Geraldine "Polly" Bednash (née Parrott; born 1943) is an American nurse practitioner.
[1] Bednash graduated from TWU in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in nursing and was named a Distinguished Alumna in 1997.
Bednash[3] and joined the United States Army Nurse Corps travelling to Vietnam.
[1] Upon returning to North America, Bednash enrolled in a Master's degree nursing program at Catholic University of America and earned her PhD in higher education policy and law at the University of Maryland.
"[8] She was honored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation at the 2019 International Nurses Day at the United Nations.