New Hampshire Nursing News - December 2020

Page 8 • New Hampshire Nursing News December 2020, January, February 2021
2020 Healthy Nurse Scholarships Awarded
described a scenario of integrity by reminders of being kind and nonjudgmental, and
to not jump to conclusions by considering all possibilities. Carla shared that a driving
factor for completing her practice doctorate is a strive toward excellence.
Carol Allen EdD MSN RN is the Vice Chair of the Commission on Nursing Practice,
the volunteer team that designed the Healthy Nurse Scholarship program and
manages the Healthy Nurse Fund Raising Event.
Stephanie Gray, Healthy Nurse
Certification Scholarship Winner
By Carol Allen
The Third Annual NHNA Healthy Nurse Scholarship event was held Thursday,
September 10, 2020 using a virtual platform. The scholarships were developed in
appreciation of one of the core American Nurses Association values, commitment to
life-long learning. They are designed to support nurses who wish to improve their
nursing practice through higher education and specialty certification. 2020 provided
three scholarship awards, a Certification Scholarship, a RN-BSN Scholarship, and a
Graduate Scholarship.
Applicants for the Certification Scholarship were asked to share why certification was
important to them and how the certification would impact nursing practice. A 2020
Certification Scholarship, for $250.00, was awarded to Stephanie Gray. Stephanie
is pursuing certification as a Wound Care Nurse. Certification would acknowledge
attainment of the skills and knowledge to function as a wound care professional
and the ability to apply national wound management strategies to improve patient
outcomes.
RN-BSN Scholarship applicants were asked to share how they exemplify one of
NHNA’s core values and how achieving their BSN will help them to exemplify an
additional core value. The 2020 RN-BSN Scholarship for $750.00, was awarded to
Christina Dunn. In Christina’s application, she described how she exemplifies the core
values of collaboration, respect, and professionalism in her role as a school nurse. She
wrote of challenges related to COVID-19 and described applications of collaboration,
compassion, and respect in order to address school re-entry plans and policies.
Graduate Scholarship applicants were asked to share examples of how they
exemplify NHNA’s core values in nursing practice and describe how achieving their
graduate degree would assist them in meeting professional goals and contribute
to the advancement of the nursing profession. The 2020 Graduate Scholarship,
in the amount of $750.00, went to Carla Smith. Carla is working on a Doctorate of
Health Sciences in Global Public Health. She identified several of the core values
and provided examples from her experiences that exemplified these core values.
She described collaboration related to the role of Volunteer Coordinator for the NH
COVID Alliance Senior Support Team. She described an activity used with student
nurses that fosters respect among disciplines. And, among other examples, she
Christina Dunn, Healthy Nurse RN to
BSN Scholarship Winner
Carla Smith, Healthy Nurse Graduate
Scholarship Winner
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Sheila Evjy
Margaret Emmons
Sheila A. (O’Donnell) Evjy and Margaret Emmons
RN ARNP have been appointed to the Board of
Trustees of St. Anslem College. Evjy is a 1974
graduate of the nursing program and former vice
president of nursing at Elliot Hospital, where she
spent her entire nursing career. In addition she
received a MSN from Boston University, and a
MEd in Counseling from the University of New
Hampshire. In 2019 Evjy received an honorary
degree from Saint Anselm. Evjy is also on the
Board of the VNA of Manchester and Southern
New Hampshire.
Emmons is an acute care nurse practitioner in
cardiology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center and an assistant professor of medicine
at Dartmouth College. She obtained her BSN
from St. Anslem’s in 1975 and a MSN from
the University of Massachusetts Worcester,
Worcester, MA, in 2005.