Grants
Nursing Foundation to Award $48,000 in Scholarships Despite Tough Economy
WHAT:
Press Conference for the Mississippi Nurses Foundation to award $48,000 in stipends/scholarships to deserving registered nurses and nursing students. Stipend funds were raised through the State of Mississippi Nurses Car Tag Program-Nurses Touch Lives and awarded to registered nurses and nursing students enrolled in an accredited Associate, Baccalaureate, Masters or Doctoral Nursing Program in Mississippi. Eight applicants, out of 38, will receive the scholarship during the ceremony.
WHO:
Hosted by the Mississippi Nurses Foundation
WHEN AND WHERE:
For more information, contact:
Hand Washing Program
Health Management Associates-Mississippi Division
Funds Hand Washing Project for 2009-10
The Mississippi Nurses Foundation was awarded $25,000 from Health Management Associates (HMA)-Mississippi Division to sponsor a statewide High Five hand washing program for the 2009-10 school year.
Health Management Associates $25,000 sponsorship will allow the MS Nurses Foundation to provide hand washing supplies and materials to elementary schools throughout the state.
The goals of the High Five Hand Washing Program are as follows:
1. Teach hand washing to children in order for them to be healthier and develop a lifelong health habit;
2. Reduce the number of absentees for the school, which increases funding for the school;
3. Collect data that will show a significant reduction of absentees related to communicable illness
The following school nurses will implement the Hand Washing Program in Mississippi Elementary Schools for 2009-2010:
- Jennifer Elliott, RN-Bogue Chitto School, Bogue Chitto, MS
- Cathy Pippin, RN-East Flora Elementary/Jr. High Flora, MS
- Michelle Ellison, RN-Madison Station Elementary, Madison, MS
- Tami Armstrong, RN-Della Davidson Elementary, Oxford, MS
- Cyndee Nash, RN-Redwood Elementary,Vicksburg, MS
- Catherine Jobe, RN-Beachwood Elementary, Vicksburg, MS
- Renee Richardson, RN-Enterprise Attendance Center, Brookhaven, MS
- Susan Sharpe, RN-Harrison County School, Ocean Springs, MS
- Millie Wright, RN-Hayes Cooper Center, Cleveland, MS
- Jennifer Brents, RN-Houlka Attendance Center, Houlka, MS
- Robin Hull, RN-Northeast Elementary, Meridian, MS
- Renee Gurley, RN-Oxford Elementary, Oxford, MS
- Millie Renfroe, RN-Pearl Upper Elementary, Pearl, MS
- Kathy Jones, RN-Ruleville Central Elementary, Ruleville, MS
- Faye Welch, RN-Winona Elementary, Winona, MS
- Jennifer Brents, RN-Houlka Attendance Center, Houlka, MS
- Becky Beasley,RN-New Augusta Elementary, New Augusta, MS
- Rebecca Clarke, RN-Jefferson Middle School, Columbia, MS
- Lynette Kilpatrick, RN, Neshoba Central Elementary, Philadelphia, MS
- Darlene Moore, RN, Issac T. Montgomery Elementary, Mound Bayou
The Mississippi Nurses Foundation will implement additional handwashing programs starting in August 2010. If you would like information regarding this project, please call (601) 898-0850.
Grants
The Mississippi Nurses Foundation has been awarded two one year grants 2010-2011
The Mississippi State Department of Health-Office of Rural Health
The Mississippi State Department of Health Office of Rural Health awarded a $10,000 grant to the Mississippi Nurses Foundation. The project, “Rural Health Nurse Recruitment” will focus on developing activities to increase the number of health care professionals practicing in rural commuities. The program will include presentations to inform nursing students, hospital nursing staff and high school students about nursing career ladders and education/training incentive programs (loan repayment and scholarships) with a focus on encouraging careers in rural areas. The project will be coordinated by a nurse practitioner or a graduate level nursing student.
The Mississippi State Department of Health-Office of Tobacco Control
The Mississippi State Department of Health Office of Tobacco Control awarded a $99,683 grant to the Mississippi Nurses Foundation to collaborate with Schools of Nursing to survey nursing students on their preception and general belief of tobacco use and tobacco cessation and the need for a comprehensive statewide smoke-free law.
The Foundation will develop activities to educate nursing students enrolled in Mississippi Schools of Nursing about tobacco prevention and control to ensure they are empowered to educate and influence their future patients.
To learn more about the Mississippi Nurses Foundation grants and projects, please call 601.898.0850.