Creighton Harper Nursing Scholars logo" width="225" height="161" />The Harper Nursing Scholars Program is Creighton’s premier nationally competitive nursing scholarship and leadership program. Seven to eight Harper Scholars are chosen annually to receive a $40,000 annual education scholarship.
The Harper Nursing Scholars Program seeks to form academically talented students into reflective and compassionate practitioners, innovative scholars, confident advocates, and ethical nurse leaders through hands-on learning, enrichment opportunities, and a curriculum rooted in the Jesuit tradition.
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Harper Nursing Scholars will gain nursing competencies, establish a framework for ethical decisions, develop a habit of reflection, and understand the relationship between health inequity, health disparities, and social determinants of health.
These pillars serve as the foundation of the program and will be taught and reinforced every year. Programming is intentionally designed to give students the opportunity to put these four pillars into action.
The scholarship provides funding for the following programming over the Harper Nursing Scholars’ four years:
Students interested in the Harper Nursing Scholars Program must complete an undergraduate application to Creighton University and select Nursing as their major by December 1. Students who are admitted to the Creighton University College of Nursing and have a minimum cumulative high school GPA of 3.8 will be extended an invitation to apply for the Harper Nursing Scholars Program in their admissions portals. Harper Nursing Scholars Program applications will be due by January 10.
Harper Nursing Scholars will be encouraged to seek leadership positions in local or national professional student nursing organizations, engage in undergraduate research with nursing faculty, participate in service opportunities through Creighton’s Schlegel Center for Service and Justice, join professional nursing organizations, and seek additional opportunities for advocacy.
Over their four years, Harper Nursing Scholars will grow in their pursuit of excellence as exceptional nurses and healthcare leaders.
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I came to Creighton from Sacramento, California, in 1993 to pursue a Bachelor of Science in nursing. After graduating, I earned a Master of Science and became a family nurse practitioner.
The College of Nursing faculty impressed upon me the importance of advocacy, leadership, service, and research. While in graduate school, I worked as a nurse coordinator and genetic research associate in Creighton’s Department of Preventive Medicine with Dr. Henry Lynch.
Upon graduating as a nurse practitioner, I joined Creighton Nephrology Associates with Dr. Bo Dunlay and served the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association locally, regionally, and nationally. One of my favorite roles was that of legislative director for the Midwest region and national health policy committee member.
While in California, I worked as a school nurse and was instrumental in advocating for state-wide legislation that required public schools to stock epinephrine. In 2021, a friend of mine and I teamed up to build Equivax, a model program to provide equity in COVID vaccine distribution. Our model became the official vaccine clinic model for Sacramento County.
In 2019, I earned a Doctor of Education in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton and moved back to Omaha in 2022.
