Now Accepting Nominations for Awards
We are now accepting nominations for the Drs. Kristine Debbie & Mary Ann Lavin Founders Award and the Unique Contribution Award. Who among your peers best meets the criteria for these awards?
Nominations will be accepted online until December 31, 2024, at midnight EST.
Drs. Kristine Gebbie & Mary Ann Lavin Founders Award
The Founders Award is presented by the NANDA-I Board of Directors to those individuals who have made a lasting, internationally-reaching contribution to education, implementation, development, research, and/or informatics applications of nursing diagnoses.
In 2023, to recognize our 50th anniversary, this award was renamed to the Dr. Kristine Gebbie & Dr. Mary Ann Lavin Founders Award.
2021 Recipients
- Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, RN, PhD, FNI
- Susan Genarro, PhD, RN, FAAN
2023 Recipients
- Emilia Campos de Carvalho, PhD, RN, FNI
- Shigemi Kamitsuru, PhD, RN, FNI
Unique Contribution Award
The Unique Contribution Award is presented by the NANDA-I Board of Directors to those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of nursing diagnosis and the Association.
2021 Recipients
- Sílvia Caldeira PhD, MSc, RN
- Camila Takao Lopes, PhD, RN, FNI
- Viviane Silva, PhD, RN, FNI
- Christopher J. Grillo, M. Ed., MBA, BS
2023 Recipients
- Maryanne Kirby, BS
- Steven Constantine, MS-MIS, BS
- Thomas Wahhab, MS, BA
- Michael Wachinger, PhD
- Susan Gallagher-Lepak, PhD, RN
NANDA-I Living Legend Award
In addition, NANDA-I Fellows will be able to nominate another Fellow for the distinguished NANDA-I Living Legend Award.
NANDA-I Living Legends are recognized for the multiple contributions they have made to nursing knowledge, standardized nursing language, and the nursing profession throughout the world. This award honors extraordinary contributions to the important work of standardized nursing language and nursing knowledge development, sustained over the course of their careers.
2023 Recipients
- Mary Ann Lavin, PhD, RN
- Dorothy Jones, Ed.D., RNC, ANP, FAAN
