UF nursing doctoral student chosen as national geriatric scholar
A University of Florida College of Nursing doctoral student is one of a select group of predoctoral students nationwide chosen to receive a $100,000 scholarship supporting the work of nursing scholars in gerontology.
Toni Glover, M.S.N., A.R.N.P., was awarded the John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholarship to support her full-time doctoral education. The scholarship program is administered by the American Academy of Nursing. Glover will be awarded $50,000 per year for two years. The Mayday Fund provides an additional $5,000 to candidates whose research focuses on pain in the elderly.
Glover, who has worked as a study coordinator and research nurse for the past 10 years, is examining the relationship between vitamin D and pain in knee osteoarthritis among ethnically diverse older adults in a National Institutes of Health-funded study. Ann Horgas, Ph.D., R.N., a College of Nursing associate professor, is Glover’s mentor and sponsored her application for the scholarship.
“Toni is an outstanding student and is very deserving of this prestigious award,” Horgas said. “She has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the study of pain and to the care of older adults. I am confident she will make significant contributions to understanding the relationships between vitamin D and pain.”
The John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity program was designed to cultivate the development of nurse-researchers, academicians and clinicians committed to improving the lives of older Americans and to increase the academic geriatric nursing capacity in the country.
“As a John A. Hartford Foundation scholar, I will be able to cultivate teaching and leadership skills in geriatric nursing and to further develop my research skills as I transition from a research nurse to
nurse-scientist,” Glover said. “As a nurse practitioner, I am interested in translating research findings into clinical care that contributes to healthy aging. My long-term goal is to build a program of research designed to promote healthy aging, reduce pain and eliminate health disparities.”
Glover joins five former UF College of Nursing predoctoral and postdoctoral recipients of the John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Nursing Scholarship program.