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The student group is diverse and consists of students seeking the nursing degree for their initial career, students entering nursing for a career change, current RNs seeking a Master’s degree in nursing, and RNs returning to school for the baccalaureate degree. Interacting with such a diverse group of students and a faculty with a broad range of experience and interests provides opportunity for the personal and intellectual development needed for the student preparing for the role of the professional nurse.

The Whitson-Hester School of Nursing is proud to announce the Harriet D. Westmoreland Nursing Scholarship Endowment.

Harriet D. Westmoreland earned her Registered Nurse degree in September 1956 from Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She worked for 12 years at the University of Tennessee at Martin as Director of Student Health Services. After her move to Cookeville, she spent 15 years in public health serving as Director of the Communicable Disease Program for the Upper Cumberland Region. She served for many years on the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing Development Council and received the School's Florence Nightingale Award (2007) and the Distinguished Service Award (2019).

Any student who meets the following criteria will be eligible to receive a scholarship:

•  Must be a regularly admitted or current student in good standing in accordance with current institutional policies.

•  Must be pursuing a major in the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing and accepted into the upper division program.