Whipple earns NHCGNE's Archbold Award

The National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE), located at The Gerontological Society of America, has named Mary O. Whipple, BSN, RN, PHN, CCRP, as the 2015-2017 recipient of the NHCGNE Patricia G. Archbold Scholar Award.

This distinguished honor will support Whipple's doctoral training and propel her career in academic gerontological nursing. She is currently a doctoral student (BSN-PhD) at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, a founding NHCGNE member institution. Whipple's primary mentor is Diane J. Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FAAN.

Since 2000, the NHCGNE has had the generous backing of the John A. Hartford Foundation, with additional support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Mayday Fund. These partners have invested over $80 million in national efforts to build academic gerontological nursing capacity through their support. The initiative has supported 280 predoctoral and postdoctoral nursing scholars and fellows who have stimulated excitement about the field among nursing students and practicing nurses. They are among outstanding leaders who will shape future care for older persons.

NHCGNE Executive Director J Taylor Harden, PhD, RN, FAAN, offered her congratulations to Whipple, Treat-Jacobsen, and University of Minnesota School of Nursing Dean Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI.

"The NHCGNE is delighted that Mary is a part of gerontological nursing and improving the health of older Americans," Harden said. "Mary represents the hopes and dreams of many gerontological nurses as well as the hopes of John A. Hartford and George L. Hartford, founders of the John A. Hartford Foundation, who said, 'it is necessary to carve from the vast spectrum of human needs one small band that the heart and mind together tell you is the area in which you can make your best contribution.'"

Provided by The Gerontological Society of America