2022-23 Nurse Recognition Award WINNERsRecognizing & Honoring Deserving Nurses Michigan has many nurses whose outstanding and heroic contributions should be recognized and honored and ANA-Michigan has established eight different awards to recognize excellence in Michigan nursing. Awards will be formally presented during the ANA-MI Annual Conference on a date to be determined in 2023. Awards were originally scheduled to be presented on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at the ANA-MI Annual Conference and Membership Assembly in Port Huron, MI. Due to extreme weather conditions, the conference and assembly have been postponed and rescheduled. Stay tuned for further details and information. |
Awards |
Dorothea Milbrandt Nurse Leader Award The Dorothea Milbrandt Nurse Award has been created to honor nurses who have demonstrated excellence in building successful mentoring relationships with other nurses and/or nursing students. This award is presented on behalf of the late Dorothea Milbrandt, RN, MPS, MSN, who had an important and lasting impact on nursing in Michigan for nearly 40 years. |
Friend of Nursing Award
The Friend of Nursing Award is conferred on a non-nurse who has rendered valuable assistance to the nursing profession. |
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual’s longstanding commitment to and profound impact on nursing. |
Public Policy Advocate Award
The Public Policy Advocate Award recognizes a nurse who has demonstrated success in using public policy and advocacy as strategies in advancing nursing in Michigan. |
Exceptional Promise Award
The Exceptional Promise Award aims to spotlight up to five (5) aspiring nursing students for their skills today and promise for tomorrow. |
Future Nurse Leader Award
The Future Nurse Leader Award is annually given yearly to a recent (within two years of graduation) nursing school (ADN, BSN) graduate who demonstrates great potential for leadership in the profession. |
Innovation Award
The Innovation Award will identify a health care organization (hospitals, public health departments, mental health facilities, etc.) for an innovative practice/approach which improves nursing and patient outcomes. |
Collaborative Practice Award
The Collaborative Practice Award will identify an interdisciplinary team that demonstrated a collaborative approach on a project which involved best practice(s) and resulted in improved patient outcomes or improvement to nursing practice. |
Past Award WinnersInnovation Award Collaborative Practice Award Lifetime Achievement Dorothea Milbrandt Nurse Leader Public Policy Advocate Nurse of the Year Friend of Nursing Honoring the Past Exceptional Promise Award Future Nurse Leader |