2024 Professional Development Award Applications
Deadline for 2024 Professional Development Award Applications is February 10th, 2024
Advanced Practice Nurse Award: Click Here
This award recognizes excellence as an advanced practice nurse in an emergency care setting. Recipients will be recognized by their peers, nursing and/or physician colleagues, and/or patients as clinical experts who deliver compassionate care in an emergency care setting. Recipients will be actively involved in promoting the role and strengthening emergency nursing.
Behind the Scenes Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions behind the scenes to promote NJENA’s mission of advocating for patient safety and excellence in nursing practice through their support of a member or members. This person is an NJENA advocate who is often seen but not heard and who donates countless hours to assist in achieving our goals.
Clinical Nurse Leadership Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who has consistently demonstrated excellence in the profession of emergency nursing and has made significant contributions through an emergency nursing management role. At least one letter of support must be from a nurse or nurses that the nominee supervises.
Crisis Response Team Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an emergency department healthcare team who has risen above-and-beyond to achieve ENA’s mission by responding to the challenges of working during a crisis situation (natural or man-made disasters, public health crisis).
Emerging Professional Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a new ENA member (membership less than 5 years) who has made significant contributions to ENA and/or NJENA as exhibited by involvement at chapter, state and/or national levels, lighting the way for the future of emergency nursing. One of the letters of support must be from the nominee’s State or Chapter President.
JEANETTE ASH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Click Here
This award, named after one of our NJENA founders, honors a member of NJENA who has consistently demonstrated excellence in emergency nursing and has made significant lifetime contributions to the profession and to NJENA. The award honors a nurse whose career achievements reflect dedicated service, accomplishments and/or contributions to emergency nursing that have value to emergency nursing beyond the recipient’s lifetime.
Nurse Research Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual nurse who has made significant contributions to the profession of emergency nursing by conducting research, disseminating research findings or using research to improve outcomes.
Nursing Competency in Elder Care Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a NJENA nurse who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the care of the older adult in an emergency care setting.
Nursing Education Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who has made significant contributions to the education of colleagues, nursing students, EMS personnel, patients, families or the community through the publication of articles, formal or informal courses, or the development of a specific emergency nursing program or curriculum.
Nursing Practice and Professionalism Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who exemplifies outstanding emergency nursing practice as demonstrated through clinical skills, care and compassion. This nurse consistently performs above and beyond the requirements of the job description in delivering quality care to patients, and participates in nursing programs, committees, or projects contributing to emergency nursing practice. The nurse is an expert in emergency nursing who consistently exhibits traits associated with professional behavior and commitment to professional values. The individual must be active within the profession and influences emergency nursing through interaction with other professionals, the media or the public. This individual may demonstrate outstanding commitment to a to a specialty population such as pediatrics or older adults within the specialty of emergency nursing.
Pediatric Readiness Improvement Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a NJENA nurse who has demonstrated outstanding efforts to improve readiness in caring for children in the emergency care setting.
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual nurse who has developed and implemented, or advocated for innovative quality, safety or injury prevention initiatives in the emergency care setting.
Team Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a group that has made a significant contribution towards achieving the mission of ENA through a project or development of a sustainable program.
2024 NJENA Professional Development Committee:
Elizabeth (Beth) McFarland - Chair
Brenda Braun
Barbara Conicello
Dana Kemery
Bill Miller
Pat Nierstedt
Jackie Wynkoop