News posts tagged "Doctoral Nursing Students"

NurseZone.com interviews JCNE's Darlene Curley, among others, on the need for "Boosting the Numbers of Nursing Faculty...Supporting Education...Increasing Diversity"  Read Jennifer Larson's article here.

The goal of the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program is to increase the number of doctorally prepared faculty available to teach in nursing schools nationwide, as advocated by the Institute of Medicine’s recent report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Supported by the Jonas Family Fund at the Jewish Communal Fund, the program will provide financial assistance, leadership development, and mentoring support to expand the pipeline of future nurse faculty into research-focused and practice-focused doctoral nursing programs.

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence will provide selected nursing students in doctoral programs with id="mce_marker"0,000 in financial support, to be distributed in $5,000 installments for each of the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years. The institution in which the student is enrolled will match the financial support amount and distribution schedule. In addition, schools will provide support for Scholars to attend a Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence/American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) leadership development conference in Washington, DC in fall 2013. At least one scholarship will be awarded for each state.

Click here to view 2012 Jonas Nurse Scholar Program Guidelines.

On December 9, 2010 the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-hosted national nursing, policy and health industry leaders at Hunter College in New York City to discuss the recently released Future of Nursing report and its recommendations for the nursing industry.

Program to fund students at nation’s leading institutions; partnerships with the John A. Hartford Foundation and the National League for Nursing will address specific needs in geriatrics and education.

YouTube Video - Barbara and Donald Jonas describe the Jonas Center's new Nursing Scholars Partnership with the John A. Hartford Foundation.

Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Students from Across the Country Meet in Washington, DC to Focus on Health Policy

Leading Academic Institutions to Benefit; Additional Students Build Base for Nationwide Scholars Collaborative