summer work study program at Kaiser Permanente. For complete details including eligibility requirements and required documentation, see this website. For more information about this program, contact Auri Duarte at 202-296-5400 or aduarte@hispanicfund.org.
According to Michala Smith, from the VCU View:
Cadet Joanna Klein, a senior in Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Nursing, has been chosen to receive the George C. Marshall Leadership Award, which is presented to the top Army ROTC cadets in the nation.
The time is nearly here to cut the ribbon and dedicate our new 70,000 square foot state-of- the-science School of Nursing Building. We invite you to come and celebrate with us! The festivities will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday April 27th - rain or shine. Join us again on Saturday April 28th for Open House (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and tour the building at your leisure.
We will cut the ribbon only once and you don’t want to miss it!
Nationally
The U.S. will need more than 1.2 million new and replacement RNs by 2014. (http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art5full.pdf">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2005 Monthly Labor Review)
In Virginia
By 2020, Virginia is projected to have only 47,000 fulltime-equivalent RNs – a shortage of 22,600 nurses. Without increases in enrollments in nursing education programs, one in three patients will not have a nurse to care for them. (Condition of Nursing and Nursing Education in the Commonwealth, State Council for Higher Education for Virginia, January 2004)
Download fact sheet.