Nominations are open for the 2027 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Nursing Awards. Prizes of $25,000 each will go to up to three nurses who provide outstanding end-of-life care based on compassionate service and merit. Nurses at all levels of practice (LVN/LPN, RN/APRN) qualify for nomination. The nomination deadline is January 31, 2027.
The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation, whose mission is to enrich the provider-patient relationship near the end of life through education, collaboration, and recognition, created and funds the awards. The Hastings Center for Bioethics, the oldest independent nonpartisan bioethics research institute, co-sponsors the awards.
The awards selection committee is composed of Betty Ferrell, director of nursing research and education and a professor at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif.(chair); Ashley Leak Bryant, associate professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lynn F. Reinke, endowed professor of palliative care at the University of Utah; Tamryn Fowler Gray, associate professor of clinical instruction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing; and Billy Rosa, chief research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Watch this brief video with winning nurses.
For additional information, please contact:
Susan Gold
Communications Director
Cunniff-Dixon Foundation
Email: susan@cunniffdixon.org