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- Leads through scholarly activities
- Contributes as a leader in nursing education
- Encourages creative interactions with students from diverse backgrounds
- Mentors and serves as role model for junior faculty.
- Publishes scholarly works that advance nursing education knowledge
- Is a member of the NLN
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- 2018: Greer Glazer, PhD, RN, CNP, FAAN
- 2017: Jean Foret Giddens, PhD, RN, FAAN
- 2016: Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF
- 2015: Donna Nickitas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FAAN
- 2014: Theresa M. “Terry” Valiga, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN, ANEF
- 2012: Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN;
Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, ANEF - 2010: Lin Zhan, PhD, RN, FAAN
- 2008 Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CNM, FAAN, FACNM
- 2006: Diane M. Billings, EdD, RN, FAAN
- 2004: M. Louise Fitzpatrick, EdD, RN, FAAN
- 2002: Lois Malasanos, PhD, RN
The NLN Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Practice
Isabel Adams Hampton was the head of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, wrote several influential textbooks, and helped to found the organizations that became known as the National League for Nursing, the International Council of Nurses, and the American Nurses Association.
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- Inspires passion for clinical nursing
- Promotes evidence-based practice by building practice-education partnerships
- Encourages clinical expertise and interprofessional practice
- Challenges students to expand their clinical knowledge base in new ways
- Conducts scholarly research to assess learning outcomes that improve patient care
- Fosters development of clinical reasoning in the culture of patient care
NLN Lillian Wald Humanitarian Award
Lillian D. Wald was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women’s, children’s, and civil rights; and the founder and first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Her unselfish devotion to humanity is recognized around the world and her visionary programs have been widely copied.
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- Meets the ethical responsibilities of the nursing profession in keeping with the NLN core values of caring, integrity, diversity, and excellence
- Improves the lives of those in need through selfless, courageous, creative, and compassionate acts
- Cares for others regardless of personal risk or compensation
- Embraces common moral decencies such as altruism, integrity, freedom, justice, honesty, truthfulness, responsibility, and compassion
- Respects and embraces human diversity