All undergraduate students who have been admitted to the Nursing major are considered for nursing scholarships. The Financial Aid office provides the Ellmer School of Nursing with the names of students who are eligible for each scholarship. Students are encouraged to have an active FAFSA to be considered for need-based scholarships. Â
The TOWN foundation scholarship requires a separate application. Information and deadlines will be emailed to pre-licensure students as part of their admission letter.
Nursing Scholarships
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
- Must be full-time student with junior status who has been accepted into the Ellmer School of Nursing
- Must have an overall cumulative 3.5 GPA
- Must have successfully completed all sophomore-level nursing courses
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria.
If you are currently pursuing a career in the healthcare field, and attending a college of university or enrolled in an accredited program of study, you may be eligible for a Chesapeake General Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship. The Auxiliary is awarding $1,000 scholarships.
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
The scholarship will be awarded annually to one or more students using the following criteria:
- Full time Junior or Senior
- Admitted into the Â鶹´«Ã½ Undergraduate Nursing program
- A demonstrated financial need (established by the Office of Financial Aid)
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
- Full-time Nursing Student
- Junior/Senior
- Minimum GPA of 3.0
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
- Full-time Nursing Student
- Junior/Senior
- Demonstrate financial need
- This scholarship is awarded to selected junior and senior students.
- The Office of Financial Aid identifies students meeting selection criteria and consults with nursing.
- The nursing admissions committee selects the recipients during the summer prior to their junior year.
- The selections are sent back to the university financial aid office who informs the selected recipients.
Inspiration
Marilyn Frakes Quinn was born Marilyn Jean Frakes on Halloween in 1937. Her mother died of asthma when she was a small child, and her father gave her over to her older sister to raise. She grew into a young woman in Southern Missouri, living in a small shack without electricity or running water until she completed high school, married, and in 1954 moved to Buckroe Beach in Hampton, Va., as the wife of a young Airman. She moved back to Missouri and had three sons, but by 1970 was divorced. Soon after the divorce, her uninsured house burned down, and she was left homeless with three boys to raise on her own.
Too proud to accept public aid, she moved her whole family into her brother's kitchen and started looking for work. The only previous work she had done was chopping cotton and serving as a department store clerk in her youth. After several failed attempts at starting a career, she obtained a Licensed Practical Nurse certificate and was thereafter able to support her family and get all three sons to complete a college education. She eventually became Safety Director for a St. Louis Ship shipyard. In 1992, she became one of the last people in the state of Missouri to be allowed to sit for the Nursing Home Administrators exam who did not have formal postsecondary training in health care administration. She taught herself college-level management, personnel, and finance, and passed the test. From 1992 to 1996 she was administrator of the River Oaks Care Center in Steele, Missouri, which she transformed into a vibrant, loving community for elders and the disabled. Mrs. Quinn currently resides in Steele, Missouri , with her husband of more than 20 years.
Requirements
The scholarship will be awarded annually to one student using the following criteria:
- Full time Junior or Senior
- Admitted into the Â鶹´«Ã½ Undergraduate Nursing Program
- A demonstrated financial need (established by the Office of Financial Aid)
For more information and application deadlines, please contact the financial aid office.
- Current licensure as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of VA
- Completion of most of the general education requirements at the time of admission into the RN-BSN program
- Demonstrate academic excellence during the first semester enrolled in the RN-BSN program
- Cumulative GPA 3.5 or higher
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
Recipients are automatically considered based on established criteria including FAFSA information and transcripts.
- Applications accepted from admitted sophomore students each fall semester.
- Scholarship is based on need.
- Scholarship packets are mailed out in April.
- Deadline for applications is May 1.
- The nursing admissions committee reviews the applications that meet the requirements. Each applicant submits a packet that consists of an application, three references and a 500-word essay. Those who meet the requirements are invited to come in for an interview with the committee. The selected recipient is notified by a phone call followed by a letter.