Kristin DeArruda Wharton
A 2017 Bush Fellowship winner, Kristin DeArruda Wharton has added another exemplary award to her growing collection.
Recently March of Dimes announced the recipients for its 2018 Graduate Nursing Scholarships for post-graduate and doctoral studies in the field of maternal-child nursing, and DeArruda-Wharton was one of the four chosen.
Not only was she picked; she was given the special designation as the March of Dimes Margaret C. Freda Scholarship Recipient as the highest-scoring applicant in 2018.
Kristin is a registered nurse pursuing a master of science in nursing at Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Kentucky, to become a family nurse practitioner.
She is committed to improving maternal-child health in rural communities in northeastern Minnesota as well as throughout the United States.
DeArruda Wharton has identified some of the challenges and risk factors facing rural women and their babies.
For example, preterm birth rates and other poor health outcomes are disproportionately high in rural communities in the U.S. Family nurse practitioners play a crucial role in rural American communities that often have a shortage of primary care providers.
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