Three students at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing have won Nurses Educational Funds scholarships for 2024–25.
Adedeji Ademola and Jennifer Bottoms-Robb, both master’s students, and Nathan Levitt, a PhD student, earned the awards or scholarships, which go directly to the students to offset the costs of their education. Scholarship awards are given to students studying Nursing advanced clinical practice, education, research, administration, and health policy.
Ademola, a student in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, is furthering his specialization to serve veterans and civilians suffering from PTSD and substance abuse.
Bottoms-Robb, a single mother who works part-time and attends school full-time, is studying to obtain her master’s degree and become a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. With a long career as a NICU nurse, Bottoms-Robb would like to help individuals in the Black community, who have been underserved for many years, especially NICU parents working through the mental-health challenges of an extended hospital stay with a critically ill child.
Levitt, the director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and Gender Justice Learning at Yale University School of Nursing, hopes to develop a transgender healthcare theory for Nursing practice, research, and scholarship. He is also Hunter’s first Jonas Scholar.
Nurses Educational Funds, a nonprofit organization established in 1912 by nurses for nurses, promotes leadership and health equity through scholarship support for professional nurses seeking master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing education, practice, service, and research.
The next NEF scholarship online application closes on February 3, 2025.
