{"id":7599,"date":"2025-05-31T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:03:15","slug":"national-florence-nightingale-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-florence-nightingale-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"National Florence Nightingale Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-9ao8nt\">\n<div class=\"ck-content\">\n<h2>National Florence Nightingale Award Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the President of India presented the National Florence Nightingale Awards for the year 2025 to the nurses at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/p>\n<h2>About National Florence Nightingale Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was instituted by the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Health and Family Welfare<\/strong>, Government of India in the year 1973.<\/li>\n<li>It is a prestigious award given to\u00a0<strong>outstanding nursing personnel<\/strong>\u00a0employed in\u00a0<strong>Central, State\/UTs and Voluntary Organizations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was awarded as a mark of recognition for the\u00a0<strong>meritorious services<\/strong>\u00a0rendered by the nurses and nursing professionals to the society.<\/li>\n<li>The nurse in her\/his regular job in the hospital or community settings, educational or administrative setting is eligible for the national award.<\/li>\n<li>Each award consists of a Certificate of Merit,\u00a0<strong>Cash Award of Rs.1,00,000\/- and a medal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who is Florence Nightingale?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Florence Nightingale was an\u00a0<strong>English social reformer,<\/strong>\u00a0statistician and the founder of modern nursing.<\/li>\n<li>Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses\u00a0<strong>during the Crimean War<\/strong>, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.<\/li>\n<li>Her efforts to formalize nursing education led her to establish the first scientifically based nursing school\u2014the Nightingale School of Nursing, at St. Thomas\u2019 Hospital in London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>National Florence Nightingale Award FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What award did Florence Nightingale win?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0In 1883, Nightingale was awarded the Royal Red Cross by Queen Victoria. In 1907, she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Which ministry has the National Florence Nightingale Award?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2132607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"print-no download-and-share\">\n<div class=\"MuiStack-root css-lhwv2l\">\n<div class=\"css-1h5x3dy\">\n<div class=\"MuiStack-root content css-1l2ehbf\">\n<div class=\"flex\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Florence Nightingale Award was instituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in the year 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[650,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-national-florence-nightingale-award","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}