BOOK SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

Due Monday October 3, 2016

Name: Mishya Otis

Street Address: 1948 Webber St.
City/State/Zip: Sarasota, FL 34239
County: Sarasota
Email: mbo16@my.fsu.edu
Home Phone: 941-735-9215
Cell Number: 941-735-9215
Current place of employment: Full-time DNP Student at Florida State University , Aug. 2016 USF BSN
Graduate
Position: Student
Type of work:
RN License Number

9443267

State:

FL

Exp. Date 7/31/2018

Institution presently attending/enrolled: Florida State University

Major: Doctorate of Nursing Practice Family Practice
PhD____

Program: BSN___

Masters___ DNP___

Anticipated Date of Graduation: 2019

Enrollment status:

full time ()
12 or more hours

three quarter time ( )

9- 11 hours

half time ( )
6-8 hours

less than half time ( )

1 5 hours

ATTACH:
1.) A one-page summary of your professional experiences including involvement in quality improvement
initiatives, committees, professional organizations, presentations and your educational/career plans.
Describe your professional career goals and how the attainment of this degree will facilitate your
development as a nursing professional.
2.) A letter from the school advisor on school letterhead or a copy of a current unofficial transcript providing
proof of enrollment.
I CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS CORRECT

______________________________________
SIGNATURE

09/27/2016
____________________________
DATE

Please return your completed application to:

MISHYA OTIS
1948 WEBBER ST. SARASOTA, FL 34239 | MBO16@MY.FSU.EDU | 941-735-9215
September 27, 2016

Suncoast Organization of Nurse Executives (SCONE)

Dr. Beverly Hindenlang, DNP
Scholarship Committee
7131 Professional Pkwy E. Sarasota, 34240
Dear Dr. Beverly Hindenlang,
First, I would like to thank you for considering my application for your book scholarship award. I am
currently a twenty-one-year-old full-time Doctorate of Nursing Practice student at Florida State University. I
also identify myself with the roles of being a nurse, wife, mother, volunteer, and active member in our
community. This past August 2016, I graduated from University of South Florida with my Bachelors of Science
in Nursing (BSN) with honors, proudly, with my four-month old daughter and three-year old son by my side.
I am a current member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the Phi
Sigma Theta National Honor Society. I have recently joined the Dermatology Nurses Association and the
American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Furthermore, in the past I have volunteered on church mission
trips across Florida and Georgia reaching the underserved populations by building and restoring communities,
assembling and distributing medical supplies, and providing food to the hungry. I also volunteered for four
years at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which included being a hearing screen technician on mother/baby and
NICU. My current goals are to volunteer for the health department as a Registered Nurse and become more
involved in Sarasotas community nursing organizations.
I have a desire to pursue my doctorate because it is the terminal degree in nursing and I believe it the
key to opportunities in developing leadership and advocacy skills as well as clinical knowledge. I am interested
in the subspecialty, dermatology, because it is one of the more specialized and emerging areas of nurse
practitioner work. I believe this field will be professionally rewarding and I will be able to treat patients from all
ages and groups including cosmetic, surgical, and pediatric patients. Because nurse practitioners in
dermatology work with patients across their lifespan, I believe pursuing a DNP, as a family nurse practitioner
will best prepare me for this field. Since dermatology is such a specialized field of nurse practitioner work, I
recognize the need for continuing education postgraduate school to avoid working outside my scope of practice
as a family nurse practitioner. Upon completion of my DNP, I plan on continuing my education and doing a
Nurse Practitioner fellowship in Dermatology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Massachusetts. They offer
an accredited, full-time, two-year intensive fellowship program for certified nurse practitioners and expose
students to medical and cosmetic dermatology as well as research.
I can only enhance my practice by continuing to learn from all aspects of life including formal
education. Doctoral education will allow me to translate evidence-based care into practice, improve systems of
care, and measure outcomes of groups of patients and communities. I want to advance my career as a family
nurse practitioner so I can practice at the expert level and give my patients the best health care possible. I want
to increase my own autonomy and take on greater responsibilities to fight for my patients autonomy. My role
as a student nurse means I am entrusted with new knowledge development in which to grow. My role as a
future family nurse practitioner means I am responsible for influencing health care policy and providing
holistic family-centered primary health care to populations across the lifespan. My actions in pursuing a
terminal degree do not derive from thought but from a readiness for more responsibility.
Sincerely,
Mishya Otis