The purpose of the award is to nationally recognize an NACNS member for outstanding professional achievement as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Preceptor. The award acknowledges a CNS preceptor who has demonstrated commitment to teach, coach and mentor CNS students and/or CNS new graduates to achieve CNS competencies in the nurse, patient, and organizational spheres as reflected in the NACNS Statement on CNS Practice and Education.
The CNS Preceptor of the Year Award is selected by the NACNS Awards Committee and awarded at the Annual Conference.
2024
Latasia Belin, DNP, APRN, AGCNS-BC, ONC, FCNS
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2023
Marcia Cornell, DNP, APRN-CNS, RN, ACNS-BC, NPD-BC, CEN, TCRN
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2022
Jennie Matays, MS, RN, CNS, CCNS, CCRN
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2021
Amy Patterson, MSN, APRN, AOCNS, BMTCN
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2019
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2018
Wayne Quashie, MSN, MPH, RN, CNS, ACNS-BC, AOCNS, a clinical nurse specialist with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, for outstanding professional achievement as a CNS preceptor who demonstrated a commitment to teach, coach and mentor CNS students to achieve CNS competencies.
2017
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2016
Brandee Ann Wornhoff, MSN, RN, CNS-BC
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2015
Courtenay Wannamaker Brown, MSN, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, PCCN
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2014
Jennifer Kitchens, MSN, RN, ACNS, BC, CVRN
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2013
Lianna Z. Ansryan, MSN, RN, CNS
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2012
Francesca Levitt, MSN, RN-BC, ACNS-BC
2011
Sharron Coffie, MS, RN, CNS-BC
2010
Linda M. Hoke, PhD, RN
2009
Marianne Hujcs, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, CNS
2007
Kathryn Anne ‘Katie’ Brush, RN, MS, CCRN, CONS, FCCM
2006
Ginger S. Pierson, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNS