NLN Taps NJ League for 2020 Innovation Award

The National League for Nursing (NLN) presented the New Jersey League with a Constituent League Excellence in Innovation Award on September 25, the final day of its virtual Education Summit.

Praising the New Jersey League for expanding its grants and scholarships program, NLN CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, said, “The National League for Nursing is enormously grateful to the New Jersey League for Nursing for its leadership in proactively boosting access to nursing education at a time when higher education is increasingly out of reach for so many deserving students.” The NJLN now offers direct material support to 25 students at all levels of educational progression. Each of the 25 students is eligible to receive up to $1,000, with one advanced degree candidate who pledges to join the state’s nursing workforce eligible for a $10,000 scholarship award.

“While we face the challenges of a pandemic, along with demonstrable health care disparities reflecting the social determinants of health, innovative programming, and other initiatives to support students and faculty are truly needed,” said NLN President Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAAN. “The New Jersey League for Nursing has been a role model in this regard, helping to spread the National League for Nursing’s message of sustained, inclusive, culturally sensitive educational excellence in the preparation of the next generation of nurses to deliver outstanding patient care, advancing, in particular, the health all New Jersey residents.”

The first nursing organization to be formed in the US, the National League for Nursing was founded in 1893 as the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses. Today, the NLN provides professional development, advocacy, and testing resources for 40,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members in nursing education programs at colleges and universities, health care organizations, and agencies. To learn more about the NLN and membership benefits, visit http://www.nln.org/.