Nomination Categories

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2022 NURSING EXCELLENCE AWARDS ARE NOW CLOSED

From May 6, 2022 through November 11, 2022 you may click on the appropriate

nomination button below each category to start your submission.

Each award will be judged on the information you provide. Above each award nomination button you will find a sample of the Nomination Criteria provided to you in a PDF format. Please review the criteria before beginning your nomination and refer back to this document while writing your nomination.

DO NOT provide identifying information in your essay

This is an anonymous process with all nominations blinded.

Finally, we are providing tips for submitting a successful nomination.
We encourage you to review the tip sheet below before beginning your award submittal: 
Tips for a Successful Nomination

 

"Touch a Life" Award

Nominated by a patient, patient family member, or another community member. This nominee demonstrates the heart of nursing through their positive impact on an individual, family and/or community.

"Touch a Life" Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Touch a Life


Distinguished Nurse of the Year Award

A nurse who, over the past 15 years, has been an exemplar through innovative leadership, fostering involvement in the nursing profession, or forming and engaging partnerships within the community.

Distinguished Nurse of the Year Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Distinguished Nurse of the Year


Excellence in Practice Award

Categories:

  • Advanced Practice: Masters prepared nurse in an advanced practice setting; clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse midwife, nurse practitioner, nurse psychotherapist, CRNA
  • Ambulatory Nursing: Clinic, office and other ambulatory care settings, employee health, occupational health, industrial health, infection control
  • Behavioral Health: Behavioral health and addictive services
  • Case/Quality Management, Managed Care Informatics: Community or hospital case manager, quality management, risk management, infection prevention, patient safety, utilization management, and informatics
  • Critical Care: Adult ICU/CCU, cath lab, special procedures
  • Emergency: Emergency department, flight, ambulance, pre-hospital, telephone triage
  • Home Health/Hospice: Staff nurse in home health care settings, hospice, in-patient hospice
  • Long-Term Care/Rehabilitation: Nursing home, gerontology, services for disabilities, rehabilitative services, subacute/transitional unit
  • Maternal-Child/Women's Health: Obstetrics, gynecology, women's health, nursery, pediatrics, NICU, PICU, Peds ER, early childhood/early intervention services
  • Medical/Surgical: Acute or chronic medical and surgical nursing specialties
  • Perioperative: Perioperative, recovery room, day surgery, operating room
  • Public Health/Community/School: Public health, school, forensic, transplant coordinator, telehealth, parish and corrections/prison nursing

Excellence in Practice Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Excellence in Practice

 

Leadership in Nursing Award

Categories:

  • Emerging Nurse Leader: Inclusive of charge nurses, assistant nurse managers, supervisors; first-line nurse leaders are those professionals who are responsible for overseeing first-level nursing services.
  • Nurse Executive Leadership: Inclusive of Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Deans, executive vice presidents of nursing, or equivalent, these professionals are responsible for leadership at the executive table; designing strategic, operational delivery systems and directing patient care services/education throughout an organization.
  • Nursing Leadership: Inclusive of clinical nurse managers, coordinators, directors; these middle management nurse leaders are often responsible for overseeing several units, departments, or service lines within an organization.

Leadership Nursing Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Leadership in Nursing

 

Nightingale Award

Exemplifies outstanding and caring leadership and professionalism as a beginning practitioner in the first 18 months as a Registered Nurse.

Nightingale Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Nightingale

 

Community Service Award

Recognition of a nurse who takes a leadership role in community organization and has made significant professional or voluntary contributions that have improved the profession or patient care in New Mexico.

Community Service Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Community Service

 

Education/Research/Academia Award

Academic faculty, continuing education, staff development; focus on non-clinical/clinical settings, research.

Education/Research/Academia Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Education/Research/Academia 

 

Rural Practice Award

Recognition of a nurse who practices in small communities and rural health systems (county population of 100,000 or less per US Census Bureau 2020 census estimates (counties other than Bernalillo, Dona Ana, Sandoval, San Juan or Santa Fe), where access to care and resources provide unique challenges. Practice may be in rural hospitals, public health, or ambulatory care settings.

Rural Practice Award Nomination Criteria (pdf)

Nominate a Nurse: Rural Practice

 

 


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