Three Chinese "angels in white" won the 48th Nightingale Award

International Online Report (Reporter Wei Yu): The Nightingale Award is an international honor awarded to outstanding nursing workers from all over the world, which recognizes their outstanding achievements and dedication in peacetime or wartime. The reporter recently learned from the Red Cross Society of China that three Chinese "angels in white" won the 48th Nightingale Award.

Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and nursing education, and the Nightingale Prize, the highest international honor for encouraging nurses from all over the world, is also named after her. Since 1912, the Nightingale Medal has been awarded every two years, with no more than 50 medals at a time. Since their first selection in 1983, 83 outstanding nursing workers in China have received this honor.

This year, three "angels in white" in China won the 48th Nightingale Award, namely Cheng Shouzhen, director of the Nursing Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Hu Minhua, chief nurse of the Ninth Hospital of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, and De Yali, chief nurse of the intensive care unit of Qingyang People's Hospital in Gansu Province. Although they come from different regions, all three winners have experience in fighting the epidemic.

After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Cheng Shouzhen, director of the nursing department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, led a medical team of 131 people to fight in the frontline of Wuhan for 61 days, saving one life after another with superb nursing technology.

Cheng Shouzhen said: "The patients admitted to the ward are extremely serious, and some patients are multi-organ failure, not only with ventilators to support, but also with CRRT (continuous kidney replacement therapy), and possibly PICCO hemodynamic monitoring, this place requires the very comprehensive experience of nurses." ”

After returning from Wuhan, Cheng Shouzhen went to Serbia as a member of the expert group to support the fight against the epidemic and was awarded the highest honor of Serbia.

Hu Minhua, chief nurse at the Ninth Hospital in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, is a nursing worker who has been working on the frontline of the fight against AIDS for more than 20 years. After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, she and her colleagues went to the frontline of the fight against the epidemic in Hubei.

Recalling the scene at that time, Hu Minhua still remembered it vividly: "At that time, there were some bumpy things for you, some obstacles for you, and then you had to hold the steering wheel tightly, how not to let him overturn, how not to let the chain break down..."

De Yali, chief nurse of the intensive care unit of Qingyang People's Hospital in Gansu Province, went to Wuhan for 53 days to fight the epidemic last year, and she successively participated in the treatment of the Houhu Branch of Wuhan Central Hospital and the Intensive Care Ward of the West Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and participated in the care of 278 patients with new coronary pneumonia, including 156 patients with severe and critical illness.

Recalling the resolute rush at that time, she said that it was only her duty, "I have more work experience, and my physical fitness is better." As the head nurse, this is also my work responsibility and my work mission. ”

In recent years, the team of nurses in China has continued to grow, and the ability level and professional quality of nurses have also been continuously improved. Wang Ping, vice president and secretary general of the Red Cross Society of China, said that the three winners are not only outstanding representatives of more than 28,000 "angels in white" who have aided Hubei, but also advanced models for more than 4.7 million nursing workers across the country, demonstrating the Red Cross spirit of "humanity, fraternity and dedication" and the Nightingale spirit of "extraordinary courage".