The RMAC Surgical Patient Safety Award recognizes perioperative registered nurse leaders in the innovative field of patient safety, who have developed and/or described relevant and practical patient safety strategies.

The nomination period for the Awards is from Dec 1 to March 1.

Criteria

• Involve system innovations, advances in education, communications strategy, patient advocacy, or research focusing on safety-related outcomes in perioperative care
• Establishment of a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to safer care delivery
• Introduction of new technologies / innovative practices that improve patient and/or clinician safety
• Adoption of a comprehensive approach to program implementation (examples may include process metrics, patient-reported outcomes, performance indicators, educational components, benchmarking, and system-wide implementation)
• Evidence that patient and healthcare worker safety is improved
• Project/process improvements should apply to perioperative care

Nomination Selection Process

Poster/Paper Presenter(s) at a National Conference must be a member(s) of ORNAC and have submitted an abstract and biography to the ORNAC National Conference Planning Committee.

ORNAC Journal article(s) eligibility shall be determined by the Awards Committee prior to the ORNAC National Conference via article review of relevant articles published in the two (2) calendar years preceding the National Conference where the Award shall be presented.

Recognition & Reimbursement

The Award is presented at the closing ceremonies of the National Conference when there is an appropriate nominee. The Award is funded by RMAC.

For full details of the award criteria, please click here.

Nominations

To nominate an ORNAC member for this award, please click here.