Nurse Ambassadors for a world without NEC
We have 100+ Nurse Ambassadors dedicated to bringing NEC awareness and resources to their units and patient-families. Join us.
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Join our community of leaders to build a world without NEC!
Nurse Ambassadors support the NEC Society’s vision of a world without NEC (necrotizing enterocolitis). Nurse Ambassadors are committed to helping drive NEC research, education, and advocacy. Join our community of leaders to build a world without NEC.
What do Nurse Ambassadors do?
- Empower families with evidence-based information about NEC by sharing the NEC Society’s educational resources
- Lead NEC Awareness Month and Day in your unit
- Collaborate and communicate with other Nurse Ambassadors for a world without NEC
- Share upcoming NEC Society events with colleagues
- Strengthen the NEC Society’s mission to build a world without NEC
Why be a Nurse Ambassador?
- Recieve quarterly emails with important NEC Society updates, overviews of recent research and studies about NEC, and upcoming webinars hosted by Medela University for CE credit
- Opportunity to apply for a $2500 grant to improve your unit
- Discounted registration for the NEC Symposium, the world’s leading scientific conference dedicated to NEC
- Be a crucial part of the NEC Society’s movement to building a world without this cruel disease
What are the Nurse Ambassadors' values?
- Amplify the patient-family voice
- Foster equity, inclusivity, and diversity
- Accelerate research
- Cultivate collaboration
Nurse Ambassadors are expected to:
- Maintain professionalism and respect at all times
- Either be the resource point person in your unit for the NEC Society’s family resource boxes or facilitate the setting up of a resource point person
- For nurses in follow-up care, share the NEC Registry with families
- Read and uphold NEC Society’s Inclusivity and Conflict of Interest
- Lead your unit in recognizing NEC Awareness month (May) and NEC Awareness Day (May 17)
*NEC Society reserves the right to prohibit acceptance or remove any individual as a nurse ambassador at any time for actions and/or behavior that does not align with these policies and our organizational values.
Nurse Ambassador Grants
Congratulations to Macall Ehmann, RN, and and Isabella Massey, RN, recipients of the first NEC Society Nurse Ambassador Research award. Their project, “Educating and Empowering Patient-Families and Nurses of the Micro Preemie in the Setting of NEC” will raise NEC awareness among NICU patient-families, support the needs of bereaved families, and create a quality improvement project on NEC prevention strategies.
The NEC Society awards up to three $2,500 research awards per year to Nurse Ambassadors. Interested in applying? Contact NEC Society Research Coordinator Erin Pryor: ErinPryor@NECsociety.org.