People's Choice Chief Nursing Officer Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and why this Nevada nursing ballot exists

The People's Choice Chief Nursing Officer Awards are a public recognition ballot run by the Nevada Nurses Foundation, a non-profit organization associated with the Nevada Nurses Association. The foundation describes its mission as fund-raising for nurses scholarships together with awards and other recognition of outstanding Nevada nurses. This ballot is the recognition side of that work: it invites the public to name the nursing leaders they believe deserve honor.

The audience is broad by design. Because the form is open to visitors rather than restricted to foundation members, the people voting can be nurses themselves, colleagues in hospital administration, students in Nevada nursing programmes, or patients and families who want to credit an executive who shaped their care. That mix is what the "People's Choice" label signals, and it separates this ballot from in-house peer reviews or board selections.

The ballot sits on the foundation's own website rather than on an external contest site. The awards header above the form names Chief Nursing Officer, Director of Nursing, Dean/Director and CEO roles, so the programme covers nursing leadership at several levels of a Nevada healthcare organization. The table below gathers the basics a supporter needs before voting.

The 2026 window and what the foundation has not published

The dated fact at the center of this ballot is the closing time: the page asks visitors to complete the form to nominate or vote for a candidate by midnight on the September 2026 deadline printed on the form. The timing places the whole cycle inside September 2026, and the foundation's site carries a copyright line extending through 2026, so the ballot sits within an established organizational history even though this edition stands alone on the foundation's site.

That newness matters for expectations. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No future cycle, no next deadline and no announcement of a recurring schedule appear alongside the form, so a supporter planning ahead has nothing dated to plan around beyond the September 2026 close.

Several practical details are also absent from the page. The foundation does not print a list of the ballot's categories beyond the role names in the awards header, and it publishes no per-supporter vote limit, no rule on repeat submissions and no candidate eligibility text. The criteria section describes a leader who provides a positive influence, but the fuller selection standards a voter might expect are not spelled out. Anyone who needs those specifics before submitting a name should read the live form closely or contact the foundation directly, since the page itself is the only published source for this programme.

How a supporter nominates or votes on the form

The mechanic is simple and takes only minutes. To take part, a supporter goes to the awards page on the Nevada Nurses Foundation's website and completes the form shown there. The page's own instruction is to nominate or vote for a candidate by midnight on the September 2026 deadline printed on the form, which means a single submission serves both purposes: putting a name forward and backing a name already nominated.

Because the ballot sits on the foundation's own domain, there is no contest-platform login, no email verification wall and no third-party account to create before taking part. A supporter arrives at the foundation's site, fills in the candidate and contact fields the form presents, and submits. The awards header names the Chief Nursing Officer, Director of Nursing, Dean/Director and CEO roles, so the form is structured around those leadership positions rather than around businesses or services.

The criteria printed beside the form describe a leader who provides a positive influence, and supporters should treat that wording as the standard their nomination is measured against. What the form does not state is how often a supporter may submit or whether repeat entries from the same person are accepted. The foundation has not published a rule on repeat submissions for this ballot. The practical advice is straightforward: submit honestly, before the midnight close, and let the foundation's own process handle validation. Supporters who want a candidate to reach more people can share the foundation's awards page directly, since every voter has to come through that same form.

Where this ballot sits among Nevada's public-vote programmes

Nevada has a busy public-vote scene, and most of it looks nothing like this ballot. Media publishers across the state run broad best-of contests: Best of Carson City in the capital region, Best of Elko County in the northeast, Best of Las Vegas in the south, Best of Northern Nevada and the Best of Reno Community's Choice Awards around Reno, plus the statewide Best of Nevada. Those ballots span restaurants, shops and services, and they run on contest platforms built for high vote volume.

The foundation's programme differs on every axis. Its organizer is a professional non-profit rather than a publisher, its host is its own website rather than a contest platform, and its subject is nursing leadership in named executive roles rather than consumer categories. The ballot is statewide in reach, since outstanding Nevada nurses anywhere in the state can be named, but its community is the nursing profession and the people it serves.

The difference any voter actually feels comes down to focus. A vote here competes within a much narrower field than a best-of category, and the audience that cares is concentrated among Nevada healthcare workers and the families they treat. That makes direct professional outreach, hospital newsletters and nursing school networks the natural channels, rather than the broad public pushes that media-run contests reward.