NURSING DEPARTMENT GETS COMPETITIVE FEDERAL GRANT

The nursing department at Southeast Missouri State University has received its first competitive federal grant from the Division of Nursing, Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The grant will provide financial assistance to three full-time students in the school's graduate nursing program. Valued at $8,764, the grant will cover the students' tuition, fees and book expenses during the 1993-94 academic year.

Grant recipients are Julie Horecker, a registered nurse from Carbondale, Ill., who is the director of nursing at Park Avenue Health Care in Herrin, Ill.; Madonna Sanders, a registered nurse from Chaffee who serves as director of nursing for medical-surgical services at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau; and Deborah Wendel, a registered nurse from Scott City, who also is employed by Southeast Missouri Hospital.