Community Award

Cavell Nurses’ Trust  is a charity that supports nurses, midwives and HCA’s.   With this background it would be appropriate were the NurseAid awards to recognise and reward acts that demonstrated students commitment to caring and compassion in their community.  ‘Community’ could be deemed to be their student community, communities around their placement of study or their home.

This category is the gateway to information on all forms of nursing based work/assessments and placement learning at the University. For simplicity the term placement is used to encompass the range of work based and placement learning available as part of their studies.

ENTRY CRITERIA

  1. Entries are open to nursing and midwifery students from the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  2. Entries are welcomed from Year 2 and Year 3 nursing students or equivalent if on a shortened programme; final year if on 18 months Midwifery programme
  3. Individual entries should be made by the individual.
  4. Entrants must submit a brief outline (no more than 500 words – 1000 words maximum) as to why they feel they should win this particular category. Students are expected to achieve three broad categories which have to be demonstrated during their placement. These are communication skills, nursing or midwifery skills and problem-solving skills.
  5. The student also needs to be able to demonstrate professionalism, their personal qualities and approach to learning, their practice performance and team working
  6. The student will need to be able to demonstrate these skills and have a mentor or verifier assess them.
  7. The closing date for entries in all categories is Friday December 9th 2011.
  8. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence can be entered into and if 2 nominations are of equal weight then judges will take into account personal circumstances to reach a final decision.

Main Prize: Travel scholarship funding of up to £1,500* maximum 
One Runner-Up Prize:  A must have Sony Vaio laptop computer
*tailored to your studies (in association with your university)