1305 N.

Martin Avenue
P.O. Box 210203
Tucson, AZ 85721-0203
Tel: (520) 626-4913
Fax: (520) 626-2669
Email: bethlee@email.arizona.edu
www.nursing.arizona.edu

April 10, 2019

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing you in support of Haley Kennedy’s application to the Kathern F. Gruber & Thomas
H. Miller Scholarship Program through the Blind Veterans Association. Haley is currently my
student in the NURS 471 Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing course. She is currently a 3rd
semester senior with the University of Arizona College of Nursing. I have first-hand knowledge
of Haley’s exceptional academic success in the didactic portion of the course. I also have her
during her 10-week psychiatric/mental health nursing clinical rotation this spring 2019 semester.
As a clinical instructor/lecturer with over thirty-years of experience in various psych nursing
areas, I have a unique opportunity to become acquainted with my students as individuals. Since
they're learning to use their own personalities as a therapeutic tool, I try to help them get to
know themselves more in depth and as members of a team; rotating to various units serving
crisis intervention and psychiatric emergency care for all ages, including child/adolescent and
adult inpatient populations. My goal for them is to practice interpersonal relationship skills that
can be generalized and applied to any nursing endeavor they choose.

I have found Haley to be engaged and prepared. She is always professional in her manner.
She has excellent verbal and written communication skills. She is supportive to her peers and
compassionate with her patients. I highly recommend Haley, without reservation, as a superior
candidate for the scholarship for which she is applying.

Sincerely,

Beth Lee

Beth Lee, MSN, RN-BC

Course Co-Chair, Clinical Instructor