The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is a charity that awards scholarships in leadership, travel and research to nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals to promote excellence in practice. The FNF offers mentoring support to scholars, and provides support in career development and writing articles for publication, in addition to the financial award. The leadership scholarships are bespoke: leadership scholars can access a range of development opportunities that are specially commissioned for them, and select their programme of study and experiences, based on their individual needs. All scholarships provide opportunities to represent the FNF and to meet other scholars at the FNF annual conference. This article provides an overview of the FNF scholarships, based on the findings of two evaluations that demonstrated the value of these scholarships in improving services for patients and carers, as well as enhancing the careers of individual scholars.
Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2017.e10706
CorrespondenceGraduate@florencenightingale-foundation.org.uk; Twitter: @FNightingaleF
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Received: 03 October 2016
Accepted: 07 November 2016
Published online: 11 December 2016
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