{"id":52729,"date":"2016-11-09T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=52729"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:28:21","slug":"nursing-awards-13-scholarships-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/09\/nursing-awards-13-scholarships-to-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing awards 13 scholarships to veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FxbbOYjUYAg?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A ceremony to honor veterans and recognize 13 veterans who are nursing scholarship recipients from four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> campuses was held in November. <\/p>\n<p>The May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust provided 12 scholarships to help ease veterans&#8217; financial burdens. Recipients say they are thankful for the support. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ve always dreamed of becoming a nurse and this scholarship is going to help a lot financially,&rdquo; said <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> student <strong>Bradley Gudoy<\/strong>, who is a former U.S. Marine. <\/p>\n<p>The Shelley Wilson Nursing Scholarship for Veterans is supporting a veteran of the war in Iraq, who served as an army medic and is pursuing her doctor of nursing practice degree at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/31\/u-s-veterans-and-families-assisted-by-new-nursing-scholarship\/\">U.S. veterans and families assisted by new nursing scholarship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursing.hawaii.edu\/vetstonurses\">Veterans to Nursing program website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s a little bit overwhelming to know that there&#8217;s people out there that really do care about us and they want us to succeed,&rdquo; said scholarship recipient <strong>Ivrys Dukes<\/strong>. &ldquo;It&#8217;s not just about the things we did, but the things that we&#8217;re able to do in the future.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The event&#8217;s organizer, the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursing.hawaii.edu\/home\">School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene<\/a>, is also one of only 20 programs in country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursing.hawaii.edu\/vetstonurses\">providing college credit for veterans&#8217;<\/a> past medical experience and creating quick pathways to professional nursing and employment for service members with healthcare experience. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursing.hawaii.edu\/mary-boland\"><strong>Mary Boland<\/strong><\/a>, dean of the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Â鶹´«Ã½M&#257;noa said, &ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is a state of veterans. We have a huge military presence, both active duty and veterans, their spouses and their dependents. And we want to be a military friendly community. That&#8217;s really important to us.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Student veterans also have friends on Capitol Hill, according to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hirono.senate.gov\/\">Mazie K. Hirono<\/a>, who serves on the U.S. Senate Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees. <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;The good thing is that when it comes to veterans issues,  there is widespread support for these kind of programs,&rdquo; said Hirono. &ldquo;I will continue to push for them.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52739\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-nursing-veterans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-nursing-veterans.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-nursing-veterans-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student veterans with Â鶹´«Ã½M&#257;noa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene Dean Mary Boland, U.S. Sen. 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Hirono and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Photos from the event<\/h2>\n<p>View photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhmanoa\/sets\/72157672702485083\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene is one of only 20 programs in country providing college credit for veterans\u2019 past medical experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":52740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[189,572,167,9,478],"class_list":["post-52729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-nursing","tag-scholarship","tag-school-of-nursing-and-dental-hygiene","tag-uh-manoa","tag-veterans","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-nursing-veterans-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52729"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174179,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions\/174179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}