The AORN awards for outstanding acc...

The AORN awards for outstanding accomplishments during the past year will be existinged at the Awards Dinner Saturday, April 1 from 6:30 to 10 PM at the 2000 Congres in modern Orleans. Recipients of individual outstanding achievement, chapter, and writers awards will be recognized.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The outstanding achievement awards this year recognize

* Sherron Kurtz RN MSA, CNOR, CNAA, Award for advantage in Perioperative Nursing;

* Patricia A. Thornton, RN BSN CNOR, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Nursing Education;

* Gabriele Inbar-Metrokin, RN M CNOR, and Barbara Trattler, RN MPA, CNOR, CNA, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Management; and

* Suzanne Alfano Elliott, RN CNOR, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Patient Education.

For more information about the outstanding achievement awards, please contact Susanne Whitmer, RN CNOR, chair of the Awards Committee, or Pat Niederlitz, staff consultant, at (800) 755-2676 x 243

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

For the 2000 Congres members of the Membership, Legislative, and Research Committees and the National Committee forward Education selected five categories for chapters to be rivals in for the Chapter of the Year Awards. These committee members solicited chapters to undiminished individual surveys, scored the individual reviews and submitted the point scores to the Awards Committee. The points are collated and evaluated by way of members of the Awards Committee, who use the composite points to determine the overall 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 merely once every three years; however, chapters may be selecteded for the silver or brown color awards in consecutive years.

PRESIDENT'S AWARD

The President's Award for 2000 will be given for the greatest in number creative and effective activity that demonstrates in what manner chapters and specialty assemblies meditate Partners in Care, 50 Years of Magic by way of promoting efforts to increase the ranks of perioperative nursing. Award packets for the President's Award were included in chapter president mailings in August and October. Deadline for submission to Headquarters was Jan 7 2000

MEMBERSHIP AWARDS

Four membership awards are existinged each year. One chapter from each size category (ie, small, medium, intermediate, large) receives a commemorative token to recognize its outstanding activities. All chapters, regardless of size, are eligible for these awards. Selection criteria for winners are based forward factors such as chapter management, membership marketing strategies, and chapter services. Winners are chosen through the Membership Committee.

Information is obtained by means of responses to a questionnaire regarding chapter activities and achievements from July 1 to June 30 Chapter presidents receive the questionnaires at the finis of the fiscal year. The deadline for returning them to Headquarters is Oct 1 each year.

CHAPTER NEWSLETTER AWARDS

Four awards (one in each size category) are neared to recognize outstanding achievement in newsletter satisfaction and design. To be eligible for this award, chapter leaders must submit a newsletter that was printed between July 1 and June 30 before the deadline of Oct 1 each year. Winners are chosen on the Membership Committee.

CHAPTER RESEARCH AWARDS

The Chapter Research Awards are designed to recognize and congratulate chapters for their research activities during the past year. overlook information is solicited from each chapter, and the be the effects are scored according to predetermined criteria. Chapter scrutinizes are due back to the Nursing Research Committee at Oct 1 each year. The chapters scoring the highest number of points in each of the four chapter size categories receive a commemorative Chapter Research Award. The awards remain with the chapters as recognition of the chapters' nursing research activities.

AORN LEGISLATIVE AWARDS

The AORN Legislative Awards are readyed to chapters in designated geographic areas that demonstrate dedicated involvement in supporting perioperative nursing in the legislative or regulatory arena. Selection of award winners is based forward total points from surveys sent to chapter presidents in the spring. observes are due back to the Legislative Committee at Oct 1 each year, and Committee members tally the measure and estimate points to determine award winners.

Chapters that win an AORN Legislative Award are readyed commemorative plaques in recognition of outstanding legislative involvement. Winning chapters also receive certificates of achievement that contribute to as tangible reminders of the importance of ongoing communication between AORN chapters and the legislative or regulatory arenas at the local, state, and federal levels

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CONTINUING EDUCATION

The Continuing Education Approval Committee is sponsoring the AORN Chapter Continuing Education Award. The award recognizes chapters that have demonstrated their commitment to quality continuing education for perioperative succors through creative, informative, relevant, and innovative activities approved at AORN. Approved activities presented between July 1 1998 and June 30 1999 are eligible. Selection criteria is based forward chapters' descriptions of the impact of their activities. The committee single outs winners from four categories based upon chapter size. Award recipients will be recognized by way of press releases to newspapers of the winners' choice and will receive achievement certificates.