| AACN Circle of Excellence Awards Program
Applications accepted from April 15 – July 1
Overview
The Circle of Excellence Society
Flame of Excellence Award
Award Criteria
Individual Award & Application Program Information
Chapter Award & Application Program Information
Current and Past Recipients
Overview
AACN’s awards program is highly regarded for its responsiveness to current trends in the nursing profession and in the environments where nurses work. In order to maintain the high caliber program aligned to AACN’s mission and vision, the program will be further enhanced over the next two years. The most visible changes will involve the nomination process for 2009 awards and a new award, Flame of Excellence, which will be presented for the first time at the 2008 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
Historically, the awards program has focused on recognizing roles and practice situations. Beginning with the 2009 awards cycle, a single Circle of Excellence Award will replace the specific awards. Up to 25 individuals who exemplify excellence in the care of acutely and critically ill patients and their families will be chosen annually to receive the award. These recipients will become part of the new Circle of Excellence Society.
Nominees for a Circle of Excellence Award must now be nominated by a colleague. Self-nominations will no longer be accepted. This revised nurse-to-nurse nomination process provides acute and critical care nurses an opportunity to participate in meaningful recognition of their peers and colleagues by nominating them for this prestigious national honor.
Except for the chapter awards, which will continue unchanged, groups and team achievement will now be recognized through the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence and the ICU Design Award, both of which were designed to applaud the outcomes of group and team success. Return to Top
The Circle of Excellence Society
The Circle of Excellence Society will permanently connect award recipients to one another and AACN. The Society will provide a rich network of experts who will continually generate innovation and excellence. Society members will be instrumental in shaping its future activities and will participate in selecting future award recipients. Individuals who previously received a Circle of Excellence award will become the inaugural members of the Society.
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The Flame of Excellence Award
The Flame of Excellence Award is a new recognition that will honor Circle of Excellence criteria at the highest level of sustained regional and national excellence. Award recipients will be chosen from among members of the Society. Dr. Tom Ahrens, Suzanne Burns and, posthumously, Karen Carlson will receive the first Flame of Excellence Awards at the 2008 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition. Return to Top
Circle of Excellence Criteria
- Relentlessly promotes patient-driven excellence
- Models skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making and meaningful recognition
- Transforms thinking, structures and processes to address challenges and remove barriers to advance patient-driven excellence
- Furthers AACN’s mission and key initiatives at influential forums
- Enriches own and other organizations by influencing and mentoring others in achieving excellence
- Achieves visible results that validate impact of individual leadership contribution to organizational excellence.
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2008 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2007 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2006 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2005 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2004 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2003 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
2002 Circle of Excellence Award Recipients
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Educational Advancement Scholarship Information
2007 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
Special thanks to our 2007 Scholarship Reviewers
Special thanks to our 2006 Scholarship Reviewers
2006 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
2005 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
2004 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
2003 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
2002 Educational Advancement Scholarship Recipients
The scholarship application process opened on February 1, 2008 and will close on April 1, 2008.
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| AACN Grants in Support of Clinical Projects & Research
AACN Distinguished Research Lecturer Award |
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ICU Design Citation Award
Honors a critical care unit, which combines functional ICU design with the humanitarian delivery of critical care. The award is sponsored by SCCM, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the American Institute of Architects. Applications for this award must be submitted by August 15, 2007. For additional information regarding this award, please contact Carol Prendergast at cprendergast@sccm.org or 847-827-6826. |
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