Leadership and Professionalism
Amy J. Berman Geriatric Nursing Leadership
The Amy J. Berman Geriatric Nursing Leadership Award is bestowed upon an individual who has contributed to collaborative practice through involvement in interprofessional teams and defined commitment to gerontological nursing. Sigma membership is required.
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Daniel J. Pesut Spirit of Renewal
The Daniel J. Pesut Spirit of Renewal Award is awarded to a nurse leader whose efforts to renew self and others exemplify purposeful reflection in practice, mindful understanding of human interrelationships, and display an appreciative, futuristic vision for the practice of nursing. Sigma membership is required.
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Dorothy Ford Buschmann Outstanding New Member Award
The Dorothy Ford Buschmann Outstanding New Member Award recognizes a member inducted between 1 March 2019 and 1 March 2024 whose nursing practice and contributions to their chapter have positively impacted Sigma, the chapter, and the nursing or healthcare profession.
Sigma membership is required.
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Excellence in Leadership, Mary Tolle Wright Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in leadership, impacting nursing through visionary and innovative approaches, and developing nursing leaders and leadership. Sigma membership is required.
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Excellence in Service, Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in service, celebrating voluntary service in projects that address global health disparities, healthcare, the nursing profession, and Sigma.
Sigma membership is required.
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Melanie C. Dreher Award for Outstanding Chapter Support
The Melanie C. Dreher Award for Outstanding Chapter Support recognizes the administrator and/or institution whose contributions in promoting Sigma's mission, vision, and goals have exceeded expectations, supporting the health and longevity of its Sigma chapter. All active Sigma chapters are eligible to submit a nomination.
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Virginia K. Saba Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
The Virginia K. Saba Nursing Informatics Leadership Award honors an individual for their innovative and cutting-edge work in nursing informatics. The work must have resulted in a significant development, sustained contributions to advance nursing informatics, and achieved a recognizable and momentous public benefit. Sigma membership is required.
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Nursing Practice
Audrey Hepburn Award for Contributions to the Health and Welfare of Children
The Audrey Hepburn Award for Contributions to the Health and Welfare of Children was established to honor Ms. Hepburn’s extraordinary work on behalf of children in need. This award is presented to a nurse who has made significant contributions to the health and well-being of children. Sigma membership is required.
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Excellence in Creativity & Innovation, Edith Moore Copeland Founders Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in creativity and innovation, displayed through collaboration, optimization of practice and academe environments, adoption of technology, and many other creative activities to impact nursing education, practice, or research. Sigma membership is required.
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Excellence in Nursing Practice, Marie Hippensteel Lingeman Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in nursing practice, celebrating an individual who fosters an environment that promotes and values questioning, data-based decision making, and synthesis of new knowledge to improve practice and clinical outcomes. Sigma membership is required.
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Helen Henry Excellence of Interprofessional Care
Established by Bonnie Wesorick, RN, MSN, in honor of her mother, the Helen Henry Excellence of Interprofessional Care Award recognizes nurses and their partners collaborating to provide care at the bedside. Any interprofessional team composed of a registered nurse with a baccalaureate degree and other health professionals is eligible.
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Lucie S. Kelly Mentor Award
The Lucie S. Kelly Mentor Award recognizes the influence that role models and mentors in the nursing profession have on the lives and careers of others. This mentor has had a significant impact of the career progression of nurse leaders and the nursing profession. Sigma membership is required.
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Research and Education
Episteme Award
The Baxter International Foundation’s Episteme Award is presented to a nurse scientist or team of nurse scientists for highly significant research, acknowledging a major breakthrough in nursing knowledge development that impacts the underserved in at least one of the following areas: relating to nutrition/malnutrition, clean water and sanitation, or diabetes prevention. The Episteme Laureate will be a plenary speaker at convention.
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Excellence in Research, Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Founders Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in research. Research should increase knowledge on a topic/issue, aiming to improve and/or transform health. Research should be available for use in clinical practice, education, administration, research, and/or public knowledge. Sigma membership is required.
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Research Dissertation Award
The Research Dissertation Award recognizes a nurse whose dissertation is exceptionally meritorious and exemplifies high standards of scholarship and knowledge development. The nominee is required to have completed (defended) a dissertation (or country equivalent) between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024.
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Excellence in Education, Elizabeth Russell Belford Award
This Founders Award recognizes extraordinary excellence in education, celebrating inclusive educational experience: nursing interprofessional, practice, community health, and/or public awareness Sigma membership is required.
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Communications
Capstone International Nursing Book Award
The Capstone International Nursing Book Award recognizes the excellence of an outstanding book published by nurses. Any nursing book published between 2 February 2023 and 1 February 2025 is eligible. The book must be published by close of eligibility period and submitted in English. Publishers, authors, or readers may submit a nomination.
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Creative Communications Award
The Creative Communication Award recognizes communicators, information specialists, photojournalists, and other creatives who pursue excellence in communicating nursing’s rich and diverse stories using print, film, television, digital media, art, or other types of communication. Materials must be produced between 1 March 2023 and 1 March 2025.
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