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Nominations for 2025 will open on August 12, 2024.

 

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

NANDA International Living Legend Award

NANDA International recognizes a small group of fellows as Living Legends to honor their extraordinary contributions to the important work of standardized nursing language and nursing knowledge development, sustained over the course of their careers.

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.

Criteria

  • A Living Legend must be a Fellow in good standing and a member of NANDA International for at least 15 years.
  • They must be sponsored by two (2) NANDA-I Fellows in good standing.
  • A sponsor may only nominate ONE applicant as a Living Legend per year.

Nominations should address the following:

  • Describe the extraordinary and sustained contribution of the nominee as an exemplar and changemaker in nursing knowledge and standardized nursing language;
  • Share examples of how the nominee or nominee's work will have a positive, enduring impact internationally on improving nursing knowledge development and the use of standardized nursing language through their body of work.

Nomination and Sponsor Information\

  • Completed nomination form.
    Two (2) support letters, one from each sponsor (a NANDA-I Fellow) addressing the criteria for the Living Legend nominee, must be included from each of the sponsors
    in good standing.
  • A condensed biosketch or CV (may not exceed five pages) of the nominee should be submitted with the nomination.

2023 Recipient

  • Mary Ann Lavin, PhD, RN
  • Dorothy Jones, Ed.D., RNC, ANP, FAAN

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 contributions 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