Search for nation’s ‘best nurse’ begins
Are you Australia’s best nurse – or perhaps you know who is? Communities across Australia have been asked to identify their best nurses as nominations open for the 2012 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards. HESTA chief executive, Anne-Marie Corboy, tells DPS News “nursing professionals don’t always get the recognition they deserve”.
Are you Australia’s best nurse – or perhaps you know who is? Communities across Australia have been asked to identify their best nurses as nominations open for the 2012 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards.
Recognising some of the nation’s most exceptional nurses, midwives, personal care attendants and assistants in nursing from across the country, HESTA chief executive, Anne-Marie Corboy, tells DPS News “nursing professionals don’t always get the recognition they deserve”.
A $30,000 prize pool will be divided between three winners in the categories of Nurse of the Year, Innovation in Nursing and Graduate Nurse of the Year.
The 2012 prizes, provided by sponsor ME Bank, are:
- Nurse of the year – $5,000 travel voucher and $5,000 education grant
- Innovation in Nursing – $10,000 development grant; and
- Graduate Nurse of the Year – $5,000 travel voucher and $5,000 education grant
Each year HESTA is “inundated with nominations as Ms Corboy says the awards are an opportunity to “thank those outstanding nurses and recognise their invaluable contribution to our community”.
“Whether it is a one-off deed, or an ongoing commitment to the industry and patients, the awards recognise people who make a real difference,” she adds.
All members of the public and health sector are invited to nominate a potential Nurse of the Year. Nominations for Graduate Nurse of the year must come from graduate nurse coordinators, while ground-breaking nurses and nursing teams are encouraged to apply for
the Innovation in Nursing prize.
Nominations close next Wednesday (29 February 2012). Finalists will be announced in April and interstate finalists will be flown to Melbourne for the gala awards ceremony on Thursday, 10 May.
To make a nomination or learn more about the awards, click here.
