2025 NCENA Award Nominations - Apply/Nominate by September 15!
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2025 NCENA Award Nomination Forms
Applications are due September 15, 2025
Every year, the NCENA accepts applications for awards to recognize emergency nurses from across the state that have made an impact on the profession. These individuals are recognized by their peers through the nomination process and selection by a committee. The applications for these prestigious awards are below.
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award honors a nurse whose career achievements reflect dedicated service, accomplishments and/or contributions to emergency nursing that have value to emergency nursing beyond the recipient’s lifetime.
Nursing Practice & Professionalism Award
This award recognizes a nurse who exemplifies outstanding nursing practice as demonstrated through clinical skills, care and compassion. This nurse is recognized as an expert in emergency nursing and consistently exhibits traits associated with professional behavior and commitment to professional values. This individual may demonstrate outstanding commitment to a specialty population such as pediatrics or older adults within the specialty of emergency nursing.
Nurse Manager Award
This award recognizes a nurse in an emergency nursing management role who has consistently demonstrated excellence in the profession of emergency nursing and has made significant contributions.
Pediatric Readiness Award
This award recognizes a nurse who demonstrated outstanding efforts to improve readiness in caring for children in the emergency care setting. This nurse is recognized by peers as an expert in pediatric emergency nursing and consistently exhibits traits associated with professional behavior and commitment to professional values.
Behind the Scenes Award
This award recognizes a North Carolina Emergency Nurses Association (NCENA) member who has made significant contributions, behind the scenes, to the promote NCENA’s mission of advocating for patient safety and excellence in emergency nursing practice through their support of ENA member(s). This member acts as an NCENA advocate who is often seen, but not heard, and who donates countless hours to assist ENA member(s) in achieving state or chapter goals.
Rising Star Award
This award recognizes a new North Carolina Emergency Nurses Association (NCENA) member (member less than 5 years at the time of nomination) who has made a significant contribution to NCENA as exhibited by the promotion of ENA as the professional organization for emergency nurses at the state and chapter level.