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ATTENTION: ASBN has been awarding scholarships since spring 2010. Scholarships have been awarded to 19 recipients in the educator track and 44 recipients in the practice track for a total award amount of $232,500. Twenty nursing programs from around the state have students who have benefited from the Faith A. Fields Nursing Scholarship Loan. These students are spread out around the state and represent 23 Arkansas counties. County of Residence Send nominee’s name and title, place of employment with phone number, and, in a short essay, share why they deserve the award. Please include your name and phone number for follow up. Mail or email your nomination to: NURSING COMPASSION P.O. Box 17427 • Little Rock, AR 72222 sramsel@pcipublishing.com your deserving nurse & nurse educator! DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 30th! Building a connection between phone callers with ease! Dial 7-1-1 and communicate with any caller – 24 hours a day! Arkansas Relay is a free service that provides full telephone accessibility to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, and speech-disabled. This service allows TTY (text-telephone) users to communicate with standard telephone users through specially trained relay operators. For more information, contact Jeff Prail, Account Manager 501-221-1285 (Voice) email: jeffrey.prail@sprint.com (Email) visit our website: www.arkansasrelay.com Location of Nursing Program Captioned Telephone (CapTel ® ) Service – Talk, listen and read ! Don’t miss out on your opportunity to go back to school. Check out this scholarship opportunity at www.arsbn. org. Applications are available on the ASBN website. The completed application and all required documents are due to ASBN by June 1 of each year. If a person with a hearing loss has difficulty hearing on the phone, not anymore! They can hear everything other callers say, just like a traditional call. At the same time, the captioning service transcribes everything they say into captions, which appear on the CapTel display window. For more information, -Visit www.arkansasrelay.com/captel -Contact Arkansas TAP at 800-981-4463 or 501-686-9693 (TTY/Voice) * Offered by the Arkansas Department of Career Education/Arkansas Rehabilitation Services Division. ©2012 Arkansas Relay. All rights reserved. CapTel is a registered trademark of Ultratec, Inc. Other marks are the property of their respective owners. www.arsbn.org 5
