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Call for 2006 Award Nominations from the American Public Health Association
The Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association is calling for nominations for awards to be presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting. The Ruth B. Freeman Award honors a person who has had a distinguished career in public health service or education. The Public Health Nurse Creative Achievement Award is bestowed in recognition of an individual's creative contribution to public health nursing practice, research, education, or administration. The Lillian Wald Service Award is awarded to individuals, agencies, or media, for depicting exemplary public health nursing practice to the public, especially through political, legislative, professional, or interdisciplinary activism.
The deadline for submission of nomination materials is May 1, 2006. Nominees must be members of the American Public Health Association and primary members of the Public Health Nursing Section. The Awards Committee encourages nominations and is happy to answer questions regarding preparation of materials. For questions or to request nomination materials, please contact Susan Zahner, Chair of the APHA PHN Section Awards Committee, at the address or numbers listed below.
Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Nursing
H6/246 CSC
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2455
Telephone: 608-263-5282
FAX: 608-263-5332
Email: sjzahner@wisc.edu
Awards Criteria
Ruth B. Freeman Award
The nominee must have demonstrated a distinguished career, characterized by a continuing record of noteworthy accomplishment, in the field of public health nursing. Accomplishments may include constructive leadership in the organization of community-oriented services toward the betterment of human life, or may present a significant contribution in public health nursing education or research. The nominee must be a current member of the APHA, with primary membership in the PHN Section.
Public Health Nurse Creative Achievement Award
The nominee must have made a creative contribution to public health nursing either in practice, research, education, or administration by enhancing the quality of care delivered to individuals, families, or a community or by enhancing the professional status of public health nursing. The achievement, with a discussion of the outcomes of this creative endeavor, should have been publicly and professionally disseminated. Written documentation from at least one individual who can validate the creative contribution is required. The nominee’s potential for continuing achievement should also be addressed in letters of support. The nominee must be a current member of the APHA, with primary membership in the PHN Section.
Lillian Wald Service Award
Nominees for the Lillian Wald Service Award may include individuals, groups, or agencies that depict exemplary public health nursing practice to the public. Nominees must have demonstrated initiative and resourcefulness in developing efforts to improve the health of the public through political, legislative, or interdisciplinary activism. These noteworthy achievements represent a leadership role in promoting social reform activities for client groups, influencing health policy and health laws, strengthening public health nursing practice, and/or through collaborating with other health care workers, legislators, and public officials. Evidence of the nominee’s contributions must be validated in writing by at least one individual. At least one member of the group must be a member of APHA, with primary membership in the PHN Section.
—compiled by the editors of Minority Nurse
magazine
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