AONL, AONL Foundation Name Annual Award Recipients

AONL announced its annual award recipients this week. Jeffrey Doucette, DNP, RN, senior vice president and CNO at Press Ganey, South Bend, Ind., will receive the AONL Exemplary Leadership Award. Tiffany Burton, MSN, RN, director of nursing services for the Enterprise Resource Team at Advocate Health, Charlotte, N.C. will receive the Pamela Austin Thompson Emerging Leader Award. The AONL Prism Award will go to Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital. The North Carolina Organization for Nurse Leaders will receive the AONL Chapter Achievement Award, while Mark Lee, DNP, RN, Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, and Ron Yolo, DNP, RN, will receive the Nurse Leader Article of the Year Award. The AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education named Amany Farag, PhD, RN, as the 2026 recipient of the AONL Foundation Nurse Researcher Award. UKG and David Marshall, DNP, RN, are AONL Foundation Friend of the Year Award honorees. AONL and the AONL Foundation will recognize all recipients during its annual conference next week in Chicago. (AONL news release, 3/26/26)