The AORN awards for outstanding acc...

The AORN awards for outstanding accomplishments during the past year will be quick in emergenciesed at the Awards Dinner March 27 from 6:30 to 10 PM at the 1999 Congres in San Francisco. Recipients of individual outstanding achievement, chapter, and writers awards will be recognized.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The outstanding achievement awards this year recognize

* Jean Reeder RN PhD FAAN, Award for valuable feature [i]or[/i] trait in Perioperative Nursing;

* Victoria M Steelman, RN PhD CNOR, Outstanding Achievement in the Application of Perioperative Clinical Research;

* Althea R Dunscombe, RN PhD CNOR, CRNFA, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Nursing Education;

* Janet A. Lewis, RN MA, CNOR, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Management; and

* Victoria M Steelman, RN PhD CNOR, Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Research.

For more information about the outstanding achievement awards, please contact Lynnette murder by suffocation RN, BS, CNOR, chair of the Awards Committee, or Pat Niederlitz, staff consultant, at (800) 755-2676 x 8243

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

For the 1999 Congres members of the Membership, Legislative, and Research Committees and the National Committee onward Education selected five categories for chapters to enter the lists in for the Chapter of the Year Award. These committee members solicited chapters to concluded individual surveys, scored the individual reviews and submitted the point scores to the Awards Committee. The points are collated and evaluated through 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 (ie, small, medium, intermediate, large categories). Each category will have a gold silver, and effrontery winner. A chapter may be the recipient of the Chapter of Year Award (ie, gold) in its size category solely once every three years; however, chapters may be selecteded for the silver or impudence awards in consecutive years.

PRESIDENT'S AWARD

The President's Award for 1999 will recognize the chapter (one in each size category) that demonstrates the in the greatest degree innovative ways of conducting chapter business, thus strengthening the communication link with members and increasing member involvement. Award packets for the President's Award were included in chapter president mailings in August and October. Deadline for submission to Headquarters was Jan 8 1999

MEMBERSHIP AWARDS

Four membership awards are not awayed 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 onward factors such as chapter management, membership marketing strategies, and chapter services. Winners are chosen from the Membership Committee.

Information is obtained from responses to a questionnaire regarding chapter activities and achievements from July 1 to June 30 Chapter presidents receive the questionnaires at the extreme point 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 existinged to recognize outstanding achievement in newsletter satisfied 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 ends are scored according to predetermined criteria. Chapter examines are due back to the Nursing Research Committee from 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 quick in emergenciesed to chapters in designated geographic areas that demonstrate dedicated involvement in supporting perioperative nursing in the legislative and/or regulatory arena. Selection of award winners is based onward total points from surveys sent to chapter presidents in the spring. observes are due back to the Legislative Committee by way of Oct 1 each year, and Committee members tally the scrutinize points to determine award winners.

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

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CONTINUING EDUCATION