The AORN awards for outstanding acc...

The AORN awards for outstanding accomplishments during the past year will be at handed during Congress at the Awards Dinner to be held Saturday, April 20 at 6:30 PM at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Calif. For more information regarding the dinner, please view "Congress Highlights" in this issue of the Journal. Recipients of individual outstanding achievement, chapter, and writers awards will be recognized.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The outstanding achievement awards this year recognize

* Cynthia C quick RN, MSN, MA, CNOR--Award for eminence in Perioperative Nursing;

* Lauralee s Krabill, RN, BSN, MBA, CNOR, C--Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Academic Nursing Education;

* Sister Gertrude O'Connor, RN M MSN CNOR--Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Nursing Education;

* Deborah A. Alpers, RN M MBA, CNOR, CNA--Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Management; and

* Florence T Wilson, RN CNOR--Outstanding Achievement in Mentorship.

For more information about these awards, please contact Lorrie Briggs, director of membership disentanglement at (800) 755-2676 x 367 or by way of e-mail at lbriggs@aorn.org.

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

For the 2002 Congres members of the Membership, Legislative, and Research Committees and the National Committee in succession Education selected five categories for chapters to struggle in for the Chapter of the Year Awards. These categories include membership, research, newsletter outstanding achievement in continuing education, and legislative. Committee members solicited chapters to completed individual surveys, scored the overlooks and submitted the point scores to the Awards Committee. Members of the Awards Committee collated and evaluated points and used composite points to determine the award recipients. Chapter of the Year Awards recognize winners in each chapter size category (ie, small, medium, intermediate, large). Each category may have a gold silver, and brass winner. A chapter may be the recipient of the Chapter of the Year Award (ie, gold) in its size category barely once every three years; however, chapters may be picked for silver or bronze awards in consecutive years. For more information forward these awards, contact Lorrie Briggs, director of membership exhibition at (800) 755-2676 x 367 or at e-mail at lbriggs@aorn.org.

WRITERS strive to hold AWARDS

The Writers struggle to defend Awards recognize authors of quality AORN Journal articles. There are four categories for this contest--clinical/ambulatory, research, education, and management. At least common author of a manuscript must be an AORN member for the article to be considered for an award. All AORN Journal articles that suited this requirement and are published during the calendar year preceding Congres are eligible for the contest

Winning articles in each category are chosen based upon points awarded to the articles by the agency of Journal editors, Editorial Board members, and independent connoisseurs Winners share award money provided through Ethicon, Inc. Each winner of the Writers contend against also receives a certificate of achievement.

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