This award recognizes an assisted living nurse (must be a licensed practical or registered nurse) who demonstrates outstanding compassion, supervisory success, innovation, achievement, and capabilities in their provision of high quality resident-centered care in a service-oriented culture in an assisted living community.
Eligibility Criteria
Deadline for submissions: May 23, 2011
All licensed nurses must be employed by an NCAL member community in good standing at the time of the 
nomination. All nominees must meet the following criteria:
- Effectively communicates with family members, physicians, staff and other stakeholders about the needs of the resident.
- Serves as a mentor and role model to all frontline caregiving staff.
- Exhibits leadership, supervisory, and teamwork skills that are inherent in providing high quality care in the assisted living setting.
- Recognition by his/her subordinates as an exemplary leader and advocate of the elderly and staff in assisted living.
- Demonstrated success as a licensed nurse who successfully leads his/her community to deliver outstanding resident-centered care and achieves a heightened quality of life for assisted living residents.
- Displays integrity and a high standard of ethical behavior.
- Displays personal leadership and dedication to residents and staff.
- Demonstrates clinical leadership in resident care and staff oversight.
Each nomination should be accompanied by a copy of the nominee’s resume and an essay outlining how the nominee meets and demonstrates the criteria into his/her daily routine. Each essay should be no longer than 500 words in length.
Note: all activities demonstrated by the nominee and used in the nomination must have been performed in compliance with applicable state and federal labor laws.