What is The AMSN Beam Award?
The AMSN Beam Award is a unique award designed for nursing units outside of the traditional acute care medical-surgical unit with "medical-surgical service lines" within healthcare organizations. We recognize medical-surgical nursing is what you practice, not where you practice.
The professional nurse is responsible for the individual practice, but it takes a dynamic, energetic, and committed group of professionals working as a team to achieve and sustain outstanding patient outcomes and high staff satisfaction.
Through this distinguished honor, AMSN identifies and celebrates units that achieve sustained excellence in:
- Patient/Care Management
- Holistic Patient Care
- Elements of Interprofessional Care
- Professional Concepts
- Nursing Teamwork and Collaboration
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Qualifications
What type of unit qualifies as a medical-surgical unit?
Patient care units eligible to apply for the award include any non-traditional care unit with a primarily adult patient population with medical-surgical diagnoses. Applying units are defined as an individual practice area with specific unit metrics and outcomes. These units may:
- Unit is a non-traditional medical-surgical unit or center.
- Identify a minimum of 50% of the patient population (or encounters) as adult medical-surgical.
- Unit or center must be operational for at least 12 months before award submission.
Qualifying units for the AMSN Beam Award include, but are not limited to:
- Outpatient Surgery Center
- Outpatient Infusion Center
- Post-Acute Unit
- Acute Physical Rehabilitation Unit
- Hemodialysis Units or Centers
- Home Health
Application Information
Completion of the AMSN Beam Award application requires planning, time, and collaboration on the part of the unit that wishes to apply. To get started, review the reference version of the AMSN Beam Award application.
How does a unit apply for the AMSN Beam Award?
Each unit must complete the AMSN Beam Award online application and submit payment.
What is the submission deadline for the AMSN Beam Award?
There is no deadline for submitting the AMSN Beam Award application. Applications will be accepted throughout the year.
How is the application evaluated or scored?
Applications are blinded and peer reviewed by a team of medical-surgical nurses using the Beam Award Scoring Tool. The structure of the application is built on the five (5) criteria categories. To achieve the award, applicants must demonstrate how the unit meets or exceeds every question listed within each category.
When will we be notified of the results of our application?
The review process takes approximately 14-16 weeks. The facility contact person will be contacted by email.
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Recognition
How is the AMSN Beam Award presented and acknowledged?
A member of the AMSN or MSNCB Board (or their designated representative) will present this award to the medical-surgical unit virtually on a mutually agreed-upon celebration date.
AMSN will announce your unit's award on the AMSN website and in other AMSN media.
How long does the AMSN Beam Award designation last?
The award is valid for a period of three (3) years, and the unit is encouraged to reapply toward the end of that time.