ABPANC Advocacy Award
The purpose of the ABPANC Advocacy Award is to publicly recognize the CPAN® and/or CAPA® certified nurse who exemplifies leadership as a patient advocate. Do you have a story to tell about how a CPAN and/or CAPA certified nurse advocated above and beyond one’s normal role to meet the needs of a perianesthesia patient and/or their family?
Nominations are due February 15 of each year, and winners will be recognized in-person at the CPAN/CAPA Celebration Luncheon held in conjunction with ASPAN National Conference.
Eligibility Requirements: The nominee must be currently CPAN and/or CAPA certified and demonstrate any or all of the following competencies:
- Provides Empathic Care: Accepts an individual’s underlying concerns and needs and provides education, comfort, and support as appropriate. Is direct and genuine in patient interactions, breaking through emotional barriers to identify the true needs.
- Uses Standards of Excellence: Ensures that patient care is based on or surpasses a standard of excellence. Implements specific changes in the current system or in work methods in order to improve performance and quality.
- Advocates for the Patient and/or Significant Others: Steps in to provide solutions that may not be readily apparent to meet identified needs of the patient or significant others. This may necessitate involving others to manage existing symptoms and matching solutions to identified needs.
- Takes initiative: Identifies a problem, obstacle, or opportunity and takes action without being directed, in order to address current or future problems or opportunities.
- Demonstrates Interpersonal Understanding: Is able to accurately hear and understand the spoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others. Has a deeper and more complex understanding of others that includes cross-cultural sensitivity.
As you prepare your nomination, please provide as many details as possible regarding the how the nominee meets the above criteria. Submissions are evaluated based on the depth of answers demonstrating the nominee’s impact on the patient/family as well as practice of perianesthesia nursing. Data, quotes, patient testimonials, etc. are highly encouraged.
Award winners receive:
- A plaque and recognition during the CPAN/CAPA Celebration Luncheon at the ASPAN National Conference
- A $350 cash award
- A scholarship toward his or her next recertification
- In the event that the employer cannot cover travel expenses to the event, ABPANC can provide airfare to the conference, as well as one nights of hotel plus for travel expenses, for the award winner.
Additionally, the nominator receives a $100 cash award, and the winner’s unit will receive aa $350 scholarship that can be used for things such as CPAN/CAPA certification exam fees, recertification fees, continuing education, books, etc.
Cale Moyle, RN, BSN, CPAN, Named 2024 ABPANC Advocacy Award Recipient
Every year, ABPANC recognizes a CPAN or CAPA certified nurse who exemplifies leadership as a patient advocate with its highest honor, the Advocacy Award. The 2024 recipient is Cale Moyle, RN, BSN, CPAN, of the UW East Madison Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.
Cale’s years of PACU experience have helped him personalize his patient care, engage with patients and caregivers, and empower them to tackle the often-unfamiliar challenges that lie ahead.
Cale is a strong patient and family advocate; he actively provides empathetic care and demonstrates interpersonal understanding; he takes initiative to enhance patient outcomes and their experience; lastly, he incorporates ASPAN standards to uphold excellence in patient care and his Care Team Leader duties.
But his advocacy doesn’t stop with patients. Cale advocated on behalf of the PACU by suggesting a workgroup to uncover the barriers with holding patients and how to advocate for their needs overnight. With his efforts, the workgroup created an avenue for patients to order food/meals from the culinary department, ensure they were first to be seen by physical therapy the next morning, and created a business proposal for a night-shift RN to help care for these patients overnight instead of asking for RN volunteers.
Congratulations Cale!