The presentation of the 2013 Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship will take place on Thursday, September 19 at 4pm in the afternoon with a formal award ceremony in the main lobby at the Ocean Medical Center located at 425 Jack Martin Boulevard, Brick, New Jersey.
Ocean Medical Center employees, executives and officials along with the scholarship recipients, their families and special invited guests are expected to attend the 2013 award ceremony which is also open to the general public.
The Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship Fund was established on January 15, 2011 and is part of the Ocean Medical Center Foundation family of funds.
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The fund provides monetary assistance to qualified nurses and nursing students of Ocean Medical Center who desire to continue their formal education in nursing profession in the form of scholarships and awards one (or more) nursing scholarship during September of each year to eligible applicants.
The Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship Fund was established to honor the memory of long-time Point Pleasant resident Barbara Forfar or “Foof” as she was called by her fellow nurses and other colleagues in the operating room, and her forty-four years of dedication to the nursing profession with all but three years of her service associated with the Ocean Medical Center or its predecessor hospitals.
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To qualify for the scholarship, the applicant must be an employee or nursing student at Ocean Medical Center and must be enrolled in a RN program, an upper division program (RN to BSN) or advanced degree program (MSN, PhD) in nursing.
All Ocean Medical Center nurses and nursing students from all OMC practice areas were eligible to apply. The scholarship must be used to supplement tuition, fees, lab costs, books or educational supply expenses.
The deadline for submitting the 2013 scholarship application was July 12.
The 2013 award ceremony will mark the third consecutive year that scholarships have been awarded to Ocean Medical Center employees from the fund.
During its first two years of existence, The Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship Fund has provided $4,500 to help aid the formal nursing education of nine nurses and nursing students from Ocean Medical Center.
The monetary amount of this year’s scholarship along with the names of the recipients will be announced on September 19.
Earlier this year on April 21, the Scholarship Fund held its second annual nursing scholarship fundraiser (Rock for the Nurses-Rock for the Shore) at Jenks Club in Point Pleasant Beach and teamed-up with the United Way of both Monmouth and Ocean County and split the proceeds of the event to help provide some much needed financial assistance to Hurricane Sandy victims at the Jersey Shore.
The successful Rock for the Nurses-Rock for the Shore fundraiser included nine of the top bands from around the Jersey Shore and was attended by over 300 guests.
For more information about Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship Fund, including how to make a donation to the fund, please log on to the official fund website at www.forfarscholarship.org
