People's Choice Award

This is the Scottish public’s opportunity to thank a nurse, midwife or nursing support worker who has made a difference to their, or a loved one’s, care.

About the award

Patients, clients, residents or relatives can nominate a nurse, midwife or nursing support worker who they believe has made a difference and gone that extra mile to ensure the highest standards of care.

Who can be nominated?

Registered nurses, registered midwives and nursing support workers working within health and care service in Scotland. Entries will be accepted from patient and members of the public only.

RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards 2024

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Nominations have now closed and, following the judging process, our finalists have been chosen by our panels.

If you have any questions or queries regarding the awards, please get in touch by emailing scotlandnurseawards@rcn.org.uk

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This award is an opportunity for you to thank an individual member or team of nursing staff who have made a difference to your care or that of your loved ones.

Please note you will not be able to save the form, it must be completed in one go. We recommend that you draft and edit your entry in a separate document then copy and paste it into this entry form. This should reduce the risk of submissions being lost. Please do not use colons, ampersands or arrows when completing the form, as it will not submit correctly.

When your nomination has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email – if you do not receive this, it means we have not received your nomination. In this case please contact the Nurse of the Year team on 0131 662 6173 or scotlandnurseawards@rcn.org.uk to resolve.

Section 1 - Your details

First name Last name Address 1 Address 2 City/Town Postcode Phone number Mobile number Email address (Note: please only use lower case letters)

Section 2 - Your nomination

Are you nominating: Can you confirm the nominee works in Scotland

Nominee details – please provide as much information as you have. If nominating a team please provide details of other team members in the text box.

First name Last name Job title Employer Place of work Phone number Email address (Note: please only use lower case letters) If nominating a team, please list the name and job title of each team member

Section 3 - Reason for nomination

Please evidence how your nominee meets the award criteria.

Please give your entry a title and provide details of why you believe the individual or team is worthy of winning the People’s Choice Award. Please include specific examples of the impact on you and/or your family.

Section 4 - How did you hear about the RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year awards?

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What makes a winner

Read more about our 2022 category winner below:

Fiona Bruce

Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, NHS Lothian

Edinburgh oncology nurse Fiona Bruce, works at the city’s Royal Hospital for Children and Young People while volunteering to give vital care to young cancer patients in Ghana. Along with Edinburgh oncologist Dr Emma Johnson, and other nursing colleagues, they have helped Ghanian child cancer medics set up what has become a leading children’s unit in Africa. The Edinburgh team are part of a global link of child oncology medics who work through UK charity World Child Cancer. Since twinning with Edinburgh’s children’s hospital Ghana now has seven hospitals giving childhood cancer treatment and care and five paediatric oncology doctors for the 1,300 children expected to develop cancer there annually. 11 years ago children’s cancer treatment was being given by a retired nurse in her 80s who drove an old bus a radius of 100 miles around the capital and thanks to Fiona and the rest of the Edinburgh team and their equally dedicated colleagues in Accra, they now have the gold standard child cancer treatment in West Africa and are training colleagues in other African countries.

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