NANDA International Awards

Awards nominations for 2023 have closed. The Founders Award and Unique Contribution Award winners will be announced at the 50th Anniversary NANDA-I Conference on June 14-16, 2023, at Boston College.

Dr. Kristine Gebbie & Dr. 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 this year 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

Mentor Award

This is the highest honor awarded by NANDA-I, and is bestowed by the NANDA-I President. This award recognizes a nurse leader who significantly influenced the use of NANDA-I terminology within professional nursing practice, education, research, health policy, or informatics. This individual has been a formal or informal leader within NANDA-I, and has invested in the professional development of others.

2021 Recipient

  • Rosa Rifà Ros, PhD, RN

2023 Recipient

  • Shigemi Kamitsuru, PhD, RN, FNI

Editor's Award

This award recognizes outstanding contribution to the advancement of the NANDA-I journal.

2021 Recipient

  • Dorothy A. Jones, Ed.D, APRN, FNI, FAAN

2023 Recipient

  • Luca Bertocchi, PhD, RN

Rosemary Carroll Johnson Award

This award, presented by the Editor of The International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, acknowledges the best paper published during the previous two-year cycle of the journal.

2021 Recipient

2023 Recipient