NLN Wins Top Honors in Prestigious Awards for Professional Communications
NLN Wins Top Honors in Prestigious Awards for Professional Communications
2025 Hermes Creative Awards & AVA Digital Awards Recognize Outstanding Communications Across Multiple Platforms
Washington, DC – The National League for Nursing proudly announces multiple winners in the Hermes Creative Awards and first-time winners of honors in the AVA Digital Awards.
The League earned a Hermes Platinum Award, the highest level, in the category of Podcast Series for NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted. Kellie Bryant, director of the NLN Center for Innovation in Education Excellence; Andrea Browning, portfolio manager; and Raquel Bertiz, senior manager, made possible this special achievement, along with India West, digital marketing manager, who completed a comprehensive redesign of the podcast website. Nursing EDge Unscripted also received an Honorable Mention from the AVA Digital Awards, for a well-deserved dual win this year.
Both Hermes and AVA Digital presented the League with Gold Awards. AVA Digital’s Gold Award in the E-Newsletter category honored CNEA Corner, a monthly publication of the NLN Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation. The e-newsletter was expertly designed by West, with content by Ann Marie Watson, marketing and communications manager, and Dr. Jennifer Chicca, CNEA deputy director. Hermes also awarded CNEA Corner an Honorable Mention in the E-Newsletter category, posting a second dual win.
Hermes selected three other nominees as Gold Award recipients:
- The NLN 2024 Summit App in the Mobile App category, led and implemented by Watson, with graphics by West and content provided by staff in the Programs and Events departments.
- Focus on NLN 4-Day Work Week in the Television Placement category, recognizing a nationwide broadcast segment on Spectrum News. The report aired interviews with NLN President and CEO Dr. Beverly Malone and Membership Data Coordinator Kathy Young.
- Nurse Practitioners Provide Safe, Reliable Care to Millions of Americans in the Media Response category, honoring the League’s statement responding to a Bloomberg Businessweek story about nurse practitioners’ growing role in U.S. health care.
A Hermes Honorable Mention went to Four-Day Flex Workweek: A Win-Win for Nursing Association and Its Staff, by Media Consultant Jane Rosen and Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Keaton with contributions from multiple staff members, in the category of Online Placement for the feature story published online by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). AVA Digital also selected the League for an Honorable Mention for NLN.org in the Nonprofit Website category.
“Creative and impactful communications are vital to achieving the National League for Nursing’s mission of advancing excellence in nursing education for the benefit of national and global health care. Our congratulations to the Communications team as well as to the leaders and staff across the association on the impressive success demonstrated by these awards,” said NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio.
“The Hermes Creative and AVA Digital Awards reflect the immense and broad talents of the National League for Nursing’s communications and content professionals, working together in a wonderfully collaborative spirit. Our messages are essential to nursing education while promoting greater dialogue in the public square,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN.
For more information about the NLN, including other NLN accolades, visit NLN.org.
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About the National League for Nursing
Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,000 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.