President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards for the year 2022 and 2023 to the nursing professionals at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Key points
- Thirty nursing professionals were awarded the prestigious award for their dedication, duty and service to the community.
- The National Florence Nightingale Awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by the nurses and nursing professionals to the society.
- These are given in the honour of Florence Nightingale who is revered as the founder of modern nursing.
- The award is named after Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a British nurse, social reformer and statistician, who is remembered as the founder of modern nursing due to her tireless work that ensured that patients in her care had all they needed to get well.
- She also proposed the Environmental Theory that transformed nursing by establishing sanitary working environments for patients and nurses.
