Kathleen Singleton Organizational Award
What is the Kathleen Singleton Organizational Award?
Throughout her career, Kathleen Singleton actively promoted the need for healthy practice environments for medical-surgical nurses and who exemplified the role of AMSN in promoting nurse well-being, organizational engagement, as well as a commitment to continuing professional growth and development.
Established in 2021, this award was named in honor of Kathleen, who served as AMSN President from 2008-2010 as well as one of the association’s most dedicated and respected leaders. Singleton recently retired after working for nearly 50 years in a variety of nursing positions. These included critical-care and medical-surgical bedside nurse, clinical nursing faculty member, and Medical-Surgical Instructor of Nursing.
The award, which is given out annually and co-sponsored by Medtronic, Inc. was launched to award facilities that have an outstanding record of promoting a healthy workplace environment that foster a ‘patient first’ philosophy.
AMSN and Medtronic recognize and celebrate organizations that actively promote the need for healthy practice environments for medical-surgical nurses and who exemplify the role of AMSN in promoting nurse well-being, organizational engagement, as well as a commitment to continuing professional growth and development.
Recent Kathleen Singleton Award Recipients
St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center was founded in 1922 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. The hospital is New York state’s only specialty designated cardiac center, offering one of the leading cardiac care programs in the nation.
St. Francis Hospital recognizes the unique and essential contributions of medical-surgical nurses and demonstrates true institutional support by fostering clinical competency, autonomy of nursing practice, shared governance councils, and establishing an environment of respect and safety for patients and nurses.
Nurses can thrive in a safe and healthy practice environment, and this organization has a proven record of excellence in medical-surgical nursing. To date the hospital has achieved an incredible 14 AMSN PRISM Awards for exemplary medical-surgical nursing practice at the unit level. These awards are so significant, because they show St. Francis’s dedication to exemplary med-surg nursing—of which health practice environment is such a critical part—consistently, over many years!
Cleveland Clinic strongly supports nursing education and clinical competency, and fosters respectful nurse-nurse, nurse-physician, and interprofessional collaborations.
Cleveland Clinic embodies institutional support for medical-surgical nurses and promotes autonomy of nursing practice and nursing leadership. Cleveland Clinic advocates for and sustains a culture of environmental safety for patients and nurses.
Cleveland Clinic has also been a strong supporter of medical-surgical nurses in their institutions by supporting Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN®) certification through AMSN’s FailSafe Certification Program™ and by demonstrating excellence in medical-surgical nursing with two Cleveland Clinic units having received AMSN PRISM Awards®.
Read the AMSN Press Release: "AMSN Names Cleveland Clinic as First Recipient of Kathleen Singleton Award," from January 2022.
