Congratulations to the following recipients of AACN Circle of Excellence recognition awards for 2008.
Co-sponsored by AACN, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Health, this award recognizes ICU designs that enhance the critical care environment for patients, families and clinicians.
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This award recognizes nurse managers who demonstrate excellence in coordination of available resources to efficiently and effectively care for acutely and/or critically ill patients and their families.
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Sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company, this award recognizes preceptors who demonstrate the key components of the preceptor role, including teacher, clinical role model, consultant and friend/advocate.
This award recognizes individuals or groups who develop and enhance another's intellectual and technical skills, acculturating them to the professional nursing community, and modeling a way of life and professional achievement.
This award recognizes nurses who demonstrate the leadership competencies of empowerment, effective communication, continuous learning and the effective management of change.
This award recognizes nurse educators who facilitate the acquisition and advancement of the knowledge and skills required for competent practice and positive patient outcomes in the care of acutely and critically ill patients and their families.
This award recognizes significant service by acute and critical care nurses, as individuals or in groups, in making a contribution to their communities that also projects a positive image of critical care nursing.
This award recognizes broadcast and Web-based media excellence in the portrayal of healthcare providers, especially acute and critical care nurses, contributing to a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and families. Successful entries present relevant nursing and healthcare topics to large audiences of consumers, including the general public, patients and families.
Sponsored by AACN Certification Corporation, this award recognizes contributions that support and foster the advancement of certified nursing practice in critical care.
Sponsored by Datascope, these awards honor innovative contributions to collaborative practice by nurses who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families.
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Sponsored by Baxter Healthcare, this award recognizes patient-care teams that have made significant contributions toward patient and caregiver safety in acute and critical care.
This award recognizes nurses whose caring practices embody AACN's vision of a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and families. Recipients demonstrate how they have encompassed AACN's values and ethic of care in their practice.
Sponsored by 3M Health Care, this award recognizes acute and critical care nurses who embody, exemplify and excel at the clinical skills and principles required in their practice.
This award is designed to recognize excellence in the care of acutely and critically ill patients in environments outside the traditional ICU/CCU setting. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, nurses working in home healthcare, progressive care, telemetry, catheterization labs and emergency departments.
The award recognizes CCNS-certified clinical nurse specialists in acute and critical care. Applicants must demonstrate the key components of advanced practice nursing and illustrate how they have been a catalyst for successful change.
This award recognizes acute and critical care nurses who function as nurse practitioners. In addition to demonstrating the key components of advanced practice nursing, recipients illustrate how they have served as a catalyst for successful change.
This award recognizes nurse researchers or nurse led collaborative research teams that are furthering the mission, vision, and values of AACN in the acute and critical care setting.
This award recognizes chapters that exemplify collaboration in any aspect of the chapter's operations while actively supporting AACN's mission, vision, and values.
This award recognizes excellence in chapter leadership development and succession planning while actively supporting AACN's mission, vision, and values.
This award recognizes chapters that have made an outstanding public service contribution in their local community through community education and involvement while actively supporting AACN's mission, vision, and values.
This award recognizes chapters that have done an outstanding job in providing quality educational programming to their members and other constituents while actively supporting AACN's mission, vision, and values.
This award was established to recognize contributions that support and foster the development of certified nursing practice in acute and/or critical care.
This award recognizes the chapters that best exemplify the theme of AACN's president.
