Australian Nurse of the Year
The Australian Nurse of the Year Award was created to honour and showcase excellence in the nursing profession throughout Australia. It has become recognised as the highest civilian accolade for a nurse in Australia. There were 360,505 nurses registered to practice in Australia in 2014.[1]
The award was established in 2003 to 2004 to recognise the exceptional contributions the recipient has made to improving care and outcomes for patients, providing excellent care in the face of adversity or other challenges, or for an outstanding act of kindness, understanding, compassion or courage, above and beyond the normal role as a nurse anywhere in Australia.
A judging panel of nationally recognised nursing experts assesses the top individual nominees and selects a nurse from each of Australia's states and territories. Each state or territory finalist is flown to a state capital (the place of ceremony is changed each year), where the winner is announced at a formal ceremony. In recent years, other categories of awards have been added. These are for an Outstanding Graduate and another is for Team Innovation.
Although the award is not associated with the Australian government-run Australian of the Year awards, it has been sponsored by various organisations and companies each year, including the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, The College of Nursing (Australia), Elsevier Medical Publications, the Australian Nursing Federation, Nursing Review, Laerdal, ME Bank and other businesses. From their inception in 2004 the awards were hosted by Healthstaff Recruitment, and since 2007 by HESTA.
The awards attract wide coverage from media, culminating in a national presentation held each year, usually on or close to, 12 May, International Nurses' Day.
Past winners
- 2004 Andrew Cameron OAM of Cue, Western Australia[2]
- 2005 Catriona Chardon of Lismore, New South Wales (posthumously)[3]
- 2006 Rosanne Squire of McLeans Ridge, New South Wales[4]
- 2007 Robyn Williams of Wynnum, Queensland[5]
- 2008 Sam Gibson of Subiaco, Western Australia[6]
- 2009 Lyn Olsen of Dandenong, Victoria[7]
- 2010 Charlotte Collins of Trigg, Western Australia[8]
- 2011 Paul Esplin of Sydney, New South Wales[9]
- 2012 Jenny Anderson of Rockhampton, Queensland[10]
- 2013 Sara Lohmeyer of Perth, Western Australia[11]
- 2014 Steve Brown of Melbourne, Victoria[12]
- 2015 Catrin Dittmar of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales[13]
- 2016 Angie Monk of Joondalup, Western Australia[14]
References
- ↑ "Nurse and Midwife - Registration Data - March 2014".
- ↑ "Australian Nursing Awards 2005 - 2004 Awards". Healthstaffrecruitment.com.au. 12 May 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ↑ "Australian Nursing Awards 2005 Winners". Healthstaffrecruitment.com.au. 11 May 2005. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ↑ "Australian Nursing Awards 2006". Healthstaffrecruitment.com.au. 8 May 2006. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ↑ "Awards seek our brightest, best nurses". 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ↑ "National "Hesta Nurse of the Year"". 2008-07-01. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ↑ "Midwife "simply the best"". 2009-05-18. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ↑ "Australia's top nurses named in 2010 HESTA Awards". 14 May 2010. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ↑ "Missionbeat nurse wins Nurse of the Year Award - Mission Australia". 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
- ↑ "Nurse of the Year: Jenny Anderson from Rockhampton". 14 May 2012. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
- ↑ "NoY-Winner-MR-Sara-Lohmeyer" (PDF). 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
- ↑ "Victorian mental health nurse receives top national nursing award" (PDF). 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ "Local nurse named 2015 Australian nurse of the year after April super storm". 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ↑ "Winners of National Nursing Wards Announced" (PDF). 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2016-05-13.