Applying for a Scholarship
The Ethics of Caring® (EoC) is committed to providing education for nurses and to help develop the next generation of nursing ethics leaders. Since 2025 we have added scholarships for our social work and chaplain colleagues. For the 2027 National Nursing Ethics Conference, EoC continues to provide a variety of scholarships to attend the two-day conference. In reviewing the list of scholarships available, please note that all include registration for the two-day conference, and a select few include one or two nights at the conference center hotel.
Funds for these scholarships have been provided by generous donors including the Dr. Ann Hamric Memorial Fund, the Dr. Andrew Jameton Memorial Fund, Dr. Carol Taylor, Linda Tigert, Joyce Neuman, Linda Gorman, past speakers who donate their honorariums including Dr. Connie Ulrich and Dr. Christine Grady, and many ethics education supporters.
Scholarships will open in October. Subscribe to EOC email communications for up-to-date information and announcements.
If you are interested in making a donation to support a nurse or other healthcare professional to attend the conference, please consider a tax-deductible donation.
Learn more about making a donation here. We encourage directed donations from retirement distributions as one way to support ethics education. Please contact us at ethicsofcaringnnec@gmail.com, and we will reach out to share our mission and answer any questions you may have.
2027 Scholarships
Ann Hamric Memorial Graduate Student Scholarships
Ann Hamric PhD, RN, was a professor in nursing ethics and a past recipient of the Ethics of Caring Ethics Leadership Award.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (4) recipients. Full-time students will also receive one night stay at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center Hotel (part-time students will receive registration only).
- Criteria: Graduate student in nursing and/or bioethics at the master’s or doctoral level.
- Application includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, educational institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe an ethical challenge or issue that has been important in your education or professional practice. What questions, knowledge, or skills would you like to develop further, and how might conference participation help you address them?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Andrew Jameton Memorial Scholarship
Andrew Jameton, PhD, was an ethics professor and researcher who developed the concept of moral distress and was a past recipient of the Ethics of Caring Leadership in Ethics Award.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Registered nurse who has faced a moral distress issue(s) in their work.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, your institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe an experience with moral distress in your professional practice. What contributed to the distress, how did you respond, and what would help clinicians or organizations respond more effectively to similar situations?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Dr. Carol Taylor Ethics of Caring® Scholarships
A scholarship honoring Dr. Taylor’s significant work in nursing ethics.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (3) recipients.
- Criteria: Registered nurse with an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Ethics of Caring® Scholarships
Graciously funded by leaders including:
Dr. Carol Taylor, Dr. Connie Ulrich, Dr. Christine Grady, as well as other EOC donors.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Healthcare professional (non- nursing) with an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Social Worker who is actively involved in ethics work at their institution.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your current involvement in healthcare ethics, such as ethics committee work, consultation, education, policy, research, or unit-based leadership. How would attending the conference strengthen your ability to contribute to ethics within your organization or profession?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Chaplain who is actively involved in ethics work in their institution.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your current involvement in healthcare ethics, such as ethics committee work, consultation, education, policy, research, or unit-based leadership. How would attending the conference strengthen your ability to contribute to ethics within your organization or profession?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Registered nurse with a minority ethnic background who has an interest in developing further knowledge and skills in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): description of an ethical issue related to justice that you have encountered in your practice. Include an assessment of your gaps in knowledge about ethics along with how you will use the new knowledge obtained at the conference.
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Junior or senior in nursing school with an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, educational institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Registered nurse with less than 5 years since graduation and an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, your educational institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for four recipients.
- Criteria: Registered Nurse who is member of their institution’s ethics committee.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your current involvement in healthcare ethics, such as ethics committee work, consultation, education, policy, research, or unit-based leadership. How would attending the conference strengthen your ability to contribute to ethics within your organization or profession?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Linda Tigert Scholarships
For several years, Linda Tigert, RN, MSN, has generously donated scholarships for the NNEC.
Linda Tigert, RN, MSN has attended the Ethics of Caring Conferences for over 30 years
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration and two nights at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center Hotel for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Registered nurse with less than 5 years since graduation and an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration and two nights at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center Hotel for (1) recipient.
- Criteria: Registered nurse currently in direct patient care and actively involved in ethics at their institution such as being on the Ethics Committee, providing ethics education, acting as an ethics champion, participating in clinical ethics research, or developing ethics policies.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your current involvement in healthcare ethics, such as ethics committee work, consultation, education, policy, research, or unit-based leadership. How would attending the conference strengthen your ability to contribute to ethics within your organization or profession?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (2) recipients.
- Criteria: Nursing faculty actively involved in teaching ethics in their School of Nursing.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, educational institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your current involvement in healthcare ethics, such as ethics committee work, consultation, education, policy, research, or unit-based leadership. How would attending the conference strengthen your ability to contribute to ethics within your organization or profession?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Myra Possman Memorial Scholarships
For employees of Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center
Myra Possman was best known as the lovable and longtime Head Nurse of Pediatrics at the Santa Monica Hospital, now the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. She also served as Director of Maternal Child Health in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before concluding her career as an administrative analyst in the Quality Department. She retired in 2005, after serving for thirty years.
- Scholarship will provide two-day conference registration for (2) recipients.
- Criteria: An employee of Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center with an interest in ethics.
- Application Includes:
- Name, credentials, email, phone, institution, and short bio.
- Essay (maximum 250 words): Describe your interest or involvement in healthcare ethics. How would attending the National Nursing Ethics Conference strengthen your knowledge, skills, professional development, or ability to contribute to ethical healthcare practice?
- Post-conference, recipients will write a one-page essay on the impact of the conference.
Organizational Scholarships
Please see below for additional scholarships available to nurses. Scholarships listed below have separate application processes and must be applied to as noted.
American Nurses Association California Conference Scholarships
For members of ANA California. Applications are accepted year-round.
- Scholarships of $1000 for California conferences.
- Criteria: Member of American Nurse Association California.
- Learn more and apply here: anacfoundation.org/scholarships.
Applications are accepted year-round.
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) NNEC Scholarship
For nursing professionals interested in attending HPNA sponsored conferences, including the National Nursing Ethics Conference. Application deadline is January 1, 2027.
- This scholarship includes two-day conference registration, and up to $500 for airfare, $600 for hotel, and $100 for incidentals.
- Criteria: Nursing professionals interested in attending HPNA sponsored conferences.
- Learn more and apply here: https://advancingexpertcare.smapply.org/prog/hpnf_conference_scholarships/.
Deadline to apply is January 1, 2027.