Criteria for selection for recognition
The contemporary healthcare environment has an insistence on patient-centre care approach which is essentially based on collaboration, communication and team work. These values have a degree of correlation on how they nurse relates to both the patient and professional community. The Nurse of The Year Award will be based on five aspects that will be reviewed by a board comprised of key stakeholders within the facility. The award criteria selection will be based on the following five aspects;
Process improvement: The facility is in the process of adopting new methods with particular insistence of evidence-based practice. Nurses are expected to demonstrate a personal commitment towards utilization of available resources to promote evidence-based practice in serving patients.
Facility’s core values: The facility has a role in promoting safe and quality care while affording its workforce a suitable environment to perform optimally. Nurses are expected to help create this environment at a personal level through the way they relate to colleagues as well as their input and role in safeguarding the organizational policy and strategic plan.
Creativity and innovation: A nurse has to learn of the existing challenges within the organization and have a personal responsibility to seek solutions and alternatives not necessarily driven by the organization’s leadership, administration or management.
Improving the ‘self’: The nurse has to indicate the willingness to improve the self. This is based on how well they relate to others, share knowledge and skills with others, integrate new nurses and workforce into the fold and act as role models as well as recognizing the accomplishments of others privately or publicly.
Enhances the image of the organization: The nurse has to serve as an ambassador within and without the organization and they have to make extraordinary accomplishments that bring distinction and attention to the respective to the organization at one time or another.
