An evaluation of the Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarships

Rose, Matthew; McCabe, Candy; Tod, Angela; Giordano, Richard

Abstract

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is a charity that awards scholarships in leadership, travel and research to nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals to promote excellence in practice. The FNF offers mentoring support to scholars, and provides support with career development and writing articles for publication, in addition to the financial award. The leadership scholarships are bespoke: leadership scholars can access a range of development opportunities that are specially commissioned for them, and select their programme of study and experiences, based on their individual needs. All scholarships provide opportunities to represent the FNF and to meet other scholars at the FNF annual conference. This article provides an overview of the FNF scholarships, based on the findings of two evaluations that demonstrated the value of these scholarships in improving services for patients and carers, as well as enhancing the careers of individual scholars.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 7, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 18, 2017
• Deposit Date: Nov 10, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 18, 2018
• Journal: Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
• Print ISSN: 0029-6570
• Electronic ISSN: 2047-9018
• Publisher: RCN Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 21
• Pages: 40-44
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2017.e10706
• Keywords: Florence Nightingale Foundation, nursing
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/899802
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.2017.e10706
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the accepted version. The final version of the article can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.2017.e10706
• Contract Date: Nov 10, 2016