More Profile for RNFOO NIA Award Winning Projects
We are pleased to share the news that a case study of the 2020 NIA Award Winning “Connected Care On the Go” program has been published in the March 2022 …
Nurse Researcher Embraces Arts-Based Healing, Creates Storytelling App
The NIA award-winning proposal for the Your Storyline App noted that “As healthcare providers and advocates, we believe deeply in the growth potential and restorative power of storytelling, the centrality of story …
RNFOO Nurse Innovator Award is contributing to the Culture of Innovation
The story of the Nurse Innovator Award is featured in the recently released issue of Longwood’s Nursing Leadership. In the article “Developing a Culture of Support to Advance and Accelerate …
Great press for the RNFOO Nurse Innovator Award
The Globe and Mail newspaper recently recognized Gail Donner, Mary Wheeler, and the other Honorary Life Members of RNFOO for their amazing work that created the RNFOO Nurse Innovator Award …
Nurse Innovator Award Reception 2020
NIA Founding Donors, Friends & Supporters, Award Winners and other friends of RNFOO gathered virtually for the 2020 Nurse Innovator Award Reception on November 18. The evening was a terrific …
RNFOO 2021 Connie Clerici Nurse Entrepreneur Award (CCNEA)
The application deadline for 2021 has passed. Winner will be announced at the NIA Reception November 17. An entrepreneur is: “one who organizes, manages and assumes the risks of a …
Celebrating when the Celebration is Cancelled
Soon after the RNFOO Year of the Nurse Bracelet Campaign launched, we received an order for two bracelets: one of each of the styles available. Through follow-up correspondence with Monica, …
Delayed, but not Defeated; Disrupted, but not Discouraged
Interim Reports from the 2019 Nurse Innovator Award Winners While civic leaders and politicians at all levels try to guide the economy, the education system, and our citizens through a …
Where Are They Now?
RNFOO began distributing scholarships to Ontario nurses and nursing students in 1972. Since inception, well more than 1,000 nurses have benefited from the generous donors who fund RNFOO awards and …
2018: Therese Astilerro
Therese Astillero received the Ontario Nurse Informatics Group (ONIG) scholarship through RNFOO in 2018. This scholarship provides opportunities to Registered Nurses who wish to pursue further education in informatics. A …
