Nursing Excellence Awards
Click here to see our list of nominees and recipients for 2025!
2025 Nursing Excellence Award Nominations have closed!
Still want to recognize a colleague who goes above & beyond?
Nominate them for a DAISY or BEE Award anytime!
Nursing Excellence Awards
(click each link to view criteria)
- Beginning Practitioner of the Year
- Exemplary Clinical Practice
- Excellence in Relationship-Based Caring
- Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing
- Excellence in Knowledge Development and Expansion
- Licensed Practical Nurse of the Year
- Nurse of Distinction
- Preceptor of the Year
- Transformational Leader
Interprofessional Partnership Awards
(click each link to view criteria)
Nominations for Other Nursing Honors:
- The Eloise Dodge Gould Pediatric Nurse Education Award (Any UVA Children's Medical Center staff may nominate a UVA Children's Medical Center RN) - apply here.
- The Thomas Buckley Memorial Endowment Fund for NICU Nursing Education
(application process open to UVA NICU and NETS nurses and nurse practitioners) - apply here until April 7.
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Links below are deactivated, as the 2025 Nomination period has closed.
Beginning Practitioner of the Year
Exemplary Clinical Practice
Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing
Excellence in Interprofessional Collaboration
Excellence in Knowledge Development and Expansion
Excellence in Relationship-Based Caring
Licensed Practical Nurse of the Year
Nurse of Distinction
Preceptor of the Year
Transformational Leader
Edited by:
Jenny Ernest
Updated:
May 14, 2025