Nurse Ambassador Program
The NEC Society Nurse Ambassador Program currently engages 100+ nurses dedicated to bringing NEC awareness and resources to their unit and patient-families.
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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.
VALUES
What are the nurse ambassador's values?
- Amplify the patient-family voice
- Foster equity, inclusivity, and diversity
- Accelerate research
- Cultivate collaboration
Involvement
What do nurse ambassadors do?
- Champion NEC Awareness Month (May) in your unit/facility and on social media
- Share NECsociety.org and resources available to families and clinicians
- Share upcoming NEC Society events, announcements, and programs with colleagues
- Strengthen the NEC Society as an organization and movement
Benefits
Why Be a nurse ambassador?
- Be part of the NEC Society’s movement of advancing NEC research, education, and advocacy
- Opportunity to apply for 1 of 3 $2,500 evidence-based practice/QI project awards
- Quarterly Nurse Ambassador newsletter
- Reduced registration for biennial NEC Symposium
- 20% off NEC Society merchandise
- Access to resources for patient-families affected by NEC
Nurse Ambassadors are expected to:
- Maintain professionalism and respect at all times
- Read and uphold NEC Society’s Inclusivity, Conflict of Interest, and Gift Acceptance policies.*
- Participate NEC Society’s virtual or in-person events
- Encourage your unit to join the NEC Society in recognizing NEC Awareness month (May) and NEC Awareness Day (May 17) by sharing NEC Society’s posts and graphics
*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.
A donation (of any amount) is encouraged. The NEC Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
For more information please contact Erin Pryor: erinpryor@NECsociety.org
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