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.
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.
2021 Recipients
- Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, RN, PhD, FNI
- Susan Genarro, PhD, RN
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
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
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
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