Congratulations to the latest graduate students to receive the Deborah E. Trautman Future Nurse Leader Scholarship. With funding provided by Liaison International, AACN’s partner in NursingCAS, the scholarship recipients include Catherine Harpst, a PhD student from University of Arizona, and Sintya Sintya, a DNP student from Loma Linda University.
The Foundation for Academic Nursing, the philanthropic arm of AACN, is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of the AACN Faculty Scholars Grant. The nurse educators to receive funding this year include Dr. Laura Klenke-Borgmann from the University of Kansas for a project titled Utilizing a Scaffolded, Multi-Modal Simulation Approach for Transition to Practice, and the team of Dr. Kelly Powers and Dr. Katherine Shue-McGuffin from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for their project titled Transition to Community Practice Intraprofessional Simulation: Building Collaborative Competencies for Community-Based Care.
AACN and Bio-Oil® are pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarship program designed to support careers in labor and delivery nursing. Open to students enrolled in baccalaureate nursing programs at AACN member schools, the Bio-Oil® Labor of Love Scholarship will provide one-time $5,000 awards to 10 nursing students during the 2024-2025 academic year.
The Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA) announced a new grant to support innovative collaborations among students in PhD and DNP programs. The GNSA will award a $2,000 grant to support a scholarly initiative focused on generating new knowledge and translating research into practice. Grant recipients will provide exemplars for how future doctoral students can collaborate in ways that advance nursing science and practice.
AACN is pleased to announce that Uniform Advantage, a leading multi-channel retailer of medical scrubs and uniforms, has committed $30,000 to supporting a scholarship program open to graduate nursing students attending AACN member schools.
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