The ANA Innovation Awards—sponsored by Stryker—highlight, recognize, and celebrate nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety outcomes. Awards are presented to a nurse and a nurse-led team whose product, program, project, or practice best exemplify nurse-led innovation in patient safety and/or outcomes.
Innovation Award Applications
What impact can winning have on your innovation work? A lot according to our past winners. So why not take a chance on your ideas?
"Winning the ANA Innovation Award affirms the value of nursing ideas. It changed the way I thought about myself and nursing." Kathleen Puri, MS, RN, Co-Founder, Fitsi Health
"The ANA Innovation Award gave us the confidence and the funding to start Lavender, a nurse-led and operated psychiatry and therapy practice." Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC & Pritma Dhillon-Chatta, DNP, MHA, RN, Co-Founders, Lavender
"My hope is to inspire other nurses to lead through innovation and take a chance at creating solutions that represent your passion." Michael Pickett, MSN, APRN, CPNP, Co-Inventor, RediStik® Wearable Simulation Task Trainers