Victor E. Schimmel Memorial Nursing Scholarships
The Camden Group established the Victor E. Schimmel Memorial Nursing Scholarship fund to promote advanced education of tomorrow's leaders and nursing faculty. The Camden Group awards three scholarships a year to individuals who are currently enrolled in, or have recently been accepted to a college or university for an advanced degree. All nurse managers, directors, educators, and nursing program faculty are invited to apply.Victor E. Schimmel, MS, MBA was a vice president at The Camden Group with overall responsibility for The Camden Group's financial planning and advisory services. With over 20 years of consulting and line management responsibility in the healthcare industry, he had advised continuing care retirement communities, congregate care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, hospitals, integrated delivery systems, and health plans on a wide range of financial issues.
Mr. Schimmel received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York and master's degrees from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (business) and Columbia University (mathematical statistics).
On December 8, 2000 Victor passed away leaving his wife Sydney and two daughters, Amelia and Joanna. In honor of our friend and colleague, the Victor E. Schimmel Memorial Nursing Scholarships were established. These scholarships are designed to support the advanced educational pursuits of nursing educators and nursing leaders.
2008 Recipients of the Victor E. Schimmel Memorial Nursing Scholarships
Ms. Suzanne August-Schwartz is enrolled at Rush University and is working on the completion of her doctorate in nursing. Ms. August-Schwartz is currently the Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. Her goals after graduation include advancing the Family Practitioner Program at Samuel Merritt by increasing the number of students enrolled in the program and the number of clinical sites in the Bay area providing services to underserved populations.
Ms. Pamela Miller is enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles and is working on her Doctorate of Philosophy. Ms. Miller is active at UCLA Medical Center as a Nurse Practitioner III, is an expert clinician in the care of cardiology and critical care patients, and is a Graduate Student Researcher. Ms. Miller has worked as a teaching assistant within the UCLA School of Nursing and collaborated on the curriculum development for the Nursing Informatics courses in the Masters Entry Clinical Nurse Program at UCLA. Her goal post graduation is to educate the next generation of nurses.
Ms. Virginia Hart-Kepler is working on the completion of her doctorate in nursing at the Hahn School of Nursing at the University of San Diego. Ms. Hart-Kepler is currently an Adjunct Clinical Faculty member at Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing. The emphasis of her studies is the decision-making of newly arrived émigrés from Mexico with diabetes who are expected to do self care in the western model of medicine. Her goals post graduation include becoming a full-time faculty member within the School of Nursing, teaching tomorrow's nurses, and continuing to practice in community setting as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Congratulations to these outstanding nurses and future nursing faculty.
Ms. Pamela Miller is enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles and is working on her Doctorate of Philosophy. Ms. Miller is active at UCLA Medical Center as a Nurse Practitioner III, is an expert clinician in the care of cardiology and critical care patients, and is a Graduate Student Researcher. Ms. Miller has worked as a teaching assistant within the UCLA School of Nursing and collaborated on the curriculum development for the Nursing Informatics courses in the Masters Entry Clinical Nurse Program at UCLA. Her goal post graduation is to educate the next generation of nurses.
Ms. Virginia Hart-Kepler is working on the completion of her doctorate in nursing at the Hahn School of Nursing at the University of San Diego. Ms. Hart-Kepler is currently an Adjunct Clinical Faculty member at Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing. The emphasis of her studies is the decision-making of newly arrived émigrés from Mexico with diabetes who are expected to do self care in the western model of medicine. Her goals post graduation include becoming a full-time faculty member within the School of Nursing, teaching tomorrow's nurses, and continuing to practice in community setting as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Congratulations to these outstanding nurses and future nursing faculty.
