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
- Call for the Use of Axial Terms: Toward Completeness of NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses Labels (July, 2019) Susana Miguel RN, MSc; Joana Romeiro RN, MSc; Helga Martins RN, MSc; Tiago Casaleiro RN, MSc, MRS; Sílvia Caldeira, PhD, MSc, RN; T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, FNI, FAAN
2023 Recipient
- An integrative review of comprehensive nursing assessment tools developed based on Gordon's Eleven Functional Health Patterns (October, 2021) Rita de Cassia Gengo e Silva Butcher PhD and Dorothy A. Jones EdD, APRN, FAAN, FNI