Cherokee Uniforms accepting nominations for annual Inspired Comfort Award
LOS ANGELES — Medical scrubs provider Cherokee Uniforms has announced that it is accepting nominations through May 31 for its annual Inspired Comfort Award, which recognizes those healthcare professionals, such as registered nurses and advanced practice nurses, who go above and beyond the call of duty to make a difference for their patients and the communities they serve.
Since its inception in 2003, more than 9,000 healthcare professionals have been nominated for the award. To date, 80 recipients have been honored with this award for the outstanding impact they've made on their communities and the people in them.
Candidates can be nominated in two of the following categories but can only win in one: RNs; advanced practice nurses, or APNs; licensed practical nurses/licensed vocational nurses, or LPNs/LVNs; students enrolled in nursing school; and other nonphysician healthcare professionals. Any institution named on more than 200 eligible nominations will be awarded a $1,000 unrestricted grant.
All winners will receive a wardrobe featuring the best of Cherokee Uniforms and Cherokee Footwear worth more than $1,000, a Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award, a 14K gold-plated commemorative pin, a year's subscription to Scrubs — a lifestyle magazine for nurses — and a $500 donation in their name to the Diseases Attacking the Immune System Foundation.
Nominations must contain an accurate description of 100 words or more of the candidate's exceptional performance, which must have taken place at least in part in 2010. For every healthcare professional nominated through May 31, Cherokee Uniforms will make a donation to Nurses House, a national fund that provides short-term financial assistance to registered nurses facing serious hardship.
A panel of nurse professionals, Cherokee professionals and former award recipients will choose winners who best meet the program's criteria of exceptional service, sacrifice and innovation. The grand-prize winner in each category will receive an all-expense-paid Caribbean cruise for two. Additional winners in each category will receive all-expense-paid trips to a 2012 U.S. medical conference of each winner's choice and an annual membership to their preferred clinical association. Additionally, those who nominate the grand-prize winner in each category will receive a $1,000 Cherokee medical wardrobe. Winners will be announced in October.
Healthcare professionals can be nominated at InspiredComfort.com/nominate or via nomination forms available at Cherokee Uniforms retailers nationwide.