American Nurses Association Innovation Awards

The American Nurses Association (“ANA”) and the American Nurses Foundation are proud to partner with Stryker on the ANA Innovation Awards. These awards highlight, recognize, and celebrate nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety and/or outcomes.

Applications need to clearly identify how each innovation advances health. This innovation can be implemented in an academic, healthcare, community, public health, or private industry setting. These innovations can include: an educational intervention, a product or device, technology, research, a business or program, a service, or a new care model.

The ANA Innovation Awards will be presented to an individual nurse, a nurse-led team, and an whose product, program, project, or practice, improve patient outcomes, and exemplify nurse-led innovation. The individual nurse will receive an award of $25,000 the nurse-led team will receive and award of $50,000, and to further develop their innovation over the course of one year. After one year, the winners will present their outcomes at an ANA event. The intent of these monetary awards is to provide one nurse and one nurse-led team with support to use translational research, development, prototyping, production, testing and implementation for an innovative product, program, or practice transformative to patient safety and/or outcomes in the United States.

Applications are evaluated by a double-blind, peer review process conducted by a panel of national experts with the final decision made by the ANA Innovation Department.

Applications will be accepted from June 1, 2022, through November 4, 2022. For more information, please visit the ANA website, or access the Rules, Criteria and Application Instructions here.