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2023 ANA Innovation Awards

The ANA Innovation Awards highlight, recognize, and celebrate nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety outcomes. Awards will be presented to a nurse and a nurse-led team whose product, program, project, or practice best exemplify nurse-led innovation in patient safety and/or outcomes.

2023 Innovation Award Applications

The application cycle for 2023 is now closed. All eligible applications are now moving forward for peer review.

It’s time for you to be your most gusty self yet and take a chance on your ideas. One nurse and one nurse-led team will win. This opportunity is open to every nurse, but you must apply to win. These awards are sponsored by Stryker.

Application Submissions Open: June 1 - November 4, 2022.

The Innovation Award Categories Include:

Care Delivery Models
Medical Device or Product
Educational Interventions
New Business, Program, or Service
Research
Technology

Go ahead and apply early—there’s no need to wait. Winners for 2023 will be notified this November. The 2022 ANA Innovation Awards offer a $25,000 individual award and a $50,000 team award. The rules and FAQs can be found once opening the application link.

Need inspiration? Check out the videos of past winners below.

Do you have questions about the application process? Are you wondering if you should apply or if your work qualifies for one of the categories? Join our “Innovation Award Office Hours” to chat in person!

July 21 (3:00-4:00 EST)
August 18 (3:00-4:00 EST)
September 15 (3:00-4:00 EST)
October 20 (3:00-4:00 EST)

Zoom code (729461) + Zoom link: https://ana-nursingknowledge.zoom.us/s/89247241648

Apply today

Thank you to our sponsor Stryker for their support of nursing innovation!

2022 ANA Innovation Award Winners

2022 - Winner of the Individual Nurse Award

KaSheta Johnson Jackson, DNP, RN, Vice President, Health Equity and Social Impact at Vidant Health

Kasheta Jackson developed Community Pop-Ups: A Rural Approach an innovative health care delivery model implemented as community-based pop-up clinics across Eastern North Carolina to address social and economic barriers to health care. This program is making health care both more accessible and approachable by directly providing preventative services, improving health care equity, and offering resources within communities with the greatest need. Through partnerships with community leaders, these clinics have evolved from solely offering health care screenings to providing COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, mental health resources, access to fresh produce, and employment opportunities. Community Pop-Ups have been held in a variety of informal community settings including baseball fields, farms, and parks to build trust and improve community engagement. Designed and led by nurses, Community Pop-Ups follows the tenets of a holistic nursing care plan, addressing the community’s physical, mental, and environmental needs.

2022 - Winners of the Nurse-Led Team

Michael Pickett, MSN, APRN, CPNP, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Texas Children's Hospital
Marilyn Hockenberry, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Global HOPE Nursing at Baylor College of Medicine
Jaime Choate, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, Nursing Professional Development Specialist at Texas Children's Hospital
Jeannie Eggers, MSN, RN, CPN, CCRN, Simulation Education Specialist at Texas Children’s Hospital
Tadala Mulemba, BscNM, RN – Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Ministry of Health, Malawi

Michael Pickett Marilyn Hockenberry Jaime Choate Jeannie Eggers Tadala Mulemba

The RediStik® Wearable Simulation Task Trainers were developed by a multidisciplinary team of frontline nurses. They identified educational gaps in the lack of realistic, versatile, and engaging training tools for nurses to learn skills in peripheral intravenous (PIV), Port-a-Cath and Central Venous Catheter (CVC) care and maintenance. Nurses and other health care professionals are trained to insert peripheral and central venous catheters to administer fluids, draw blood, and deliver medications. The RediStik® innovation offers nurses the opportunity to have hands on practice while receiving real-time feedback from instructors via zoom. Nurses have access to a system of individual and wearable simulation trainers as well as immersive skills videos filmed from the nurses’ point of view, which are accessible on YouTube® and through a QR code found on the RediStik® Kits. The RediStik® Wearable Simulation Task Trainer project exceeded initial design goals and has proven to be an asset to the nursing community, according to survey data.