Impactful Education: Undergraduate Student Award
This student award recognizes an undergraduate nursing student who exhibits overall excellence academically, clinically and collegially. They use their increasing nursing knowledge to take initiative, navigate change and engage their colleagues and community.
This is open to UCalgary Nursing undergraduate students on main campus, Medicine Hat College and students in our various Rural and Indigenous Community Route programs.
Nomination Process
Nominations are welcomed from any students and faculty members from any University of Calgary faculty as well as preceptors and others in the health-care field. The nominee must agree to the nomination.
A completed nomination form must be accompanied by at least two signed letters of reference, one from a faculty member or preceptor who can speak directly to the criteria. One of the two letters 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
Shows exemplary promise academically, clinically and collegially as a beginning practitioner
Demonstrates leadership within the faculty and/or community through participation in student governance, volunteerism and/or knowledge exchange
Exhibits commitment to their personal wellbeing and that of their fellow students
Displays authenticity, inclusivity, compassion, resilience and respect toward peers, faculty members, clients/patients and communities
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.