National Nursing Group Awards Top Research Honor to SLU Nurse Focused on Children with Cancer

National Nursing Group Awards Top Research Honor to SLU Nurse Focused on Children with CancerTrudy Busch-Valentine School of Nursing Professor of Nursing Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, Ph.D., has been named the 2026 National Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award by the National Hospice and Palliative Nursing Association (HPNA)./-img/-newsfeeds/newsfeed-slu.svg03/19/2026Verna Hendricks-Fergusonnewsfeed-nursing