Cherokee Requests Nominations for Nursing Excellence Award

LOS ANGELES—Cherokee Uniforms is accepting nominations for its annual Inspired Comfort Awards program, which has awarded more than 70 outstanding healthcare professionals for their exceptional service, sacrifice and innovation since 2003.

Nominations will be accepted through May 31, 2009. The Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award program provides peers, friends and colleagues with an opportunity to celebrate nurses and other non-physician healthcare professionals for their tireless work and dedication.

To nominate a healthcare professional, click here or pick up a nomination form from a Cherokee Uniforms retailer. Candidates may be nominated in two of the following categories but can only win in one: Registered Nurses (RNs); Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs); Licensed Practical Nurses/Licensed Vocational Nurses (LPNs/LVNs); students enrolled in schools of nursing; and other non-physician healthcare professionals.

Nominations must contain an accurate description of the candidate’s exceptional performance which must have taken place at least in part in 2008. For every healthcare professional nominated through May 31, 2009, Cherokee Uniforms will make a donation to Nurses House, a national fund that provides short-term financial assistance to registered nurses facing serious hardship. All nominators will receive a gold pin etched with the award’s emblem and a 2009 Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award calendar.