2010 RNFOO Scholarship Awards and Gala Night
RNFOO Scholarship
Winners of this year's ONIG $1000 Scholarship presented at RNFOO.
Kristine Newman
Kristine Newman is presently a PhD Nursing student at the University of Toronto working with Dr. Diane Doran. Her background is in professional practice/clinical education, rehabilitation nursing and she currently holds her CNA certification in Rehabilitation Nursing . Kristine also has interests in nursing education, knowledge translation and informatics.
Patti Tracey
Patti Tracey is a first year doctoral student at the University of Toronto. She has worked for over 20 years as a staff nurse, a utilization coordinator, a clinical nurse manager and more recently as a coodinator for the Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC) program. Through her graduate studies she became increasingly interested in wanting to conduct research which will have an influence on nurse's appreciation of information. She realizes that to truly make a difference in nursing practice; she will pursue research to better understand what is influencing nurses to appreciate and use information.
Congratulations to both! They will receive their award this Wednesday May 5th at the RNFOO Gala held at the Liberty Grand in Toronto.
There will be 2 representatives from ONIG at the Gala.
See the RNFOO Website for more details.
