The CVAA Board of Directors are pleased to announce the winners of the CVAA/BD Excellence in Optimal Vascular Access & Infusion Therapy Award 2016!  The award recognizes the important contributions made in vascular access and infusion therapy practice with a focus on peripheral IV therapy.  The Call for Nominations went out in December, 2015.

Purpose of the award:  
• Promote safety and quality improvement in peripheral IV vascular access and infusion practices for optimal patient outcomes 
• Recognize champions and trailblazers in Canadian vascular access and infusion therapy practice
• Raise the awareness of the impact of individual contributions to system wide results

We had a great number of deserving applicants and the submissions were blindly reviewed by a committee of Board members.  There are three regional awards for recognition and from these regional winners, the national recipient has been identified. We are very pleased to announce the following recipients:

Regional
• West (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) – Kristie Naayer
• Central (Ontario, Bermuda) – Carmen Cernusca
• East (Quebec and Maritime provinces) – Kim Bowness

National
• Kim Bowness

The regional and national recipient(s) will receive an education grant of $500 and $1000 respectively, to be used for conference registration or educational pursuit and registration for the upcoming CVAA conference where they will be presented with the award. CVAA is appreciative of the initiative and support of BD, one of our 2016 Platinum Corporate Members, and wish to thank them for funding this award.