CORVALLIS — Haylee Burgdorf is the 2017 winner of The Corvallis Clinic Foundation’s James R. Naibert, M.D., Scholarship award. She will receive $1000 to help her pursue her goal of becoming a registered nurse.
The 2015 West Albany High School graduate is scheduled to receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Linfield College in McMinnville in 2019.
A certified nursing assistant at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center since 2015, her ultimate aim is to become a critical-care nurse. “My perfect day at work,” Ms. Burgdorf wrote in her application essay, “includes working alongside ICU nurses while they teach me the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of everything they do, earning the trust of an elderly patient whose dementia causes them to be fearful and skeptical of those around them, and seeing apatient through a milestone in their recovery. My greatest goal in life is to be like many of the nurses I am fortunate to work beside.”
The scholarship, named in honor of Dr. James R. Naibert, provides up to $2,000 to area students who demonstrate an interest in working in a health-related profession that involves direct patient care, such as a physician, nurse, imaging technician, or pharmacist.
To be eligible, applicants must have a college sophomore standing or above and either have graduated from a high school in Linn or Benton county or have lived in the mid-valley for at least three years while working in a healthcare field with direct patient care. A 3.25 post-secondary grade point average is preferred.
Dr. Naibert is a retired family medicine physician who worked at The Corvallis Clinic at Waverly Drive in Albany. His patients chose to recognize his efforts by establishing the scholarship for area students. He also practiced at The Clinic’s Immediate Care Center.
The Corvallis Clinic Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide resources in the mid-Willamette Valley that support health education, preventive health care, and the delivery of health care to at-risk populations.
