OVATION Neonatal Nursing Career Path Scholarship Results

For the second year in a row, NANN has awarded two scholarships to deserving NNPs to attend nurse practitioner programs. The Lundbeck Inc. (formerly Ovation Pharmaceuticals) Neonatal Nursing Career Path Scholarship was awarded to Taryn M. Edwards, BSN RNC, of Wilmington, DE, and Motria Alexandra Lonchyna, BSN RN, of Silver Spring, MD.

Taryn Edwards, BSN RNC is a Clinical Nurse III at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is chair of the NICU Breastfeeding Committee and a member of the Maternal-Child Health Leadership Academy (only 19 mentor-mentee pairs are chosen worldwide for this prestigious program). She also serves on several other committees in her unit. One colleague said of her, "If I had a critically ill infant, I would want Taryn to be caring for my child."

Motria Lonchyna, BSN RN is an RN II at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, an ECMO and PRISMA specialist, and a nursing preceptor; she is also bereavement certified. Her nurse manager remarked, "In my tenure as manager, I very clearly recall one or two interviews that left me with the thought that the interviewee was clearly destined to make a difference. Motria was one of those."

NANN is pleased to be able to provide these scholarships to deserving NNPs, made possible by Lundbeck, Inc.