ISPN Foundation Scholarships, Awards and Grants
ISPN 2022 Annual Conference

Applications will open October 1, 2021

Annual Conference Scholarships offered to all members including international members and students!
For Members
For Students

One Research grant for $1,500: Mental Health and Wellness Research Project or Clinical Inquiry Project Grant
Mental Health and Wellness Research Award

One Research grant for $3,000: ISPN Foundation Joyce Fitzpatrick Psychiatric Nursing Research Grant
ISPN Foundation Psychiatric Nursing Research Grant

2021 Award Winners

ISPN Foundation Joyce Fitzpatrick Psychiatric Nursing Research Award
Jelena Komanchuk, RN, BN, PhD Student

2021 Conference Member Scholarship
Roxanna Sheppard, B.SC.NCPMHN (C)

2021 Conference Student Scholarship
Yixi Dong, BSN, RN

2020 Award Winners

2020 Conference Member Travel Scholarship (deferred to be used to travel to 2021 conference)
Tessa Schultz

2020 Conference Student Travel Scholarship (deferred to be used to travel to 2021 conference)
Brittany Abeln
Lynwood Carlton
Alicia Stringfellow

2019 Award Winners

ISPN Foundation Joyce Fitzpatrick Psychiatric Nursing Research Award
Kalyn Renbarger
Click here to see how Kalyn used this research award

ISPN Foundation Mental Health and Wellness Research or Clinical Inquiry Project Grant
Cynthia Handrup

2019 Conference Member Travel Scholarship
David Ampong

2019 Conference Student Travel Scholarship
Kathleen Miley

2018 Award Winners

ISPN Foundation Joyce Fitzpatrick Psychiatric Nursing Research Award
Julie Bertram
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ISPN Foundation Mental Health and Wellness Research or Clinical Inquiry Project Grant
Sharon Ward-Miller

2018 Conference Member Travel Scholarship
Rose Mary Xavier

2018 Conference Student Travel Scholarship
Brayden Nicole Kameg

2017 Award Winners

ISPN Foundation Joyce Fitzpatrick Psychiatric Nursing Research Grant
- Sara Jones
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Mental Health and Wellness Grant
- Allison McCord
Click here to see how Allison used this grant

ISPN Foundation Student Travel Scholarship
- Jeehae Chung

ISPN Foundation Student Travel Scholarship
- Denise Matel-Anderson

ISPN Foundation Student Travel Scholarship
- Melissa Waybrant-Ennis

2016 Award Winners

ISPN Foundation Research Grant
- Kayla Herbell, BSN, RN

Mental Health and Wellness Grant
- Chieh (Sunny) Cheng, MSN, RN

2016 Conference Student Travel Scholarship
- Kayla Herbell, BSN, RN

2016 Conference Student Travel Scholarship
- Adam Searby

2016 Conference Student Travel Scholarship
- Rhonda Schwindt, DNP, RN, PHHCNS-BC

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What's New

The Biden Administration recently posted the Updating Payment Parameters rules, which reverses some of the Trump Administration's sabotage of the Affordable Care Act. The proposed rule extends the enrollment period for Marketplace coverage and expands the role of navigators to help consumers understand and use their coverage. The rule also restores guardrails for 1332 waivers. It is important to create a strong administrative record to support these changes. Please check out and feel free to share the comment portal and social media toolkit below. NHeLP will also have template comments available early next week. This is a short deadline, with comments due July 28. Thank you for your help submitting comments and getting the word out. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jennifer Lav at [email protected]

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides some temporary relief for individuals, families, and communities challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the time ahead will require extensive efforts to move the United States toward healing and justice. Our partners, The Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice’s leadership and policy committee have developed a set of recommendations designed to address systemic injustices for the Biden=Harris Administration. The core recommendations are described in this open-access article, published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-57735-001.html

ISPN 2022 Call for Abstracts is open! For more information and to submit yours, click here. Deadline is August 13, 2021

ISPN would like to extend our congratulations to ISPN Members Evelyn Parrish, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, who has been awarded APNA Psychiatric Nurse of the Year! Congratulations Dr. Parrish!

Read the report: Move Your Mental Health that has been put together by the John W Brick Mental Health Foundation which is based on their review of all published research between 1990 and 2020 reporting on how over twenty different forms of physical activity impact mental health outcomes. https://www.johnwbrickfoundation.org/move-your-mental-health-report/

Nurse Faculty Tool Kit Based on the Film 5B Under Development The faculty tool kit is being developed by a team of subject matter experts selected by AACN and led by Edilma Yearwood, PhD, PMHCNS- BC, FAAN, Chair of the Department of Professional Nursing Practice at the Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. The new 5B teaching resources will be accessible online from AACN’s website in October 2021.

ISPN wrote a letter regarding the President's Plan for children and adolescents at the US southern border. Read the letter here.

New! Find ISPN on Instagram and LinkedIn! Be sure to follow ISPN on any of our social media platforms!

In a new national study from UC San Diego Health, researchers found that nurses who lose a nursing position or leave the profession because of substance use, mental health issues or chronic pain are at an increased risk for death by suicide. Previously we identified that nurses in the United States have a higher rate of death by suicide than the general population. We now know the sad truth about the reasons for nurses’ increased risk of job-related issues prior to death by suicide. https://twitter.com/UCSDMedSchool/status/1381719004050378755

We write with a heavy heart the passing of an exceptional psychiatric nurse, colleague, and friend, Marlene Nadler-Moodie, MSN, APRN, PMHCNS-BC. She was a long time member of ISPN. Read more

The ISPN Peer Support Workgroup has opened up this support to any nurse at this time (members or nonmembers). Click here for more information.

ISPN has partnered with the KY chapter of ANA to put together a Kentucky Nurses Helping Nurses Project. To learn more about this program, click here. If you are interested in volunteering, click here.

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