Have any Nurse received a Nobel Prize in medicine or healthcare till now?

Nursing is a profession which is hard to define but it’s something where both heart and head is used. Though, Nobel prizes are given in the field of science, psychology, medicine and to those who have done something in the welfare of society. Yet, no nurse has won a Nobel Prize. How sad it is that nursing leaders are not recognized or appreciated.

 Just because of nursing researchers and innovators only, the bedside nurses are able to provide proper and improved care to the patients. Nurses are the one who bought a change in the world by improving community health and increasing breast-feeding among critically ill new-borns. Nurses have always been in health research and breast-feeding among critically ill new-borns. They have improved the management of life-threatening pain and saved countless lives through innovations.

For instance, Florence Nightingale’s statistical analysis, sanitary reforms and structural change transformed the operation of hospitals, military health care and public health systems worldwide.Even, Mary Breckinridge established Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky that saved the lives of numerous mothers and children. It also served as a global model for rural health care delivery.

In today’s era, nurses like Susie Kim and Elizabeth Ngugi are doing exordinary work in healthcare. Susie Kim developed new psychiatric treatments and cost-effective mental health centres for the developing world while Elizabeth Ngugi saved number of lives by changing how AIDS care is delivered and studied in ostracized communities.

Thus, nurses are integral part of our life. Their efforts and works both need recognition. It’s our duty to care that nurses must win international prizes. As nurses’ profession is not getting valued so it is leading to migration of nurses from the neediest countries and also facing shortage of nurses. Hence, if nurses are recognized through a Nobel Prize then it would not only strengthen the nursing profession but also help to resolve the world's critical nursing shortage.