Prof. Gaworska-Krzemińska awarded by Minister of Health

13.11.2023

With the Individual Award of the Minister of Health for significant achievements in the field of teaching activities, including activity in the work of advisory teams on the development of changes to the Standard of education preparing for the profession of nurse and midwife, was honored Dr. Habil. Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Division of Nursing Management, Acting Director of the Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, Deputy Dean for Promotion and Development of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Medical University of Gdańsk. The award has been presented on 10th of November 2023 by Deputy Minister of Health Piotr Bromber in the presence of the MUG’s Rector Prof. Marcin Gruchała.

from the left: Rector Prof. Marcin Gruchała, Prof. Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska, Deputy Minister of Health Piotr Bromber

Professor Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska is Vice-Chairman of the National Accreditation Council for Schools of Nursing and Midwifery (Krajowa Rada Akredytacyjna Szkół Pielęgniarek i Położnych, KRASzPiP) in the 2021-2025 term and chaired the work of the ministerial team to develop changes to the list of fields of nursing and fields applicable to health care in which specialization and qualification courses may be conducted. She is the initiator and co-creator of the introduction in Poland of the authorization to write prescriptions for nurses and midwives and the ICNP terminology.

A graduate of the Faculty of Nursing at the Medical University of Poznań and postgraduate studies in Hospital Management at the Jagiellonian University, Biostatistics at the Jagiellonian University, Pedagogy at the University of Gdańsk, as well as numerous training and postgraduate courses in Poland and abroad. She was an EU and Hope Project scholarship holder in the field of health care management in Sweden, the Netherlands, England, Germany and Hungary. She represented Polish nursing in the structures of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the European Group of Nurse Researchers. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Polish newspaper Problemy Pielęgniarstwa (Problems of Nursery), Vice-President of the Polish Nursing Association, and Chairwoman of the Scientific Council of the Polish Nursing Association.

photo by Paweł Sudara/MUG