Bruce Taylor Scholarship
Application Deadline: April 30 (5:00 p.m. EST)
This is a $5,000 scholarship award.
The Bruce Taylor Scholarship is a $5,000 scholarship award that supports the best and brightest among our members’ nursing staff to achieve a higher level of education in a field related to long term care nursing. Award funds must be used for tuition, fees or books.
Applicants must:
- Be employed in a FHCA member facility with a length of employment of at least six (6) months
- Be currently accepted in an accredited school to become a LPN, RN, or ARNP
- Be willing to pledge that, upon successful completion of all coursework and licensure as a LPN, RN, or ARNP, will work as such in a FHCA member facility for at least one year
- Provide proof of course enrollment
- Submit an essay outlining your long term care experience, short/long term career goals and demonstration of financial need
- Provide two letters of recommendation (one from the facility administrator)
This scholarship was named after Bruce Taylor, FHCA President from 1980-82, who was instrumental in moving the association to Tallahassee and negotiated on the Gainesville Plan, Florida’s first-ever Medicaid reimbursement plan for nursing centers. A generous contribution from Ross Laboratories established the fund, with a significant donation made by the family of the late Bruce Taylor to perpetuate the scholarship. During FHCA’s 1983 Annual Conference, the first annual scholarship awards from the Bruce Taylor Scholarship fund were made. Today, this scholarship is funded by generous donors and proceeds raised from the FHCA annual Golf Tournament.