FAIRFIELD, CT — Ten Sacred Heart University students in the family nurse practitioner (FNP) program have earned the Paul L. Jones Scholarship, based on merit and need.
The students received $2,250 each to support their study for careers as primary care providers with a clinical doctorate in nursing. The BSN to DNP program with an FNP specialty is three years full time or four years part time
“The scholarship will help prepare an educated nurse workforce that will influence better patient outcomes at multiple levels of health care,” said Julie Stewart, director of the FNP program. “This year the winning students are in the family nurse practitioner program, which will culminate in a clinical doctorate (Doctor of Nursing Practice).”
Family nurse practitioners provide a wide range of health care services to individuals and families in various clinical settings, Stewart said. “They focus on health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan. They are educated to diagnose and develop treatment plans for acute and chronic diseases. With an advanced doctoral degree, graduates are well prepared to lead efforts to improve patient outcomes and population health at all levels of health care,” she said.
The scholarship helps students financially with tuition and “earns them distinction of qualifying for the prestigious scholarship,” said Stewart.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn., and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 8,500 students attend the University’s five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; Nursing; the Jack Welch College of Business; and the Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides, Best 382 Colleges–2018 Edition, “Best in the Northeast” and Best 267 Business Schools–2018 Edition. It also placed SHU on its lists for “Best College Theater” and “Most Engaged in Community Service,” each of which comprises only 20 U.S. schools. U.S.News & World Report ranks SHU in its Best Colleges 2018 guidebook and calls SHU the fourth “Most Innovative School” in the North. The Chronicle of Higher Education also names SHU one of the fastest-growing Roman Catholic universities in its 2016 almanac. Sacred Heart fields 32 Division I athletic teams and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu