One person was honored globally, she was 94 years old and won the award!

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International Council of Nurses

With Florence Nightingale

International Foundation Council Selection

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

Former Director of the Nursing Department of the First Hospital

Zhang Jinyuan, winner of the 39th Nightingale Medal

Won the 2023 International Achievement Award

It is understood

The award is the

One of the most prestigious awards in the health field

Awarded every two years

One nurse winner is selected each time around the world

More than 40 years of clinical nursing experience

Has more than 30 clinical inventions

Zhang Jinyuan was born in Nanchang

Early migration to Hong Kong

1949

After she learned that China was short of nurses,

I persuaded my husband

With my 6-month-old son

Back to Nanchang

Working at Nanchang First Hospital

I have never left nursing since then.

Zhang Jinyuan took a photo with nurses from the First Hospital of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

In the eyes of many people

There is no innovation in nursing work

But Zhang Jinyuan always studies hard

Explore and discover new nursing rules

In daily care work

She found that every time the nurse came to the ward to change the sheets

The patient always leaves the bed and runs out the door

After several inquiries

Only then did I realize that the patient was trying to avoid

Dust raised when changing quilt covers

So, I go home after get off work.

Zhang Jinyuan picked up the quilt and took it off and put it on again.

Finally developed the method of folding and making the bed

Still in clinical use

According to calculations, using the inner folding bed method

Dust raised was reduced by more than half

This is just one of Zhang Jinyuan's more than 30 nursing tasks.

One of the clinical inventions

She founded the theory of circuit nursing system

Also included in nursing textbooks

94-year-old is still active in volunteer service

The goal is to try to get more elderly people to live to 100 years old

After retirement

Zhang Jinyuan is still active in

Volunteer service on the front line

Now she is 94 years old.

The total number of volunteer service hours reached 26,055 hours

Zhang Jinyuan is on the front line of volunteer service

2000

71-year-old Zhang Jinyuan organized 16 retired colleagues

Spontaneously established the Jiangxi Red Cross Volunteer Nursing Service Center

Pioneering community volunteer service system

Extending nursing professional practice to the community

As of 2023

From the original 17 retired nurses

The current team of 19,251 volunteers

More than 350 communities

More than 700,000 people provided loving services

And extend the service model to

19 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country

The United States, Japan, etc.

Zhang Jinyuan with volunteers from the China Nightingale Volunteer Service Corps

“I originally set a goal

It is to take good care of 100 elderly people.

Trying to get more of them to live to 100

At the same time, in the process of volunteer service

Let everyone know how to be a healthy elderly

"Do what you can to contribute to the well-being of the elderly"

Talk about your biggest wish

Zhang Jinyuan said that it has been basically completed

Every year on the Double Ninth Festival

They will visit and congratulate these centenarians.

Mentioned as winner of the International Achievement Award

Zhang Jinyuan said

“Actually, I’m a nurse.

I am very happy to represent our Chinese nursing community.

Going global

Won this international honor

This is all thanks to the persistence and faith of everyone in our team."

pay tribute!

Congratulations to Grandma Zhang!