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APNA Award for Innovation - Individual

DESCRIPTION

The APNA Award for Innovation – Individual recognizes an APNA member who has developed and/or demonstrated a new, fresh approach to care through innovation in psychiatric-mental health nursing practice. The individual must have been a member of APNA for at least two years.


CRITERIA

  • Has developed and/or demonstrated a new approach to care through innovation in psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, such as a new role or setting for a psychiatric-mental health nurse, a new collaborative or care-delivery model, a new evidence-based therapeutic intervention, an innovative curriculum, course or education model.
  • Demonstrates the impact of the innovation after being in place for at least 1 year.

View past APNA Awards recipients here.