Enhancing Community: Alumnus Award
This award recognizes a UCalgary Nursing graduate whose professional achievements in their field and outstanding personal accomplishments have sparked positive change in the health system through patient care, research or health-care-related services. Their connection and collaboration with the community has been inspirational.
Nomination Process
Nominations are welcomed from anyone within or outside the Faculty of Nursing. The nominee must be a graduate of the Faculty of Nursing (undergrad or graduate or both) and agree to the nomination. A completed nomination form must be accompanied by one signed letter of reference and speak directly to the criteria. The letter may be from the nominator.
Only completed nominations will be accepted (see the nomination form for details). If your nomination is missing any of the supporting documentation, it will be returned to you for completion if there is time.
Use Criteria with Examples
We strongly encourage you to explicitly incorporate the criteria of the specific award with clear examples for each criteria when writing your letter of nomination or support. This not only assists you, as nominator, to highlight the important and relevant attributes of your nominee, it gives the selection committee very clear details about the qualifications of the candidate with examples of their achievements and enhances the overall nomination.
Tips and Templates
Criteria
Contributes to the field of nursing and demonstrates commitment, dedication and service to their community and/or UCalgary Nursing alumni
Serves their community and acts as an inspirational role model to others
Creatively exchanges nursing knowledge to enrich the lives of others
Acts as an ambassador for UCalgary Nursing through volunteerism or their inspirational representation as a UCalgary Nursing graduate
Award Selection Process
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards Working Group will review all nominations and select the candidate they feel best exemplifies the criteria for the award. The number of nominations an individual receives may favourably impact the outcome. If the committee feels there is no clear choice, they may choose not to give an award in this category.
In the event a member of the committee is nominated for an award, the member will excuse himself/herself from deliberations for this award.
Additionally, no committee member may support a nomination with a letter of reference.
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards represent a shift from the previous internal awards programs - the Pursuit of Excellence and Covenant Health Faculty of Nursing Awards - and therefore previous recipients in similar categories may be nominated again.