Deadline for receipt of nominations: Friday, September 14, 2007
The Committee on Honorary Awards is seeking nominees for the ANA National Awards Program, which recognizes nurses who have made significant contributions to the profession of nursing. During the 2008 House of Delegates in Washington. D.C., ANA will bestow 14 national awards on the recipients at a ceremony in their honor.
Please take a moment to think about your colleagues who exemplify the special qualities recognized by these awards and nominate them for a National Award. The deadline for receipt of complete nominee packets by the ANA Committee on Honorary Awards is September 14, 2007. Nominee packets received after that date will not be considered. No extensions will be granted for incomplete nominee packets. The nominees for all awards represent distinguished nurses who are nominated by the official submitters. Official submitters are defined as:
- CMA presidents/IMD chair or respective designees for all awards; and
- CNPE chair, The Center or UAN presidents or respective designees only for the Mary Ellen Patton Staff Nurse Leadership Award and the Staff Nurse Advocacy Award.
Nominee packets submitted to ANA by other sources will not be considered. ANA structures, ANA related entities and interested groups and individuals are encouraged to collaborate with official submitters to nominate deserving individuals or groups.
A copy of the 2008 ANA National Awards Program Call for Awards Nominations brochure can be downloaded. The brochure provides background information on the program and includes awards criteria, nomination forms for 14 national awards, a Checklist for Individual Nominee Packet, information on what constitutes a complete nominee packet, who can nominate individuals for the awards, and the ANA contact person. The CMAs, IMD, CNPE, The Center and UAN as well as other interested parties may make copies of the brochure for dissemination to those who request information about the awards.
The official submitters need to carefully review and process all nomination materials that they receive for accuracy and completeness prior to mailing them to the ANA Committee on Honorary Awards.
If you have any questions about the awards program, please contact Debra Evans, Senior Governance Specialist in the Leadership and Library Services department at (301) 628-5037 (E-mail: debra.evans@ana.org.)