I’m very grateful for the immense privilege of being mentored by Dr. Lorraine Wright and learning from her exceptional clinical excellence and wisdom with families. I initiated a scholarship at the University of Calgary to honor her international leadership in family nursing and share her legacy with a new generation of graduate students who are committed to advancing family health and healing.
LORRAINE M. WRIGHT FAMILY NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
This endowed scholarship was created to honor Dr. Lorraine M.Wright’s outstanding efforts to create and disseminate nursing knowledge about caring practices with families experiencing illness. Dr. Wright’s clinical scholarship has changed the face of family nursing with important contributions to theory, practice, and research. Her work has been valued by an international community of nurses and by a variety of health professionals who encounter families in their clinical practice. Dr. Wright’s immense contributions to family nursing were recognized with an Order of Canada Award in 2022.
The scholarship is awarded to students entering or enrolled in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary in a program leading to either a Master of Nursing (MN) or a PhD with a special focus on nursing practice with families.
Award recipients include:
2009/10: Ann Boerner PhD
2010/11: Michael Metzger MN
2011/12: Karen McNeil MN
2012/13: Erin Thompson MN
2013/14: Karen McNeil MN
2014/15: Dawn Degenhardt MN
2015/16: Emilie Villeneuve MN
2016/17: Alison Shaw MN
2017/18: Bikramjit Sekhon MN
2018/19: Jennifer John PhD
2019/20: Kari Simonson PhD
2020/21: Jacqueline Wilson PhD
2021/22: Isobel Deaken MN
2022/23: Sandip Dhaliwal PhD
To donate to the Lorraine M. Wright Family Nursing Scholarship, please contact the Office of Advancement | University of Calgary: https://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/advancement/contact-us/details
“If health and illness and family nursing were conceptualized as relationship issues, how might our family nursing practice, education, and research be transformed?”