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| Nickie Burney, MSN, CNP, FNP-BC |
Sharran Nicolle (“Nickie”) Burney, MSN, CNP, FNP-BC, of the Division of Endocrinology’s Diabetes Management Service, was awarded a $10,000 health equity scholarship from the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF) and Johnson & Johnson. The inaugural scholarship was given to five doctoral nursing students nationally in recognition of their work to advance health equity.
Burney, a PhD candidate and third-year research fellow at the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, was selected for her proposal to investigate how hospital environments shape diabetes outcomes among vulnerable populations. In addition, as a visiting scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she is working on a secondary analysis to explore the prevalence rates and occupational risks of diabetes among essential hospital workers.
A nurse at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Burney serves as the inaugural simulation educator for the BWH Physician Assistant Fellowship Program. She is also an adjunct associate professor of practice at Simmons University and an assistant course director for the annual Update in Hospital Medicine course at Harvard Medical School.
The NEF provides graduate-level nursing scholarship assistance to advance the study of nursing. Johnson & Johnson is committed to improving health care through science and technology innovation.
