Student Scholarship Winners – 2022
Soyoung Kim
LPN to RN, Holy Name School of Nursing
Allysha Barbera
RN Student, St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
Amy Miller
RN Student, Joseph McCloskey School of Nursing
Jessica White
RN Student, St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
Faculty Scholarship Winners – 2022
Gabriel Beam
Conemaugh School of Nursing
Student Scholarship Winners – 2021
Faith Huffman
LPN to RN, St. Mary’s School of Nursing
Stephanie Griffith
St. Mary’s School of Nursing
Courtney Ewing
St. Mary’s School of Nursing
Emily Botta
Holy Name Medical Center Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing
Faculty Scholarship Winners – 2021
Marie O’Donnell
Trinitas School of Nursing
Student Scholarship Winners – 2020
Matthew Abelowitz
St. Francis School of Nursing
Matthew Abelowitz is a senior year nursing student at the Saint Francis Medical Center School of Nursing in Trenton, NJ. He is also vice president of the school’s Student Nurses Association. He is an Eagle Scout and a member of the
Prospect Heights Volunteer Fire Company. Within the department he is one of the top responders as well as a member of multiple committees. After graduation he will enter a career in pediatric emergency nursing and plans to continue
his education towards a Masters degree.
Brooke Marvin
St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
Zhaleh Wolf
Holy Name Medical Center Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing
Zhaleh Wolf 26 years old first year nursing student, married for 3 years. My ultimate goal is to become a pediatric nurse practitioner and eventually open up my own daycare /clinic. I am currently working as a nursing assistant
working at a children’s hospital. God is the head of my life and with him I know that I can only go higher.
Maegan Stedman
LPN to RN, St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
I have wanted to be a nurse for as long as I can remember. It started my senior year of high school, when I enrolled in a Certified Nurses Assistant class. This led me to continue on to become a Licensed Practical Nurse and to one
day soon fulfill my dream of becoming a Registered Nurse.
In my nearly fourteen years in healthcare I have had the opportunity to work in several different specialties and each came with its own set of obstacles, but I wouldn’t take back any of my experiences. My experiences are what have
gotten me here today, and what in my opinion will make me a great Registered Nurse.
Since finishing my CNA in high school, I completed LPN school, earned an associate degree in Humanities, as well as a Bachelors of Science in Community Health. I gravitated towards community health, because I would love to be a
health educator.
There will be good and bad days in any profession, but in nursing it’s the bad that we learn from, and that makes us stronger; and the good that keeps us coming back for more. I am dedicated to my profession and to my patients, the
selfless work that nurses do on a daily basis often goes unrecognized, but that’s not why we do it. We do our jobs because we know we are making a difference in the lives of our patients.
This is what I am here to offer to both the profession of nursing and my patients alike. I am a shoulder to lean on, a hand to hold, an ear to lend, and a voice to advocate for their wellbeing. I am here to ease worry and pain,
because knowing that the person caring for you, does actually care, means a great deal to both patients and their families.
In July I started the accelerated associates degree program at St Joseph’s College of Nursing. While it has been both difficult and rewarding, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. I can not wait to be Maegen Stedman, RN, and
thanks in part to the National Coalition of Hospital Associated Schools of Nursing for 2020, I can be.
Faculty Scholarship Winners – 2020
Sharon Gallo
Joseph McCluskey School of Nursing
Asri Byll
St. Francis School of Nursing
Asri Byll is a freshman course coordinator at St. Francis Medical Center School of Nursing who facilitates students learning and transition from nursing school into career nurses. After working as an informaticist, Psych nurse,
med-surg oncology, senior educator, and adjunct instructor, Asri became interested in educating nursing students to help increase the growing nursing workforce. Asri understands the importance of using evidence-based practice and
advanced degree to help educate students and communicate the understanding of nursing concepts to them.
Asri has experience in item writing and content review, which includes working with NCSBN to develop standardized sample questions that are used to prepare graduate students for the NCLEX exam. He also works with Lippincott as
clinical editor and subject matter expert to review and update nursing competency and certification material.
Asri holds an MSN degree and is currently working diligently to complete DNP degree at Grand Canyon University with expected graduation date of May 2020.
Student Scholarship Winners – 2019
Elizabeth Easterday
Nursing Student, Trinity Health System School of Nursing
Steubenville, OH
Kimberly Nelson
St. Mary’s School of Nursing
Huntington, WV
Mary Stroud
St. Mary’s School of Nursing
Huntington, WV
Faculty Scholarship Winner – 2019
Kim Damron, MSN, RN
St. Mary’s School of Nursing, Huntington, WV