Scholarship Information
Eileen and Lawson Drake Prize in Pediatric Nursing | |
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| Maximum Amount: | $440.00 |
| Faculty: | Nursing |
| Status: | Current 2nd Year |
| Process: | Based upon recommendation from the Dean of Nursing |
| Scholarship Type: | Award |
| Description: | Awarded to a Nursing student who, in the second year of the Nursing program, has demonstrated clinical excellence in the care of children and families while maintaining an average of at least 75% in the two Nursing courses of that year (N213 and N223). |
| Background: | This prize is established at the University of Prince Edward Island by Eileen and Lawson Drake. Eileen (Jay) Drake completed Second Year at Prince of Wales College (PWC) in 1950 and graduated from the Prince Edward Island Hospital School of Nursing in 1953, being awarded the prize in Pediatric Nursing. She worked at the Polyclinic in Charlottetown; the Geneva General Hospital, Geneva, New York; the Tompkins County Memorial Hospital, Ithaca, New York; The Dr. Eric Found Health Centre, Charlottetown; and in private duty and home care nursing. She retired in 1988. Lawson Drake graduated from PWC in 1948 and from McGill University (Macdonald College) in 1950. In 1959 he received his Masters degree from Cornell University and returned to PWC to teach Biology until 1966. From1963 to 1966 his teaching duties included Anatomy and Physiology for students in the Prince Edward Island Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving his PhD from Dalhousie University in 1969, he became the first Chair of the Biology Department at UPEI. Dr. Drake served as Dean of Science from 1985 to 1991; as Dean he chaired the Nursing Education Transition Committee whose work established the School of Nursing at UPEI. He retired in 1994. The Drakes believe that the nursing care of infants and children demands special qualities of professionalism, compassion, and commitment. To encourage the development of these qualities in student nurses they have made this prize available to a nursing student demonstrating excellence in child and family care. |
