Award Highlights Excellence in Aspiring Nurse Leaders

The Foundation for Healthy Communities is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for the 2023 Clint Jones Nursing Award. This annual award recognizes a registered nurse practicing in New Hampshire who exemplifies the practice of compassionate, quality nursing care and demonstrates a commitment excellence in the nursing profession.

The Clint Jones Nursing Award was developed in honor of Clint Jones, who worked with extraordinary enthusiasm and commitment at the Foundation and several other New Hampshire organizations, to encourage people to pursue a nursing career in hospitals, schools, long-term care facilities and community practices.

Selection criteria include a demonstration of excellence and enthusiasm in the delivery of patient care; communication with patients, their families and healthcare colleagues; commitment to nursing as a career; and inspiration to other nurses and healthcare professionals as a role model. In particular, the award is designed for an RN who has been in practice at least one year but no more than six years.

You can download the nomination form here. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 14, 2023.

Following the selection of the winner, the person who submitted the nomination will be contacted regarding the Committee’s decision.  The Foundation will work with the recipient’s nominator to schedule a celebration at their hospital during National Hospital Week May 6^th – May 12^th and in addition, the recipient will be recognized at the NHHA & FHC Annual Meeting, October 15 – 17, 2023. 

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] should you have any questions, and we look forward to celebrating the efforts, skills and compassion being delivered every day by nurses throughout the state!

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