2024 EXCELLENCE IN NURSING AWARDS

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Excellence in Nursing Awards. This year, there are 16 nomination categories. Please review the category descriptions below and consult the judging rubrics before making your nomination. Nominations are due by February 2, 2024.

• Academic Nurse Educator/Researcher: This category recognizes a nurse involved in research who works to advance evidence-based practice defined as: “the integration of best research, clinical expertise, and patient values in making decisions about the care of individualized patients.”
• Advanced Practice Nursing: This category recognizes an Advance Practice Registered Nurse working in any practice setting, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives.
• Ambulatory Care Nursing: This category recognizes a nurse working in the ambulatory care setting and includes nurses in care coordination, clinic-based nursing and telehealth nursing (based on AAACN defining characteristics).
• Emergency Nursing: This category recognizes a nurse working as an emergency nurse, flight nurse or urgent care nurse.
• Front line/Administrative Nursing: This category recognizes a front line or administrative nursing leader and includes nursing supervisors, clinical leaders, informal/project leaders and functional leaders.
• Gerontology Nursing: This category recognizes a nurse working in gerontologic care or long-term care and includes nurses working in skilled nursing, assisted living, intermediate care and dementia/memory care.
• Hospice-Palliative Care: This category recognizes a nurse working in hospice-palliative care, and includes nurses working in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, assisted living, intermediate care, palliative care, hospice, home care, parish nursing and dementia/memory care.
• Maternal-Child Nursing: This category recognizes a nurse working in prenatal care, high-risk maternal-fetal care, intrapartum care, postpartum care, newborn care, newborn special care and newborn intensive care.
• Medical Surgical Nursing: This category recognizes a nurse working in acute care settings and includes nurses working on in-patient units, including medical-surgical units, intensive care units, post-operative care units, operating suites, etc.
• Professional Nurse Educator: This category recognizes a nurse involved in education who works to advance the knowledge, skills and professionalism required for patient-centered care. This includes active nursing education activities in environments such as: nursing professional development (organizational settings); nurse education (academic settings) and nurse education (clinical settings).
• Nursing Informatics: This category recognizes a nurse involved in nursing informatics who works to “integrate nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.”
• Nurse Innovator/Entrepreneur and Quality Improvement: This category recognizes a nurse involved with Quality Improvement or is a Nurse Innovator/Entrepreneur.
• Pediatric & School Nursing: This category recognizes nurses working with the pediatric population or in a school setting.
• Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing: This category recognizes a psychiatric and mental health nurse working on in-patient units or in community-based care.
• Public Health Nursing: This category recognizes nurses working in the public health setting.
• Senior Nurse Leader: This category recognizes a senior nursing leader and includes nursing directors, vice presidents, chief nursing officers, etc.

Judging rubrics for individual categories can be found here.

Submit a nomination

Important things to know for the 2024 awards:

• Nominations are due by Friday, February 2, 2024.
• Input from the New Hampshire Nurses’ Association’s Commission on Nursing Practice led to some standardization of the rubrics to measure excellence in nursing practice across all specialty categories. The five areas of excellence include leadership, advocacy, ethics, communication and collaboration and professionalism.  Each criterion should be evident within the nomination submitted.
• Before submitting your nomination, please familiarize yourself with the judging rubrics for each category.
• If you’re interested in resubmitting a nomination from a past year, please reach out to Paul Milone and he would be happy to assist you.

2024 EXCELLENCE IN NURSING AWARDS

Please save the date to join us and celebrate the 2024 recipients. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH. Tickets will go on sale in early 2024.