ADVISORY/Kaiser Permanente to Award $155,500 to Southern California Nursing Students.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (June June: see month. 17) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHEN: Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 5:45-7:15 p.m.
WHERE: 393 East Walnut Street, (at Los Robles) Pasadena, CA
Kaiser Permanente Walnut Center headquarters (outdoor atrium)
WHO: 85 Recipients from 34 Southern California Colleges, and
Deloras Jones, RN(a), will be available for interviews
WHAT: Scholarships will be awarded in the following categories:
-- Nursing as a Second Career
-- Underrepresented Groups in Nursing
-- Academic Excellence (3.9+ GPA)
-- Graduate Studies
-- Kaiser Permanente Clinical Affiliation Students
-- Excellence in Bachelor's Degree Nursing
Many of the students and their families will be available for interview at the annual June 17 awards ceremony, along with nursing faculty from local colleges and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. leaders. This year, Kaiser Permanente received 448 applications and awarded 164 scholarships totaling $316,000 throughout California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). . This brings the grand total for the Deloras Jones RN Scholarship Program to over $2.8 million awarded to more than 2,000 students since it was established in 1989. As one of the largest employers of nurses in California, Kaiser Permanente's support to build California's nursing workforce is expected to exceed $4 million annually for Nursing Pathways, career ladder The Career ladder is a metaphor or buzzword used to denote vertical job promotion. In business and human resources management, the ladder typically describes the progression from entry level positions to higher levels of pay, skill, responsibility, or authority. programs, nursing scholarships, grants to colleges, and forgivable for·give v. for·gave , for·giv·en , for·giv·ing, for·gives v.tr. 1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon. 2. To renounce anger or resentment against. 3. loans. (a) Deloras Jones retired as Kaiser Permanente's Director of Divisional Nursing Services for California in 2000, completing a 34-year career dedicated to professional nursing and leadership. |
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