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The search is on to find the next RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2019

The Royal College of Nursing in Wales will be holding its 8th Annual RCN Wales Nurse of the Year Awards in City Hall, Cardiff. Finalists will be invited to the black-tie dinner and award ceremony on Wednesday, 13 November 2019 which is a fantastic evening for finalists, their colleagues, friends and family, as well as all those involved with the nursing family in Wales.

Nominations have now closed and shortlisting is currently taking place. 

Congratulations to all those who have been nominated!

#WalesNOTY2019

The following dates have been confirmed for the interview panels, successful candidates will be notified by the end of August 2019:

Friday 6 September 2019               Advanced and Specialist Nursing Award
Monday 9 September 2019           Improving Individual and Population Health Award
Monday 9 September 2019           Lifetime Achievement Award
Monday 9 September 2019           Suzanne Goodall Paediatric Nursing Award
Tuesday 10 September 2019         Mentorship Award
Wednesday 11 September 2019   Innovation in Nursing Award
Wednesday 11 September 2019   Primary Care Nursing Award
Monday 16 September 2019         Nurse Education Award
Tuesday 17 September 2019         Nursing Student Award
Tuesday 17 September 2019         Supporting Improvement Through Research Award
Wednesday 18 September 2019   Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Award
Thursday 19 September 2019       Community Nursing Award
Thursday 19 September 2019       Health Care Support Worker Award
Friday 20 September 2019             Chief Nursing Officer for Wales Award
Friday 20 September 2019             Registered Nurse (Adult) Award
Thursday 26 September 219          Children and Midwifery Award

Should any nominees have questions about the shortlisting process please contact NurseoftheYearAwards@rcn.org.uk

Advanced and Specialist Nursing

Sponsored by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

This award aims to recognise nurses undertaking advanced and specialist practice who make an outstanding contribution to patient care, including the introduction of changes that leads to innovative programmes of care.

Children and Midwifery

Sponsored by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

This award aims to recognise a Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Midwife who has made an outstanding contribution to care of children, young people or the midwifery care of mothers-to-be/ parent/s.


Chief Nursing Officer for Wales

Sponsored by Chief Nursing Officer for Wales, Welsh Government

This award will celebrate the contribution of an exceptional nursing or midwifery leader in Wales, who by inspiring others and demonstrating exceptional leadership, has made a significant difference to patient care.

Community Nursing

Sponsored by Hywel Dda University Health Board

This award celebrates the achievements of all registrants of the NMC register who have made an outstanding contribution to the care of people in a community-based setting.



Health Care Support Worker

Sponsored by Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee

This award is open to any Health Care Support Worker who is delegated work directly by a Registered Nurse in any setting, who has demonstrated commitment to providing high standards of nursing care.


Improving Individual and Population Health

Sponsored by Public Health Wales

This award aims to recognise a nurse or midwife who has made an outstanding contribution to improving individual and/or population health, including the introduction of changes that lead to innovative health improvement or health protection interventions or programmes.

Innovation in Nursing

Sponsored by Frontier Medical Group

This award aims to recognise a nurses or midwives who improve the care of people through innovation. Nominators should provide a clear narrative explaining why the nominee developed the innovation and how the change has improved the experience and outcome of care.


Lifetime Achievement

Sponsored by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

This award aims to recognise a truly exceptional Registered Nurse who is recognised as providing a lasting contribution to the nursing profession.

 



Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Sponsored by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

This award aims to recognise an exceptional Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse who has made an outstanding contribution to the care of individuals living with mental illness and/or learning disability.

Mentorship

Sponsored by University of South Wales and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

This award will be made to an outstanding Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife who demonstrates an innate understanding of the importance of good mentorship, supporting high quality learning environments, acts as a role model to and invests in existing and aspiring mentors, and who builds and maintains relationships to enable and support mentorship.

Primary Care Nursing

Sponsored by BMA Cymru

This award celebrates the achievements of Registered Nurses who have made an outstanding contribution to the care of people from a primary care perspective.

 



Suzanne Goodall Paediatric Nursing Award

Sponsored by Ty Hafan

This award aims to recognise a Registered Children's Nurse who has made an outstanding contribution to the care of children or young people with lifelong and/or life limiting illness.

Nurse Education

Sponsored by Swansea Bay University Health Board

This award recognises Registered Nurses who have made a significant difference to the development and/ or delivery of high quality education to those who deliver/ aim to deliver health care.

 

 




Registered Nurse (Adult)

Sponsored by Powys Teaching Health Board

This award aims to recognise a Registered Nurse who has made an outstanding contribution to the care of adults.

 



Read about our inspiring previous winners!

Meet our 2018 finalists and take a look at some of the photos from the RCN Wales Nurse of the Year Awards 2018 ceremony.

Read about our 2017 winners


Nursing Student

Sponsored by Health Education and Improvement Wales

This award aims to recognise Nursing/Midwifery students who have shown exceptional promise during their professional education and/or practice placements.

 

 




Supporting Improvement through Research

Sponsored by Cardiff University

This award aims to recognise and reward quality in nursing and midwifery research, which may be of a preliminary nature e.g pilot studies, clinical audit or service information.


Sponsors

Thank you to all our sponsors for supporting the RCN Wales Nurse of the Year Awards 2019



RCN Wales Nurse of the Year Alumni Network

Take a look at the Alumni Network.


Page last updated - 15/07/2019

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