The SouthDakotaSNA Excellence in Writing Award highlights perseverance, dedication, and commitment in the nursing profession. In the essay, you must include answers to the following questions: 1. In what ways do you demonstrate perseverance, dedication, and commitment in the nursing profession? 2. How does your perseverance, dedication, and commitment better the profession of nursing? 3. How will you use these pillars of nursing practice to contribute to nursing research (examples include: participating in research studies, presenting a case presentation, etc)? Paper Guidelines: This paper is to be 500-1000 words in length and written in APA format, and references should be included. All articles should be within the last 10 years.