Florence Nightingale Medal_ Honoring distinctive nurses and nursing aides – 2023 recipients

Thirty-seven excellent nurses from 22 international locations have been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, which acknowledges distinctive braveness and devotion to victims of armed battle or pure catastrophe. It additionally acknowledges exemplary service or a pioneering spirit within the areas of public well being or nursing training.

The recipients had been nominated by their respective Nationwide Pink Cross or Pink Crescent Society and chosen by a fee comprised of the ICRC, the Worldwide Federation of Pink Cross and Pink Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Worldwide Council of Nurses.

AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS

Nicholas Prince

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions, notably with the British Pink Cross, the Australian Pink Cross, the ICRC and the IFRC.

Yvette Spero

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions, notably with the Australian Pink Cross, the ICRC and the IFRC.

RED CROSS SOCIETY OF BELARUS

Alena Filipovich

Registered nurse. Nurse-anesthetist of the anesthesia and intensive care unit division of the Well being Care Establishment “Berestovitsa Central District Hospital and energetic in nursing training.

RED CROSS SOCIETY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Edina Pačuković

Registered nurse. Medical professor on the Secondary Vocational College, Youth Coordinator on the Pink Cross Metropolis of Orasje. Notably energetic in catastrophe conditions.

CANADIAN RED CROSS

Sweet Kwok

Registered nurse. Senior Supervisor – Public Well being in Emergencies with the Canadian Pink Cross Society. Notably energetic in catastrophe conditions.

RED CROSS SOCIETY OF CHINA

Jing Chen

Registered nurse. Chief Nurse of the Hemodialysis Heart and Affiliate Professor of the Division of Emergency and Vital Care of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital. Energetic in catastrophe conditions and within the area of nursing training.

Shaoyun Xing

Registered nurse. Head Nurse of the Leprosarium of the Fifth Folks’s Hospital of Hainan Province. Notably reworked conventional leprosy Nursing and launched Novel leprosy wound remedy in China.

Xiaojuan Liu

Registered nurse. Secretary Normal of the Chinese language Nightingale Nursing Service Volunteer Staff. Energetic in catastrophe conditions and within the area of nursing training.

Xiuni Gan

Registered nurse. Deputy Dean of the College of Nursing of Chongqing Medical College (CQMU), Director of the Nursing Division of the Second Affiliated hospital of CQMU. Energetic in catastrophe conditions and within the area of nursing training.

Xuehong Zhao

Registered nurse. Deputy Director of the Nursing Division of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang College College of Medication and Chairperson of the Catastrophe Nursing Skilled Committee, Zhejiang Nursing Affiliation. Notably energetic in catastrophe conditions. Developed revolutionary initiatives to enhance and promote high-quality nursing.

Yan Jiang

Registered nurse. Director of Nursing Division within the West China Hospital, Sichuan College and Vice Dean of West China College of Nursing, Sichuan College. Notably energetic in catastrophe conditions and within the area of nursing training. Improved the event of evidence-based nursing in Sichuan.

Yinghui Zhang

Registered nurse. Deputy Director of Nursing Division of the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical College (Shanxi Pink Cross Hospital ), and chief of the Second Hospital Detachment of Shanxi Medical College of China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps. Notably energetic in catastrophe conditions.

CRUZ ROJA COSTARRICENSE

Juan Diego Baruque Villa

Registered nurse. Regional volunteer working in community-based care within the Puntarenas area. Energetic in disasters scenario and in nursing training.

DANISH RED CROSS

Kamma Skaarup

Registered nurse. Recruiter, Improvement Advisor and HR Area Referent in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Denmark. Mission Medical Referent in MSF area programmes. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions and within the space of public pealth.

Mie Ravnemose Terkelsen

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions with MSF.

Rikke Dalsted

Registered nurse. Head of Well being Clinics for Undocumented Migrants, Pink Cross Denmark; Exterior affiliate professor, College Faculty Copenhagen, Emergency and Danger Administration. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions, and within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

ETHIOPIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY

Meggist Menil Abetew

Posthumous award

He was a volunteer ambulance driver, from the Amhara Pink Cross regional department of the Ethiopian Pink Cross Society, who was shot useless in October 2022 within the Tigray area.

Amidekrose Aregaw Gebiru

Posthumous award

He was a volunteer ambulance driver, from the Tigray regional department of the Ethiopian Pink Cross Society, who was shot useless in November 2021 within the Tigray area.

CROIX-ROUGE FRANÇAISE

Marie-Esther Rouffet

Infirmière diplômée. Membre de la Fee nationale du recours et de d’arbitrage et du Comité d’orientation prospectif de la Croix-Rouge française. Est à l’initiative d’unprojet d’accompagnement psychologique des mother and father et des enfants lors de conditions difficiles.

GERMAN RED CROSS

Susanne Serry

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions, with the German Pink Cross and the ICRC.

ICELANDIC RED CROSS

Guðbjörg Sveinsdottir

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions, notably with the IFRC and the ICRC with a robust deal with psychological well being.

ITALIAN RED CROSS

Franca Caporali Vaglio

Registered nurse. Energetic within the areas of public well being and nursing training. Quite a few worldwide deployments with the Italian Pink Cross.

JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY

Miki Takahara

Registered nurse. Deputy Nursing Director of the Japanese Pink Cross Society Himeji Hospital. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions.

Tomoko Kusama

Registered nurse. Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Healthcare College and of Oita College of Nursing and Well being Sciences. Energetic within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

Setsuko Imamura

Registered nurse. Director of “Setsueikai”, a Basis offering scholarships to nursing college students who want to develop their profession in greater training. Energetic within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

NIGERIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY

Chinwe Lawrence-Uchenna

Registered nurse. Senior Workers Nurse with the Royal Berkshire NHS Fondation Belief, previously Well being Coordinator of the Anambra state department of the Nigerian Pink Cross Society.

NORWEGIAN RED CROSS

Åge Bøyum

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions notably with the Norwegian Refugee Council, the IFRC, the ICRC and the Norwegian Pink Cross.

Hilde Marie Nilsen

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions notably with the IFRC, the ICRC and the Norwegian Pink Cross.

SAUDI RED CRESCENT AUTHORITY

Abdulmajeed Alanazi

Registered nurse. Energetic within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

SLOVAK RED CROSS

Margita Kosturíková

Posthumous award

Registered nurse. Was energetic within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

CROIX-ROUGE SUISSE

Pascal Hundt

Infirmier diplômé. Actif dans des conditions de crises et de conflits pour le CICR.

TANZANIA RED CROSS SOCIETY

Wilbroad William Rwenyagira

Registered nurse. Nurse Officer in Cost for Tanzania Pink Cross Society – Nduta Camp, Kigoma.

THE THAI RED CROSS SOCIETY

Shalaosri Sangiam

Registered nurse. Director of Nursing, Division of Nursing, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Energetic in public well being and disaster conditions.

UKRAINIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY

Larysa Kysil

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle conditions and within the space of public well being.

AMERICAN RED CROSS

Brandi Department

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle conditions and within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

Patricia Chappell

Registered nurse. Energetic in catastrophe conditions and within the areas of public well being and nursing training.

Carlos Mendoza

Registered nurse. Energetic in battle and catastrophe conditions.