ANA Innovation Team Award Recipient
Winner of the Nurse-Led Team Award
We did it as a CRNA team together as a grassroots evidence-based award-winning diversity initiative with the Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs!
Each one of us actively participating in diversifying the nurse anesthesia profession as an
American Nurses Association 2024 Innovation Team Award Recipient!!!
We are changing the racial and ethnic Nurse Anesthesia workforce, decreasing health disparities and improving health outcomes!
The three diversity evidence-based initiatives include:
Diversity CRNA Information Session & Airway Simulation Lab Workshops
Diversity CRNA HBCU & Hispanic Serving Institution Schools of Nursing Tour
Diversity CRNA Doctorate Symposiums
Thank you to the following CRNA collaborators & PhD Researcher for the ANA Innovation Team Award
BRAVO, DEAR COLLEAGUES!!
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing"
- Audre Lorde
As per the ANA website...
The ANA Innovation Awards—sponsored by Stryker—highlight, recognize, and celebrate nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety outcomes. Awards are presented to a nurse and a nurse-led team whose product, program, project, or practice best exemplify nurse-led innovation in patient safety and/or outcomes.
The Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity within graduate nurse anesthesia programs. This is primarily accomplished through the Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs (The Immersion Model), an innovative, evidence-based program focused on the diversification of the nursing workforce. It was created specifically for nurses of color who have been historically underrepresented as certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs); thereby, aiming to help reduce health disparities, structural inequities, and institutional biases. The Immersion Model prepares nurses of color to be competitive applicants for graduate anesthesia programs and successful students while equipping them to provide better health outcomes for the diverse population.
What’s unique about the Immersion Model is that it’s the only program that actively engages with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions Schools of Nursing. With the award funds, The Immersion Model’s goal is to expand its professional events for CRNAs across the country. It also seeks to replicate this successful program for Advance Practice Nurses (APRNs).