Best Practice Award

The Best Practice Award nomination can be made for an individual practitioner or a team or part of a service.

Winners will receive £100 of gift tokens and a certificate.

Please note: applications are currently closed for this award and will reopen in January 2024 for this academic year.

Award criteria

The person/people you nominate need to fulfil the below criteria:

• Uses knowledge of the student’s stage of learning to select appropriate learning opportunities to meet individual needs
• Able to meet individual learning needs by employing a range of facilitation approaches
• Able to foster an effective learning environment
• Demonstrates the qualities of an effective role model
• Communicates honestly with students in order to provide constructive feedback on role performance
• Supports students in enhancing their performance and capabilities for safe and effective practice and is clear and constructive in action planning
• Identifies and applies research and evidence-based information nursing practice
• Demonstrates an understanding of practice assessment strategies
• Able to make fair and just decisions in regard to a student’s practice knowledge and competence.

Make a nomination

Nominations can be made by students, a member of staff in the college or colleagues in practice. They can be made across fields. For example, a physiotherapy student could nominate an occupational therapy practitioner or a paramedic could nominate an emergency department sister.

Please note: applications are currently closed for this award and will reopen in January 2024 for this academic year.