The Nurse Innovator Award is now in our 4^th year of supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in nursing. This year we are distributing $97,000 to support 4 innovative programs and, thanks to the Connie Clerici Nurse Entrepreneur Award, 1 nurse entrepreneur. Work being done by innovative and entrepreneurial nurses. Included this celebration is the $25,000

The winners were announced at the Virtual Reception held on November 16, 2022, hosted by broadcast journalist Mary Ito. Click here to view the recorded event.

Projects being supported this year reflect the nursing concerns brought to the forefront in these days of “living with COVID”. We are pleased that many regions of the Province, different types of organizations, and many areas of nursing practice are represented among winning submissions. Again this year, we believe that each of these projects will have positive impact on nursing and patients for years to come. The ongoing support of the NIA Founding Donors, the Friends and Supporters, and other donors, is deeply appreciated.

We encourage you to take a few minutes to read the complete information about the winning projects. We are confident that you will be impressed and inspired.

Winners

2022 Connie Clerici Nurse Entrepreneur Award Winner

Sarah Smees has developed an entrepreneurial service dedicated to providing on-site vascular access to avoid the unnecessary transportation of patients to acute-care facilities for service that can be safely and efficiently delivered at the point of care.

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Geri-Connect Team

Geri-Connect is an App to support prevention and non-pharmacological treatment of elderly patients with delirium by nurses and health care providers in acute care.  It contains 3 customized components, an assessment tool, care plan and a repository of virtual/online applications/programs to complement care plan interventions.

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Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, prevalence rates of eating disorders and their severity have increased significantly and wait times for specialty treatment have become dangerously long. Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners in the community have been tasked with medically monitoring and supporting patients while they wait.

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Sudbury Regional Health Centre

The innovators will deliver an online one-stop shop for procedural-based nursing skills simulation station information. Nurse educators will be provided with tools for assessing needs, evaluating the impact of their hands-on educational initiatives, while being able to build/procure required procedural task trainers and equipment in a cost-effective manner.

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The Pamoja Institute

The Zero Hunger App uses research on socially conscious computing and Artificial Intelligence to get food to people who are food insecure and at the same time create deeply cooperative networks.

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