The 18th Annual Great 100 Nurses Celebration
of Dallas & Fort Worth
Honoring this year’s nurses who were nominated by their peers and selected for being leaders, role models, compassionate caregivers, community servants, and significant contributors to the nursing profession.
The great 100 Nurses of Dallas-Fort Worth is celebrating its 18th year of recognizing and honoring nurses who exemplify excellence in the art and science of nursing. The DFW awards, founded by chair Beth Mancini, RN, PhD, are administered by The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Nurse Executives Forum and the Texas Nurses Association Districts 3 and 4.
What makes a Great 100 nurse? A commitment to others that goes beyond the duties of the regular nursing job. Perhaps Mancini said it best when she described being a Great 100 nurse as “seeking for others what you would want for yourself or your loved ones. It is going the extra mile for your patients, their families, your community andyour students, not because you have to, but because you want to and because you can make a difference by doing so.”
Nominations can be submitted by anyone. Patients, family members, coworkers, administrators and more nominate hundreds of nurses each year. This year, a record number of over 700 nominations were received.
“I believe the record number of nominations reflects the increasing recognition of the incredible impact nurses haveon the patients and communities they serve,” says Mancini. “From its beginning in 1991, it was a goal of the Great 100 Nurses program to increase the visibility of nursing and provide recognition for the work that nurses do each day."
Once received, each nomination is read by two to three people and scored with a confidential scoring system. The scores are added together and averaged, with the top 100 scores selected as winners. The selection committee remains confidential each year, with no more than two people per institution to read the nominations. This year, there were 22 people on the selection committee who spend more than six hours scrutinizing the record breaking |
