Florence Nightingale Medal: a century of nursing excellence
12-05-2012 Photo gallery
Exactly a century ago, the Florence Nightingale Medal was instituted by the ICRC. It is the highest international distinction that can be awarded to a nurse. On the occasion of International Nurses Day (12 May – also Florence Nightingale's birthday), the ICRC looks back at 100 years of nursing excellence from around the world.
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"The Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest distinction that can be awarded to a nurse, represents the professional body of work of all those nurses and nursing aides that have been working for many years under very difficult circumstances – in situations of conflict, natural disaster and other emergencies.
I am very honoured to preside over this Commission and I hope that this award will continue to recognize for many years to come the unrelenting work of nurses and nursing aides in extraordinary situations such as armed conflict.
I think it is important for the ICRC to have greater access to nurses in countries that don't have the infrastructure required to present nominees to the Florence Nightingale Medal Commission. These countries are for the most part in Latin America and Africa."
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Her Majesty the Queen honours the ceremony with her presence on 31 May 1930. During the ceremony, she bestowes the Florence Nightingale Medal upon duchess Elisabetta Cito di Torrecuso.
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