The Red Cross Society of China held a press conference to introduce the awards of the 48th Nightingale Award. This year's Nightingale Prize has a total of 3 nurses in China, which is the country with the largest number of winners in the world.
The Nightingale Prize is an international honor awarded to outstanding nursing workers from around the world in recognition of their peacetime or wartime excellence and dedication. The Nightingale Medal is issued every two years under the auspices of the ICRC in Geneva.
Lawrence Nightingale was a Mokee native of modern nursing and nursing education. From 1854 to 1856, Nightingale served as a field ambulance worker in the Crimean War, reducing the mortality rate of the wounded and sick from 50% to 2.2%, making an important contribution to improving the treatment and life of the wounded and sick. Every night, when she carried an oil lamp around the ward, the wounded and sick showed their reverence for her by kissing her figure and affectionately called her "lantern goddess".
In 1907, the 8th International Congress of the Red Cross in London recommended that you be awarded the Nightingale Medal as the highest international acclaim for encouraging nurses from all over the world. In 1912, the year after Nightingale's death, the 9th International Congress of the Red Cross in Washington was officially awarded the Nightingale Medal.
Award Rules: The Nightingale Medal is awarded every two years, no more than 50 medals at a time, and is awarded to outstanding nursing workers from all over the world (including those who have died in the line of duty) in recognition of their outstanding achievements and dedication in peacetime or wartime. After the list of winners is announced, a grand award ceremony will be held in that year, and the leaders of various countries will personally award the medals and publicize them in the society.
At present, it has been evaluated 48 times, and the first time china participated in it was the 29th session, and so far a total of 83 outstanding nurses have won awards.
The profiles of the winners of the 48th Nangel Prize in our country are as follows:
Cheng Shouzhen
Female, Han ethnicity, 59 years old, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, member of the Communist Party of China, engaged in nursing work for 40 years, director of the nursing department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
In 2003, he fought SARS and took the lead in introducing closed airway care technology into isolation wards to reduce the risk of infection. In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, he led the team to complete the task of treating 38 injured people. He has participated in helping Tibet and Xinjiang many times, and helped guide and train nursing staff. In early February 2020, as the interim general secretary of the party branch of the Medical Team of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, he led 131 people to the frontline of Wuhan to fight the epidemic for 61 days. He went to the Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and took over two wards to treat 246 seriously ill patients. He brought the experience of medical and nursing joint rounds to Wuhan and personally intubated seriously ill patients. Later, as a member of the expert group, he went to Serbia to support the fight against the epidemic for 40 days. He was named an advanced individual in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the national health system and was awarded the highest honor medal of Serbia.
Hu Minhua
Female, Han ethnicity, 53 years old, from Nanchang, Jiangxi, a member of the Communist Party of China, engaged in nursing work for 33 years, chief nurse of the Ninth Hospital of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province.
He has been engaged in the frontline fight against AIDS for 21 years, caring for more than 3,000 AIDS patients. Participated in the establishment of the Jiangxi Provincial AIDS Treatment Center, led the establishment of an anti-AIDS volunteer service team, actively sought social assistance for "Aiyou", opened the "AIDS as a neighbor" Weibo and the "AIDS as a neighbor" WeChat public account, released more than 30,000 anti-AIDS information, patiently communicated and communicated with the "AIyou", and provided psychological counseling for 1,600 cases of AIDS-phobic, melancholy and suicidal patients. After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he went to the frontline of Wuhan to fight the epidemic and was awarded the title of "the most beautiful retrograde" by the Hubei Provincial People's Government.
De-Arya
Female, Han ethnicity, 47 years old, from Qingyang, Gansu, member of the Communist Party of China, engaged in nursing work for 26 years, chief nurse of the intensive care unit of Qingyang People's Hospital in Gansu Province.
In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, children from the neonatology department were transported safely in a timely manner. After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it became the first medical team in the hospital to sign up for the aid team. As the leader of the first batch of medical teams in Qingyang City, he went to Wuhan to fight the epidemic for 53 days, and successively participated in the rescue and treatment of the houhu branch of Wuhan Central Hospital and the critical ward of the West Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, wearing protective clothing for an average of more than 10 hours a day, and participating in the care of 278 patients with new coronary pneumonia, including 132 serious patients and 24 critically ill patients. He joined the Communist Party of China during the fight against the epidemic. In September 2020, he was awarded the title of "National Advanced Individual in Fighting the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic" by the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission.
Images are courtesy of the Red Cross Society of China
Author: Shen Shaotie
Source: People's Daily client