Innovation Awards

Nurses are continuously innovating to address the needs and challenges across healthcare. The ANA Innovation Awards highlights, recognizes, and celebrates nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety and outcomes. Innovations fall into two categories – the creation of something new or an improvement upon something existing.

The Innovation Award categories include:

Care Delivery Models
Devices
Educational Interventions
New Business, Program, or Service
Process improvement
Research
Technology

Applicants have a chance to win a $25,000 individual nurse award and a $50,000 nurse-led team award. The 2022 Winners were announced February 16, 2022 https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/events/awards/.

Applications will open again June 1-November 4, 2022.

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