Outstanding Emergency Department Nurse Leader of the Year

Call for Nominations for the Blue Jay Consulting/
Emergency Nurses Association Award for
Outstanding Emergency Department Nurse Leader of the Year

The Blue Jay Consulting/Emergency Nurses Association Award for Outstanding Emergency Department Nurse Leader of the Year will be presented February 28, 2013, in Fort Lauderdale, FL to a current emergency department nurse leader who has made, through collaboration with emergency medicine, a significant impact on improving the operations of his or her department resulting in improvements in the quality of patient care.

The Outstanding Emergency Department Nurse Leader of the Year Award is sponsored jointly by Blue Jay Consulting, a team of nationally recognized emergency department leaders who improve processes and provide enhanced interim leadership, and the Emergency Nurses Association.

Any member of the Emergency Nurses Association may nominate himself, herself or another member for this award. The leadership team of any hospital or health care system may nominate a member for this award. The nominee must be an active member of ENA and must currently be in a leadership position in an emergency department. The nominee must demonstrate significant contributions to the emergency department in the following categories:

1. Collaboration with emergency medicine
2. Quality patient care
3. Operational effectiveness
4. Education
5. Community service
6. Synergistic approach to leadership within the emergency department, hospital or hospital system.

The nominee must demonstrate collaborative relationships with emergency medicine and ancillary departments to implement and improve operational and clinical standards based on evidence-based practice. The nominee will create and sustain a high degree of patient satisfaction with emergency care delivery and will implement creative and innovative strategies to address emergency department throughput.

Nomination forms are available to download online at www.bluejayconsulting.com or click here.

Submit the nomination form, nominee's abbreviated curriculum vitae, and any supporting materials as a single PDF to: annualawards@ena.org Entries must be completed and received via e-mail no later than Monday, November 12, 2012, for consideration by the selection panel. Entries are to be limited to seven pages plus an abbreviated CV.

The selection panel will consist of appointees from ENA’s Awards Committee and two representatives from Blue Jay Consulting. The panel will judge the entries with its recommendations subject to ratification by the ENA board of directors. The decision of the board is final, and the board reserves the right to make no award if there are no nominees of sufficient merit. The awardee must be present at the ENA State and Chapter Leaders Conference on Thursday, February 28, 2013, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to receive the award. If the awardee is not scheduled to attend this conference, airfare and one night's hotel will be provided.

For more information about the Outstanding Emergency Department Nurse Leader of the Year Award, please visit the ENA Web site or contact Christine Siwik at 847-460-4044 or annualawards@ena.org.