Nursing Excellence Awards

2027 Nursing Excellence Award Nominations will be open 12/1/26 - 1/12/27

Process:

• Nominations are accepted during a 6-week period. Current members of the Awards and Recognition Committee are not eligible to be award recipients. 
• Nomination exemplars must have a minimum of 2000 characters with spaces and include specific examples to be eligible. 
• Nominations are de-identified and assigned by category to committee members for voting.
• Committee members may not participate in the review and selection of a category that includes a nominee that is a co-worker or other relation that poses a conflict of interest. 
• The selection committee scores nominations and ranks them based on evidence provided within the nomination exemplar.
• Nursing Excellence Awards recognize University Medical Center-employed team members who have completed orientation for their role and are considered in good standing by their manager.
• Nominees are not eligible to be an Award Recipient for the same category two years in a row.
• Any language within nominations that disparages other individuals, teams, or departments will not be considered. 
• Award recipients are announced at a presentation event during National Nurses Week each year in May.

Eligibility Category Definitions:

• Direct care nurses: Unit based or SRO Wage, RN Clinician 2/3/4, Designated Charge Nurses, RN Navigator, RN Care Coordinator.
• Non-direct care nurses: Positions that require an RN license but are non-direct care and not in management/formal leadership (including interim capacity) positions.
  • These include but are not limited to roles such as Case Manager, CNL, RN Administrative Coordinators, etc.

Additional Information:

• Job profiles with temporary contracts, including Internal Travelers and Passport USA, are not eligible to be an award recipient.
• Employees who were previously in a temporary contracted job profile and have since converted to a permanent employment job profile may have their prior worked time considered to meet the specified eligibility requirement, barring no breaks in service.