The Face of Nursing Excellence - Investing in Saving Lives
Your gifts help us to make major contributions that will improve the vitality of nursing education and minimize nursing shortages. New private funding will allow us to educate more highly qualified nurses by; creating a supportive environment professionally and financially for outstanding students; sustaining our complex, multi-site programs that were created to meet the needs of a dynamic, focused and geographically dispersed student population; conducting research to address health care and public health issues; and creating an e-network lifeline to connect new graduates.
Ways to Give
Gifts of any size are important to the College's ability to provide students with a quality educational experience and to enable faculty to pursue cutting-edge research opportunities. There are a number of ways you can make a gift to the College of Nursing.
Big Ideas for Nursing:
Supporting Outstanding Students
The nursing shortage is already here, yet the demand for well-prepared nurses is never ending. In WSU's College of Nursing, we are developing young minds for a life of clinical practice. Scholarships and fellowships for outstanding students are critical to motivating more scholars from a diversity of backgrounds to become nurses. With new private funding, we will increase our capacity to provide assistance for motivated students through several programs. You may direct your support to undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral students. Make an impact on the career of a student at WSU, because the world needs every nurse. Scholarships and Fellowships
Revolutionizing our Programs
WSU is committed to preparing nursing professionals with the highest standards. We have developed a state-of-the-art clinical simulation and performance lab with the most innovative technology to sharpen the decision-making skills of future nurses. Our aspiration is to pioneer expanded simulation science and launch initiatives for best practices in educational innovation and in clinical care. The Clinical Simulation and Performance Lab will bridge the gap between lecture instruction and hands-on care using the most up to date simulation technology. Revolutionizing nursing education through innovation while integrating core nursing values of compassion, advocacy, and presence make WSU graduates highly sought after across the state and beyond.
Establishing an e-Mentoring Network
The WSU College of Nursing hat the right answers - and right now - to support the novice nurse. By establishing an e-Network, WSU will support novice nurses as they transition to practice. The nursing profession is facing an ever-growing gap in the work force. While 55% of senior-level Registered Nurses plan to retire in the next 10 years, novice nurses are leaving the profession at an alarming rate, in part because of challenging workplace enviromnents that often lead to job dissatisfaction and burnout.
Through hand-held computers, nurses will have access to an online response system with expert-based answers to clinical questions, a reference shelf of evidence-based practice guidelines, and a mentoring program that creates a feedback loop between staff nurses and the faculty who educated them.
Through this initiative, we will further position the University's ability to improve the delivery of care in our region and beyond. As a land-grant institution, we take seriously our responsibility for creating consistent and high-quality care for people in all counties in the state, both urban and rural.
Attracting and Retaining Faculty
Faculty talent is nursing's most valuable commodity, and nursing colleges are competing for the top faculty. Endowments that support the scholarship and research of renowned educators and scientists are essential for the college's sustained excellence in this active field. We must bring in additional faculty whose reputations will catalyze enrollments and whose research will improve patient safety.
The college aspires to establish four distinguished professorship endowments in nursing research and education. Specifically, the college will use these funds to recruit and retain nurse scientists with national expertise in health outcomes and nursing education research. Funding of these professorships will further the recruitment of senior-level nursing researchers, equip their research laboratories, and encourage their engagement with graduate student assistants for their research.
College of Nursing Priority Funds:
Dean's Excellence Fund-This is the Dean's unrestricted fund and the donations to this fund are used at the Dean’s discretion. Funds have been used to support commencement, convocation, faculty travel, faculty/staff recognition, faculty recruitment, celebrations and much more.
Development Director's Fund-This is the Development Director’s unrestricted fund and the donations to this fund are used at the Director's discretion. Funds may be used for all WSU “common expenditure objects” in the performance of official duties for purposes that advance the mission of the College. Funds have been used to support donor related activities, promotional materials, travel and related expenses for the purposes of solicitation, cultivation and stewardship.
