A junior majoring in nursing at MTSU has won a unique School of Nursing scholarship contest and has the scrubs to prove it.

Myeshia Watts, center, a junior nursing major from Memphis, celebrates as the 2015 winner of the MTSU School of Nursing Uniform Scholarship Award. Watts won a free blue top and a white lab coat, both emblazoned with the MT logo, for her essay, “An Insight of Nursing.” With Watts at the Nov. 16 presentation ceremony in the Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building are Dr. Jenny Sauls, left, director of the School of Nursing, and Melisa Warner, right, general merchandise manager of Phillips Bookstore. (Photo by MTSU News and Media Relations)

Myeshia Watts of Memphis won a free blue top and a white lab coat, both emblazoned with the MT logo.

Her essay, “An Insight of Nursing,” was chosen as the best from all entries submitted by nursing students for the School of Nursing Uniform Scholarship Award.

The award was announced Nov. 16.

In addition to a traditional four-year baccalaureate nursing program, the MTSU School of Nursing offers the “R.N. to B.S.N program,” which allows currently licensed registered nurses with a diploma or associate’s degree in nursing to obtain a Bachelor of Science in their specialty.

A master’s degree in nursing is available through a consortium program with three tracks: nursing education, nursing administration and family practice nursing.

For more information, visit http://mtsu.edu/nursing.

— Gina K. Logue (gina.logue@mtsu.edu)