AACN Pioneering Spirit Award

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AACN Pioneering Spirit Award recognizes significant contributions that influence acute and critical care nursing. Successful applicants exemplify a pioneering spirit, influencing the direction of acute and critical care nursing. The recipient addresses or resolves a significant issue facing acute and critical care nursing on a regional or national scale.


2023

  • Dallas M. Ducar
  • Wesley Ely
  • Ernest J. Grant
  • Brenda Pun

2022

  • Patricia Mullen Reilly
  • Gloria J. McNeal
  • Patricia Flatley Brennan

2021

  • Meredith Mealer
  • Marc Moss

2020

  • Alison Moëd
  • Cliff Morrison
  • Linda D. Scott
  • Rose Sherman

2019

  • Dorrie K. Fontaine
  • Céline Gélinas
  • Sharon K. Inouye

2018

  • Jonathan Bartels
  • Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk
  • Curtis N. Sessler

2017

  • Kathy Douglas
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Judith E. Nelson
  • Kathleen Puntillo

2016

  • Suzanne M. Burns
  • Cathie E. Guzzetta

2015

  • Paul B. Batalden
  • Ann E. Rogers

2014

  • Loretta C. Ford
  • Carrie B. Lenburg
  • Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation

Sponsored by GE Healthcare

2013

  • AAMI Foundation Healthcare Technology Safety Institute
  • JoAnn Grif Alspach
  • Richard Irwin

2012

  • The DAISY Foundation
  • Norma Metheny
  • Peter J. Pronovost

2011

  • Barbara J. Drew
  • Ada Sue Hinshaw
  • Mary Naylor

2010

  • Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
  • Kristine Gebbie

2009

  • Kathleen Andreoli
  • Bernice Coleman
  • Barbara J. Daly

2008

  • Patricia R. Ebright
  • Elaine Larson
  • Therese S. Richmond

2007

  • Joanne M. Disch
  • Jane Stover Leske
  • Nancy Curtis Molter
  • Elizabeth Tornquist

2006

  • Myra Christopher
  • William A. Knaus

Sponsored by Ross Products, Division of Abbott Laboratories

2005

  • Marlene Kramer
  • Susan J. Quaal
  • Claudia Schmalenberg

2004

  • Linda Aiken
  • Patricia Benner
  • Marianne Chulay
  • Angela Barron McBride

2003

  • Peter Buerhaus
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Diana J. Mason

2002

  • Diane M. Billings
  • Bernice Buresh
  • Suzanne Gordon
  • Steven Finkler
  • Vee Rice
  • Penny Vaughan

2001

  • Carla Joliat
  • Cynda Hylton Rushton
  • Wanda Salas

2000

  • Louis Lemberg
  • Karlene Kerfoot
  • Diana B. Mertrude

1999

  • Barbara Dossey
  • Larry Dossey
  • Suzanne Hall Johnson

1998

  • Raymond Larkin, Jr.
  • Timothy Porter-O’Grady

1997

  • Rose Pinneo
  • Vanessa L. Stevens
  • Marie Manthey