NURSING EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2025

Nursing Excellence Awards is an opportunity to reflect and recognize actively engaged professional RN’s, LVN’s and clinical care colleagues exemplifying practice to merit recognition from peers and other professional colleagues at UCSF Health.  This includes all campuses (Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mt. Zion, Oakland, St. Mary’s and St. Francis, Langley Porter).

 

Direct questions to [email protected]

 

 

Process

  • Submit a nomination form via the Nursing Excellence Nomination Portal for each nominee
  • A single nominee can receive more than one nomination
  • Each nominee will be scored based on the award criteria
  • 800-character limit for each criteria entry
  • Do not include identifying information (i.e., name, pronouns, unit/clinic names, specific councils, etc.)

Timeline

Nomination Window: Jan 29 – Feb 18, 2025

Voting Window: Feb 26 – Mar 19, 2025

Winner Notification: Mar 26 – Apr 16, 2025

Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony (in-person):
May 09, 2025
1:00PM - 3:00PM

2001 The Embarcadero, 1st Floor, San Francisco

Eligibility

(some categories will have more eligibility guidelines)

  • A career employee (appointment of ≥ 50%)
  • Worked for a minimum of 2 years at UCSF Health
  • Have a performance evaluation of at least a satisfactory rating
  • Have not been a recipient of the same award category in the past

 

- SELECT SECTION FOR LIST OF WINNERS AND NOMINEES -


NURSING EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS

DISTINGUISHED NURSING AWARD

WINNER

 

AMBULATORY NURSING

CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING - SHEILA MANN AWARD

COMMUNITY SERVICE NURSING AWARD

NOMINEES

 

CRITICAL CARE NURSING - CLIFFORD K. & AVOLA WILSON MEMORIAL AWARD

NOMINEES

 

EMERGENCY NURSING AWARD

INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUE AWARD

 

MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING AWARD

NEUROSCIENCE NURSING - HELEN B. RIPPLE AWARD

 

NURSING LEADERSHIP AWARD

NURSING PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD

 

 

ONCOLOGY NURSING - JEANNE YALON AWARD

PERINATAL NURSING AWARD

 

PERI-PROCEDURAL NURSING AWARD

CLINICAL CARE PARTNERS AWARD

PRECEPTOR AWARD - ADULT SERVICES AWARD

PRECEPTOR AWARD - PEDIATRIC SERVICES AWARD



DAISY AWARDS

 

2024-2025 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

2025 NURSE LEADER AWARD

2025 TEAM AWARD

2025 ETHICS AWARD

2025 HEALTH EQUITY AWARD

2025 NURSE EDUCATOR AWARD

 

OTHER WAYS TO RECOGNIZE

Thank a colleauge using the UCSF Health Recognize Platform

Nominate a colleauge for a UCSF Health PRIDE Experience Award

Post a message on social media using #UCSFNurses

Tag @ucsfhealth or @ucsfchildrens or @UCSFHospitals (Twitter)

Patients can email [email protected]

Nominate a nurse for a DAISY Award in the West Bay and East Bay

 

 

 

Click to view previous Winners and Nominees