Official Rules

To enter the 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing, please submit your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail [if available] as well as the nurse’s name, credentials, place of employment, telephone number, and e-mail [if available]. Entries without required information will be ineligible for the contest.

Nominations should be made by one person—a current/former patient or caregiver—to honor one oncology nurse. Submit a 400- to 700-word essay detailing how your nurse helped you. Nominations previously entered for the 2007 award remain eligible with new essays.

E-mail your submission in the body of an e-mail to contest@curetoday.com. Please include the nominee’s name in the subject line. No attachments, please.

Nominations may also be mailed to:
CURE
Attention: Extraordinary Healer Award
3500 Maple Avenue, Suite 750
Dallas, Texas 75219

Nominations must be received no later than April 7, 2008. Finalists will be notified by April 22. Late nominations will not be accepted. Nominations must be complete and in compliance with instructions to be eligible for consideration. Limit one essay submission per person. Essays will be judged by CURE Media Group staff.

CURE Media Group is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, illegible, or postage-due mail or for delayed or incomplete e-mail transmissions. If you have questions about the contest, e-mail alexandra.hurd@curetoday.com. By submitting an essay, you agree that CURE Media Group shall become the proprietor of the submission and of all rights therein throughout the world including, without limitation, the copyright and all rights under copyright therein.

Finalist essays may be published in a 2008 issue of CURE, Heal, CURExtra, www.curetoday.com, www.healtoday.com, and related products in any media, whether now known or thereafter devised, without compensation. Contest is open to current and former patients with a history of cancer diagnosis and their caregivers. Employees of CURE Media Group, Medical Media Holdings, its sponsors, advertising/public relations agencies and members of their immediate families and households are not eligible.

The first 100 entrants who fulfill essay contest requirements will receive a complimentary copy of CURE’s first book, Extraordinary Healers: CURE Readers Honor Oncology Nurses—a moving compilation of essays received during the inaugural Extraordinary Healer Award contest in 2007.

Three finalists will receive round-trip airfare from a major airport in the continental United States and two-night accommodations for themselves and one guest each to attend the awards reception in Philadelphia to read their essay aloud and be present when a winner is awarded. The winning essay will be published in a 2008 issue of CURE. The three nurse nominees will also receive round-trip airfare from a major airport in the continental United States and two-night accommodations for themselves and one guest each to attend the awards reception. The nurse who is awarded the 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing will also receive a three-night Spa Refresher for Two at the Lake Austin Spa Resort in recognition of his or her service to cancer patients and survivors. Prizes have no cash value. If finalists are unable to attend the reception, they forfeit all winnings.

Finalists will be selected on or about April 16 by the CURE and Heal staffs on the basis of how the essay best portrays the inspirational and exceptional qualities of an oncology nurse, including compassion, expertise, helpfulness and insight, originality and creativity of the essay, and the number of qualified entries each nurse receives. The decision of the judges is final. Finalists will be notified by phone or e-mail and will be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity/Materials Release, which must be returned within three business days of receipt of the notification letter or alternate finalists will be selected. Finalists under the age of 18 must have the written consent of their parent or legal guardian. Finalists shall agree in writing that CURE Media Group and anyone they may authorize may without compensation use finalist’s name, photograph or other likeness, biographical information and statements concerning the contest or the sponsors, and essays for purposes of advertising and promotion without additional compensation. For a list of finalists, go to www.curetoday.com/healeraward on or after April 24, 2008. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase required.