Emily McKay
Dr. Helen K. Mussallem Award When I became a nurse I was looking for an exciting and dynamic way to learn about and practice medicine. After starting school I quickly realized that my passion is increasing the accessibility and quality of women’s healthcare services through research and education. I started my nursing career in Childbirth […]
Andrée-Ann Rivard
Glenna Roswell Award In my life, I had several experiences with healthcare institutions for a variety of personal reasons. There, I met caring and generous people, but above all, competent health professionals who exemplified technical and interpersonal skills. Through them, I discovered the nursing profession and I developed a desire to join their ranks. I […]
Kathy Nguyen
Ginette Lemire Rodger Award I was always motivated by making a difference in people’s lives by helping them through caring. Someone even asked me if I was sure nursing was what I truly wanted to do, and I’m glad to show years later I’m still working as a nurse clinician. The further I advanced through […]
Ashley Ahuja
Extendicare Nurse Practitioner Scholarship Hospitals are scary places for almost everyone and I experienced this as a family member was being cared for in the hospital. I saw how caring the nursing staff were and how they were able to put my family at ease. I chose to become a nurse to care for my […]
Michael Jurjevich
Dr. Dorothy J. Kergin Fellowship Award I have always had an innate desire to help people and I knew that my future life endeavours had to involve that in some regard. When I was a teenager, I toyed with different ideas from becoming a doctor to a lawyer, but nothing felt completely right. None of […]
Jillian Ryan
CNF Indigenous Award My name is Jillian Ryan and I am from Corner Brook, NL. I am a part-time Master of Science of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner option) student at Memorial University. I have been a Registered Nurse for five years; I graduated from the Western Regional School of nursing in my hometown in 2017. At […]
Natania Abebe
CNF COVID-19 Person of Colour Award In 2017, I graduated from nursing school and became the first nurse in my family. As a first-generation African immigrant, my desire to pursue nursing was fostered by an ethos of compassion and wanting to improve structural and social health inequities that lead to poorer health outcomes for marginalized […]
Meaghan Hart
Eleanor Jean Martin Award My passion for nursing was slowly ignited by observing my father’s career throughout my childhood and adolescent life. In high school, I remember being scared that I would enter a career path and be unsatisfied, wasting my time and money in the process. These fears were mostly quelled after learning about […]
Marie-Claude Simpson
Dr. Helen Preston Glass Award I am a graduate student at the University of Manitoba, College of Nursing, and a college professor at the Université de Saint-Boniface, School of Nursing and Health Studies. I am constantly seeking new opportunities and challenges in my personal and professional life; thus, I foresee a future of lifelong learning. […]
Daniel da Costa
Dr. Dorothy J. Kergin Award My trajectory towards nursing has manifested itself throughout my life. From a very young age, I have continuously developed a profound passion for healthcare. Having worked in a pediatric family medicine clinic for many years throughout my undergraduate degree in anatomy & cell biology at McGill University, I was exposed […]