AWHONN is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Awards of Excellence. If you wish to nominate a member who has demonstrated outstanding ability in one of these categories, please use this form to submit. The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, November 17, 2023.
Recognition and Reimbursement:
Award honorees will each receive a complimentary AWHONN Convention registration, travel stipend, Award Plaque, and an invitation to the VIP reception with a guest. The travel stipend includes one-night hotel room and tax, $500 for transportation, and two days per diem. Additionally, they will receive either a $200 credit for AWHONN’s online store, or a complimentary one-year full membership.
Leadership
- Advocates for optimal care of women and newborns through leadership efforts, which translate to system change
- Contributes to promoting the profession of women’s or newborns’ health nursing within a system, culture, or division
- Describes the advocacy or leadership contribution which promotes AWHONN’s mission
- Contributes to promoting women’s or newborns’ health nursing on the local, state, or federal political arenas beyond employment requirements
- Integrates AWHONN’s mission and standards in their contribution to women’s and newborn’s health through advocacy efforts
- Mobilizes colleagues in support of a legislative or health policy issue that is reflective of AWHONN’s mission and standards
- Enhances colleagues’ ability to influence health policy through mentoring and educational activities
- Demonstrates the following leadership attributes:
- Visionary and passionate regarding AWHONN and health promotion of women and newborns
- Models professional behavior
- Motivates excellence in others, encouraging opportunities for growth, change and development
- Inspires confidence and celebrates the success of others above one’s success
- Communicates complex ideas in a simplistic manner
- Lives the message: creative, resourceful, confident, and passionate
Education
- Contributes to the knowledge base of women’s health, obstetric and/or newborn nursing care
- Improves professional nursing practice through teaching excellence, such as simplistically conveying complex concepts, using innovative methods, incorporating evidence-based practice standards, interprofessional education, and/or using a collaborative approach
- Identifies the candidate’s role in education that has AWHONN Chapter, Section, national or international implications.
- Promotes excellence in others, such as encouraging opportunities for professional growth and/or evidenced-based practice
- Describes the educational contribution which promotes AWHONN’s mission and AWHONN’s commitment to evidence-based education and practice
- Demonstrates the following AWHONN leadership attributes:
- Visionary and passionate regarding AWHONN and health promotion of women and newborns
- Models professional behavior
- Motivates excellence in others, encouraging opportunities for growth, change and development
- Inspires confidence and celebrates the success of others above one’s success
- Communicates complex ideas in a simplistic manner
- Lives the message: creative, resourceful, confident, and passionate
Practice
- Advances clinical excellence of professional nursing in a clinical or community setting that serves a women’s health, obstetric or newborn population
- Integrates clinical practice of evidence-based care through an innovative strategy
- Contributes to nursing practice which has Chapter, Section, national or international implications as demonstrated by project description, publication, poster, or podium presentation
- Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, leads and champions change, quality improvement, and implements evidence-based practice in a clinical or community setting
- Describes the professional practice contribution which promotes AWHONN’s mission
- Demonstrates the following AWHONN leadership attributes:
- Visionary and passionate regarding AWHONN and health promotion of women and newborns
- Models professional behavior
- Motivates excellence in others, encouraging opportunities for growth, change and development
- Inspires confidence and celebrates the success of others above one’s success
- Communicates complex ideas in simplistic manner
- Lives the message: creative, resourceful, confident and passionate
Research
Demonstrates the following AWHONN leadership attributes:
- Visionary and passionate regarding AWHONN and the health promotion of women and newborns
- Model professional behavior
- Motivates excellence in others and encouraging growth, change, and development opportunities
- Inspires confidence and celebrates the success of others above one’s own
- Communicates complex ideas in a simplistic manner
- Lives the message: creativity, resourcefulness, confidence, and passion
- Welcomes controversy and challenging to reset the standard
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Eligibility
- All applicants must be a registered nurse; current or retired
- All applicants must be a Full AWHONN member for at least three years prior to nomination (since at least January 1, 2021)
- In the year of nomination, full, emeritus or lifetime membership is required
- Candidates will only be recognized for one award category
- The AWHONN Board of Directors, National Committee Chairs, Awards Committee members and AWHONN Staff are ineligible to be considered for any AWHONN award for the duration of their tenure in said position, as well as for two years post-position
Components Necessary for Completion of Application
- Application Form completed by the candidate by Friday, December 8, 2023
- Uploaded current resume/curriculum vitae of candidate
- Documentation of support, format to be specified in application
- If selected, a headshot of at least 300 dpi will be required
- The honoree selected may be asked to be a member of the 2025 Awards Committee
Nominating a nurse takes minutes! Use the button below to find out more and get started on this easy process. The deadline to submit your nomination is midnight (EST) on Friday, November 17. Submitted nominations are automatically sent to awards@awhonn.org.
