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Any care provider may be nominated for the Dennis J. Thomson Compassionate Care Scholar Award. To complete the nomination process, follow these instructions:
1. Nominator – Identify an individual who you feel embodies the qualities of compassionate care. Provide a letter of nomination describing why you feel the nominee qualifies as a compassionate caregiver. Discuss your plans with the nominee and discuss how the nominee may use the award to develop a project on compassionate care in your clinical area.
2. Nominee – Discuss your ideas for a compassionate care project with the nominator. Describe the goals for the project and how you will implement it in your clinical area. The project may include a wide range of activities such as developing a session on compassionate care for an already existing curriculum, sponsoring a series of lunch discussions on compassionate care, or inviting patients to provide feedback on compassionate care and using the results to amend a patient satisfaction survey. The project will vary according to clinical area.
3. Project Budget – Please include an itemized budget. The program offers seed money of $500.