Nursing Department Development Funds:
Anderson Library Fund-The Betty M. Anderson Library
relies on its donor support for funds for "Special
Items," such as books on nursing art, history, and
nurses’ stories. Reference books and
journal collections (which tend to be quite expensive)
are also supported with these funds
Clark Simulation and Practice Center Fund-Donations
will be used to help support staffing, equipment,
software, and supplies required for new or ongoing
services for the Learning Simulation and Practice
Centers.
Cleveland Visiting Scholar Fund-Named in honor of Dean Thelma Cleveland, gifts to this fund will bring in visiting premiere, national and international nurse and health care leaders who will present lectures to provide the latest information to health care professionals, consumers and our nursing students and faculty.
Denice Murphy Community Nursing Fund–This fund is used to support the College’s service and education projects that involve community nursing, the poor and medically underserved, and those affected by breast cancer.
Downtown Nursing Fund-Donations to this fund help offset maintaining the Downtown Clinic where our students give community health care assistance for the homeless and others. Donations help to provide needed supplies not covered in the state budget.
Research Fund–Gifts to the fund are used to support individual faculty research, research infrastructure for the college, software and equipment, and other research related expenses.
Tri-Cities Nursing Development Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support baccalaureate and RN to BSN nursing education in Tri-Cities.
Vancouver Nursing Development Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support RN to BSN and graduate nursing education in Vancouver.
Yakima Nursing Education Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support baccalaureate nursing and graduate education in Yakima.
Anderson Family Scholarship Fund-For graduate students only.
Evalyn Johnson Byers Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates.
Ann Sherman Christian Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Dorothy Detlor Graduate Fellowship Fund-Provides fellowship stipends to be used by the recipients for such things including but not limited to tuition and fees, subsistence, research expenses, and other educationally related costs. Specifically, distributions from this fund shall be used to provide dissertation research support for PhD students.
Laura Dustan Scholarship Fund-For graduate students only.
Iris Finch Loan Fund-For emergency use only, a measure of last resort. Must be paid back within one year of graduation or 6 mos. after withdrawal of the program. Loan limit of $500 per semester to any one student. Must sign a promissory note.
Jan Holloway Award for Excellence in Clinical Instruction-This fund provides a monetary award to a faculty member to recognize their excellence in clinical instruction in the undergraduate program while demonstrating the highest professional values and encourages professional and personal development in students.
Karen Johnson Doke Memorial Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Jones Family Scholarship Fund-For WSU graduate students only
Lyn Kaste-Gould Memorial Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates.
Arnie and Marta Kegel Nursing Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Ed and Arlene Koetje Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Don and Julia Lee Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Emma Walter Neusse Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates
Hilda Roberts Nursing Scholarship-For undergraduates only.
John M. Riley Jr. , Nurses in Business Education Fund-undergraduate students a mechanism by which nurses can expand their choices in delivery of health care, particularly as they consider operating their nursing careers as their own business entities through utilization of business principles taught within the nursing program and lectures.
HD & Clara Schlotfeldt Emergency Loan Fund-Available to Yakima students for emergency use only. Loans must be repaid within one year of graduation. Must sign a promissory note.
St. Luke's Alumnae Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Trudi Smith Scholarship and Emergency Loan Fund-For emergency use only, limited to $100, per student, per term. Loans must be repaid within one year of graduation. Must sign a promissory note.
Patricia Stec Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Judith Steward Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Margaret Embry Sylvies Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only
Templeton Family Excellence Fund in Nursing (Trust)-Funds may be used for all WSU “common expenditure objects” in the performance of official duties for purposes that advance the mission of the University.
Edna Sackett Thompson Nursing Scholarship Fund-For prenursing students at WSU
For more information on how you can help, or any questions you may have, please contact:
WSU Spokane
College of Nursing
SNRS 161
PO Box 1495
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
malone@wsu.edu