Recipients of A Nurse I Am Scholarship Recipients

Cherokee Uniforms congratulates the 10 winners of the 2010 Cherokee A Nurse I Am Scholarship Program!

Scholarship recipients each receive $2,000 toward defraying the cost of their nursing education.

The winners of the 2010 scholarship are Aleesha Tremper (Southern Adventist University - Collegedale, Tenn.), Annie Dien (Saddleback College – Mission Viejo, Calif.), Cynthia Estrada (Los Angeles County School of Nursing and Allied Health – Los Angeles, Calif.), Frank Mataska (Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing – Baltimore, Md.), Jane Schulteis (Concordia University – Mequon, Wis.), Joelle Selk (University of Montana – Helena, Mont.), Kiarah Perkins (University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Nursing - Scottsbluff, Neb.), Menglin Shen (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing – Philadelphia, Penn.), Richard Malo (DeSales University – Center Valley, Penn.) and Wendy Meyers (Ellis School of Nursing - Schenectady, N.Y.).

Selection was based on an essay written in response to the inspirational nurses' film, "A Nurse I Am." Entrants were asked to pick two nurses from the film and tell how they fulfilled the needs of the patients they cared for using the metaparadigm concepts of nursing: person, health, environment and nursing. Then they were asked to compare or contrast how these 2 nurses use these concepts to the way they plan to use them in their practice as a nurse.

Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant for the production of "A Nurse I Am," a film for nurses and nursing students, out of concern over the number of nurses leaving the profession within the first few years of practice. The film presents nurses in real-life situations where they interact with real patients, students and colleagues, highlighting key points for a successful nursing career. More than 300 schools of nursing are showing the film to nearly 35,000 students annually as part of their nursing curricula.

The 2010 Winners

The 2009 Winners

The 2008 Winners

The 2007 Winners