The Nurse of the Year Competition 2019 – XV edition Innovations of the year 2019 in the field of improving the quality of nursing care

The Nurse of the Year Competition has been organised by the Main Board of the Polish Nursing Association (PNA) and the Nursing Leaders’ Association since 2005. Every year, patronage over the Nurse of the Year Competition is provided by the Mini-ster of Health and the President of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives, as well as key PNA partners in the field of heal-thcare.
The overriding goal of the competition was to select some of the innovations implemented in 2019 in the area of nursing practice or work organisation of nursing teams, which improve the quality of health services and patients’ safety.
These ideas had to be characterised by originality, with full copyright to the concept and the implemented solutions. Fur-thermore, the implemented solutions were required to be supported by evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP). The submit-ted innovations had to be more effective than the previous solutions and be verified by research or analytical methods.
Due to the fact that society, especially health care workers, has to function in a state of epidemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it was necessary to abandon the multi-stage convention of the competition, and the winners were selected only on the basis of the evaluation of the competition projects by the Competition Jury, consisting of the following people: Greta Kanownik, RN, PhD – Director of the Department of Nurses and Midwives in the Ministry of Health, Zofia Małas, RN, MSc – President of the Main Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, Krystyna Ptok, RN, MSc – Chairperson of the National Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives, Alicja Szewczyk, RN, MSc – President of the Polish Federation of Education in Diabetology, Barbara Jobda, RN, MSc – President of the Polish Association of Oncological Nurses, Iwona Mazur, PhD – President of the Association of Healthcare Managers, Stanisław Maćkowiak, MSc – President of the Federation of Polish Patients, Grażyna Wójcik, RN, PhD – President of the Main Board of the Polish Nurses Association, Anna Andruszkiewicz, RN, PhD – Secreta-ry of the Main Board of the Polish Nursing Society, and Bożena Gorzkowicz, RN, PhD – a member of the Main Board of the PNA and a Chairperson of the Competition Committee responsible for the proper conduct of the assessment.
The substantive evaluation of the applications was carried out according to strictly defined criteria taking into account the following: the novelty of the project in relation to the...


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