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MAY 17, 2025
DoubleTree by Hilton Denver-Westminster
Cocktail Hour - 5:30pm
Dinner - 6:30pm
Rate is $144 and includes a full breakfast buffet!
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Meet Our MC!
Dr. Amy Barton, Professor and Daniel and Janet Mordecai Endowed Chair in Rural Health Nursing, serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Students at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing. She is known nationally for her work in implementing and evaluating interprofessional nurse-led models of care, faculty practice, quality and safety, and community partnerships.
Dr. Barton is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice, and holds fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing, the Western Academy of Nursing, and the Academy of Nurse Educators. She received the 2024 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Eminence.
Partners
As we have in the past, CNF is partnering with Regional AHEC’s and Associations to receive nominations and select recipients. Our partners are:
Denver Regional Nurses Association
Centennial AHEC
Pikes Peak Nightingale Association
San Luis Valley AHEC
Southeastern Colorado AHEC
Southwestern Colorado AHEC
Nightingale Western Colorado
These Regional Partners will receive the nominations from their areas and will select their finalists, to be called Luminaries, and submit them to the State Selection Committee. The State Selection Committee will be comprised of representatives from each of the Regional Partners, CNF Board Members, and previous Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients. The State Selection Committee will select the sixteen Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients. All the Nominees and Luminaries will be honored at the Excellence in Nursing Awards Gala to be held May 17, 2025, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Denver-Westminster. The Excellence in Nursing Award Recipients will be announced at the Gala. Proceeds from the Excellence in Nursing Awards Gala will be used to support the CNF Nursing Scholarship Program.
About the Excellence in Nursing Awards
The Colorado Nurses Foundation is committed to making a collective impact on a diverse, inclusive, and equitable care environment for all Colorado nurses and the Coloradans they serve. We embrace the uniqueness of all nurses and the kaleidoscope of humans of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or immigration path who call Colorado home. Our commitment to these values is central to our mission and guides the development and implementation of our programs and initiatives that foster nursing excellence and promotes the leadership role of nurses to create a sustainable health care system for Colorado. One of these programs is the Excellence in Nursing Awards for Nursing Excellence.
The recognition program will present the coveted Excellence in Nursing Awards in sixteen categories:
Acute Care Clinical Practice
RN
LPN
Clinical Advanced Practice RN
Long Term Care, Rehabilitation
RN
LPN
Community Nursing
RN
LPN
Nurse Led Teams
Nursing Administration
Executive (CEO, CNO or Director Level)
Leader/Manager
Research and Quality Improvement and Health Care Policy
Nursing Research
Quality Improvement
Health Care Policy
Nursing Education
Academia
Nursing Professional Development
Nursing Eminence