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Thanks for Supporting Tomorrow’s Nurse Leaders

  • Your support in 2010 is greatly appreciated and will help support tomorrow’s nurses. We all need nurses like Eileen Bowden and 100% of the funds raised in this effort will go again towards developing the future of another hero like her.

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    Running For a Reason

  • Ken Dion, MSN, MBA, RN, is training again for the San Francisco Half Marathon. In 2009 Ken's efforts began as an effort to raise funds for nursing scholarships and to increase awareness around the need for future nurse leaders. However, mid-way through his training his run became a memorial in rememberance of Eileen Bowden.

    • Who Was Eileen Bowden?

  • Eileen Bowden was a school nurse who died suddenly in the spring of 2009 after saving the life of a softball coach who collapsed at the school where they both worked in Santa Clara, California. Eileen valiantly performed CPR until the paramedics arrived. Tragically, she collapsed and died shortly after the paramedics left. Eileen died doing what nurses do – providing care to another.
  • Read more about this act of heroism.

    • What should I donate?

    Suggested donations:

    Gold  

    		   $25/mile = $325
    Thomas Grant
    Kevin McClure

    Silver 

    		    $10/mile = $130
    Bob Bacon
    Dr. Jean Kejik
    Ben Diamond
    Melanie Miller
    Les Amidei
    Nancy Dion

    Bronze

    		    $5/mile = $65
    Martin Estill
    Adena Blair
    Jeanne McAlpin
    Tome Smith
    Rhonda Alexander
    Dr. Betty Skaggs
    George Bonelli
    Dr. Carol Huston
    Joseph Bowden
    Barbara Butler

    $2/mile = $25
    Kathy Bennison
    Judi Baron
    Dr. Billye Brown
    David Mehok

    2009 Was A SUCCESS!

  • Ken’s completed the run in just over 2 hours and raised over $3,200 to fund the Eileen Bowden Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarship, awarded for the first time in 2010 by the Foundation of the NSNA, was given to Kristi Dazza, a nursing student at Oregon Health & Science University.

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