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Nikki Kieffer Medal

To recognise individuals who have demonstrated innovative and successful nurse-led initiatives in the endocrine field that have advanced best practice in patient care, education or research.

Winners of the Nikki Kieffer Medal will receive:

  • the opportunity to gain recognition for their work by presenting at our SfE BES conference
  • complimentary registration and travel allowance for our SfE BES conference
  • an honorarium of £1,000 (only paid if the winner is an Early-Career or Student Member of The Society)
  • the opportunity to publish an article detailing their work in the Society's quarterly magazine The Endocrinologist.

In honour of the great work Nurse Member, Nikki (Veronica) Kieffer contributed to our Society, the Endocrine Nurse Award has been replaced with the Nikki Kieffer Medal from 2021.

Nikki sadly passed away in 2019 and was the inaugural winner of this Award. She was a key part of our Society where she served as Chair of the Nurse Committee, led the development and publication of the Competency Framework for Adult Endocrine Nursing and championed the creation of the Society for Endocrinology–Oxford Brookes Masters-level module in Endocrine Nursing.

You can read her full obituary in The Endocrinologist.

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Deadline

The application deadline is 12 January 2025 23.59(GMT).

Value

An honorarium of £1,000 (only paid if the winner is an Early-Career or Student Member of The Society)

Eligibility

    • Open to all endocrine nurses who are Society members and involved in the care of patients with endocrine disorders, either working individually or as part of a team. Applicants must be qualified nurses and registered to practise.
    • Applicants must have undertaken a project/ piece of work which demonstrates a measurable impact upon endocrine nursing practice.
    • Relevant projects may cover any aspect of endocrine nursing. Examples include: development of a resource for patients, clinic management initiative, best practice development, community liaison education, nurse prescribing or medication management, use of technology to improve nursing care, research innovation.
    • Please ensure you refer to the eligibility criteria and career guidance table for the award before completing the application form. 

  • 2022: S Llahana
  • 2021: A Marland

How to apply

Please complete the application form online. If you have any questions please contact: [email protected]. 

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Conditions relating to the grant/award

  • Applicants must be qualified nurses working in endocrinology and registered to practise
  • The award is open to all endocrine nurses who are members of the Society and who are involved in the care of patients with endocrine disorders, either working individually or as part of a team
  • Applications will be judged/reviewed by the Nurse Committee and the recommendations presented to the Nominations Committee
  • The medallist will be invited to the Society’s Endocrine Nurse Update to receive their medal and to deliver a plenary lecture on the project. They will also be asked to write an article for The Endocrinologist
  • The decision of the judges/Nominations Committee is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • Candidates may not be Officers, Officers-elect or members of the Awards and Prizes Committee at the time of application or at the time of delivery of the lecture. Council members, as Trustees, are not able to receive the personal honorarium associated with the medal if they are in post at the time the lecture is given.
  • Clinical Endocrinology Journal Foundation and British Thyroid Association Pitt-Rivers Award winners are not eligible to be awarded a Society Medal in the same year.
  • Candidates cannot be awarded more than one of the Society awards per year.
  • Medallists should not be invited within 5 years of receiving another medal unless there are exceptional circumstances.
  • Check the membership requirements for each award.
Medals Nikki Kieffer Medal Emerging Researcher Lecture Leadership & Development Awards Programme Prizes at Society events Student Media Award Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Awards and Prizes Application

Masters-level module in Endocrine Nursing

Society for Endocrinology in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University offer a Masters-level module in Endocrine Nursing by a work-based learning approach

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Society for Endocrinology Competency Framework for Adult Endocrine Nursing (2nd Edition)

Focusing on core knowledge, skills and interventions that are specific to nurses working as adult endocrine nurses.

Find out more