Nominations Sought for the Carol E. Franck Nursing Leadership Award

College of Nursing at Michigan State University
seeks nominations for the Carol E. Franck Nursing Leadership Award

The Carol E. Franck Nursing Leadership Award continues to advance Carol’s work as a leader and lifelong advocate for the profession of nursing. By honoring nurses who have taken an active role in representing nursing and nurses to a wider public, the Carol E. Franck Nursing Leadership Award focuses on advocacy as a critical element of nursing leadership.

Examples of advocacy initiatives that could be honored with this award are:
· Advocacy for nurses as significant providers of cost-effective healthcare.
· Advocacy for a critical nursing initiative within the workplace.
· Advocacy for addressing some significant healthcare need within the community.
· Advocacy for nursing, nurses, or healthcare to policy makers.

Recipients will receive a cash award to enhance their personal library, to enable participation in a chosen leadership conference or event, or as seed capital for a nursing leadership project.

Criteria for the award are that the nominee:
· Has represented nurses and/or nursing issues to policy makers or to the larger community.
· Demonstrates persistence in advancing the issue(s).
· Demonstrates the ability to negotiate and compromise as those characteristics become useful in forwarding the issue(s).
· Involves other nurses individually and within organized nursing to become engaged in advocacy initiatives.
· Is recognized by community leaders, other professionals and/or policy makers as a nursing
advocate.

Nomination Selection Procedures:
1. Nominations are submitted by nurses from Michigan. All nominations must be submitted using the on-line nomination form.
2. Each nominee must provide written consent at the time of the nomination in order to be
considered a candidate for this award.
3. The originator(s) of each nomination must supply current biographical data or curriculum vitae of the nominee. It should include information on (a) national, state, and/or local activity within organized nursing; and (b) other leadership activities.
4. The originator(s) of each nomination must provide a narrative statement detailing the
accomplishments of the nominee. The statements should describe the nominee’s compliance with the established criteria for the award as explicitly and concisely as possible.
5. The originator(s) of each nomination may supply letters of support describing how the nominee meets award criteria. No more than two letters of support will be considered.
6. Only the requested materials above will be considered and held confidential.
7. Members of the selection committee are not eligible to receive this award during the period in which they served.
8. The deadline for submission of nominations for this award is July 1, 2008. Nominations postmarked after that date will not be considered for the 2008 award cycle.

The Award Selection Committee will review all nominations and the recipient(s) will be announced at the college's Scholarship and Awards Ceremony that will be held on October 17, 2008.