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EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCHOLARS

Adrian Jones, The National Assembly of Wales Travel Scholar 2004, writes:   I was recently awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarship to visit Nebraska and Colorado, USA, to study how nurses prescribing is being applied in mental health services.   Experiences from this scholarship have enabled me to contextualise the findings into a UK arena and to begin to look forward as to how nurse prescribing will benefit our patients.

Janet James, The Band Trust Research Scholar, 2004 writes:   The CHOPPS Project (Christchurch Obesity Prevention Programme in School) – I am the fortunate recipient of The Band Trust Research Scholarship, provided me with support to complete this large research study.   Through an innovative school based health education programme, focusing on reducing the consumption of carbonated drinks, I have been able to prevent further children from becoming overweight or obese.   By reducing childhood obesity, diabetes and other illness may be prevented in later life.   The Florence Nightingale Foundation has supported this research, which forms the basis of a new regional school based health promotion programme.   This has fulfilled my dream of developing a implementing a novel project promoting good health and ultimately preventing further disease.