Connecting Nurses announces the Care Challenge innovation award winners

Twenty nurses from across the world won awards for their outstanding innovations offering the recipients an opportunity to develop their project and to communicate it globally. The UK winner, Jacquie Brodie, received her award for making improvements in communications on her 30-bed NHS ward.

Care Challenge is part of the Connecting Nurses program, an international initiative to champion the extraordinary accomplishments of nurses and health care professionals all over the world though highlighting innovative nurses and their care solutions.

The winning initiatives were selected for their potential to have a real impact on prevention, health and nurses’ own development. The RCN’s alliance, the International Council of Nurses is a charter member of the Connecting Nurses steering committee and participant in the independent Care Challenge adjudication process.

The winners are:

Vincent Kokou Kouami, Togo: Help nurses take care of stomata, chronic wounds and burned victims in Togo
Alvin Cloyd Dakis, Philippines: pod.RN (The Nurses' Podcast Project)
Marilyn Wideman, USA: Prenatal & Postparthum health center for at risk pregnant and parenting youth
Patty Hewson, USA: HIV Education and support for orphans and their caretakers in Cameroon
Jose Cote, Canada: Living with a chronic disease : VIH- TAVIE - a virtual support for nurses
Youhoyère Josiane Koudou, Ivory Coast: Worker involvement into the support of hypertension and diabetes in the workplace
Ibe Chinomnso Traffine, Nigeria: Let’s save our mothers
Micheline Quesnel-Deshayes, France: Volunteer patients involvement in following the education of diabetics
Latifa Alahiane, Morocco: Implementation of a nursing accompanying system for patients at the diagnosis of cancer
Ralueke Ekezie, Nigeria: Home care nursing services
Mark White, Ireland: Integrating epilepsy care in Ireland through advanced nurse practice
Nkwan Jacob Gobte, Cameroon: Using local technology and resources to promote infection prevention in Banso Baptist Hospital
Hicham Hilali, Morocco: Nurse assistance for women who underwent mastectomy due to breast cancer
Michael Joseph Dino, Philippines: Research-based community telehealth centres for sustainable elderly empowerment
Jacquie Brodie, UK: Compassionate communication
Mireia Artola Ramon, Spain: Proper reading can make life better – the importance of reading food labels
Miguel Padilha, Portugal: Self-Care management in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Brigitte Galand, Canada: Reduction programme of non pertinent physical restraints
Rinda Hartner, Canada: Sexual education method for teenagers with ADHD