MNSA Awards 2009
Chapter Achievement Award
This $100 award will be considered based on the following:
- Number of MNSA/NSNA members attending the 2009 MNSA Convention
- Attendance at COSL.
- Increase of membership from the end of the previous MNSA Convention to 45 days prior to the upcoming MNSA Convention (February 6-8th, 2009)
- Special Projects: Your chapter must have at least one project in each of the following categories:
- Image/Breakthrough to Nursing
- Community Health
- Legislative Activities
- Publications of a newsletter article in Michigan Nurse and/or NurseTalk describing how you have seen or experienced nurses “Taking the Field” or tell us how you think nursing itself needs to “Take the Field”.
- Submission of a resolution at the 2009 MNSA Convention or the 2009 NSNA Convention
- Essay explaining why your local SNA chapter should be considered for the Chapter Achievement Award. (Up to 750 words typed and doubled spaced) Please write about how your chapter meets each of the above specifications. If you have not met all of them but feel that you have made significant strides, please tell us!
Outstanding Chapter President Award
A student representative of your local SNA chapter should submit an essay describing how their president demonstrates character and leadership. It should also describe how their service benefits his/her local SNA chapter and/or school of nursing, as well as other nursing students and programs in the state of Michigan. A letter of recommendation from a nursing instructor, dean, or director of nursing at your school should also be included. Nominees must also be a member of MNSA/NSNA. (Approximately 500 words typed and double-spaced.)
MNSA Faculty Advisor Award
This award will be presented to an SNA faculty advisor who has shown distinguished support and service to nursing students. MNSA constituent associations may nominate one person for the award. The nominee must be a member of a professional organization in order to be considered for this award (ANA, NLN, MNA etc.). A student representative of the chapter must submit an essay that describes how the nominee meets each of these criteria:
- Provides motivation and generation enthusiasm for SNA/MNSA/NSNA involvement
- Exhibits and teaches the importance of professional organizations and involvement after graduation
- Encourages students to continue their education and professional involvement after graduation
- Detailed explanation of how the author of the essay has benefited from knowing this nominee (Approximately 500 words typed and double-spaced)
MNSA Community Health Award
The Community Health award is granted to one Michigan SNA chapter based on their participation and activism in raising awareness on issues that influence the community. We want to hear about your SNAs community involvement. How have you helped your community throughout the year? The award will be granted to the SNA based on the amount of awareness raised, creativity of the project or projects, and the amount of participation among their own SNA members. Please include an essay, or pictures with captions, describing or documenting the process you took to develop your project along with what your SNA was able to achieve. (Approximately 500 words typed and double-spaced.)
Poster Award
The poster award will be based on the 2009 MNSA Convention theme: “Nurses Taking the Field”. It will be judged on content, quality, organization, clarity, creativity and effort.
MNSA Scrapbook Competition
The scrapbook should represent you local SNA chapters:
- Volunteer Projects
- Increased Membership
- Various Public Recognition (i.e.: newspaper articles, awards, thank you letters)
- Photographs of your chapters various other activities
- Neatness, presentation, and creativity are all important characteristics that the Board will look at in judging your SNA's scrapbook.
New MNSA Awards
Community Health Project Assistance
Do you have a great “true” Community Health project that you would like to complete but don’t have the money to do so? Well, this is the award for your SNA then! Here it is, brand new this year, the chance to take $1000 from MNSA to fund the project you’ve been dreaming of doing. It’s a challenge from the MNSA Board of Directors to every SNA to plan and execute a true community health project. Can you think “outside of the box”, go beyond community service and really contribute to a community in an effort to improve the health of that community?
Here’s what we need from you:
- Project plan outlined with detailed goals and steps to complete your project.
- A detailed preliminary project budget. Tell us exactly how you will apply the funds from MNSA and where you plan to get more funds if needed.
- A promise to document and present the steps from beginning to end at COSL in October of 2009.
MNSA will award $500 at Awards night during Convention 2009 and reimburse $500 at COSL 2009.
Please submit your plan in paragraph and outline form. The budget on a spreadsheet and your promise typed. Please include with your promise, how your project will benefit a community, whether it is a primary, secondary, or tertiary level of intervention, how you came to see the need and why it is important to you to complete this project.
Image & Breakthrough to Nursing Project Award
Has your SNA completed or initiated an Image & Breakthrough to Nursing project? We want to know:
- What you did.
- How you planned it.
- The steps you carried out to complete your project.
- How your project improved the image of nursing and contributed to the breakthrough and retention of new nurses.
Please submit a 500 word essay typed and double spaced for consideration of this award.
Please send all submissions to Melissa Johns at mnsa.image@gmail.com. Awards and Scholarships will be presented at the MNSA 2009 Convention Awards Banquet, Feb. 6-8th, 2009.
