Susan Hassmiller Receives Florence Nightingale Medal
RWJF Senior Adviser for Nursing Awarded Nursing's Highest International Honor
Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., is one of three U.S. nurses chosen by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to receive the 42nd Florence Nightingale Medal, nursing’s highest international honor. The medal is awarded every two years, with 28 medals presented this year among 15 nations. RWJF Website - July 6, 2009
Hassmiller began volunteering with the Red Cross following the 1975 earthquake in Mexico. The Red Cross helped her locate her parents, who were visiting Mexico at the time. Hassmiller has since been a volunteer involved in Red Cross disaster relief efforts in the United States and abroad, including tornadoes in the Midwest, Hurricane Andrew, September 11th, the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
Hassmiller holds the position of senior adviser for nursing with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton and is currently on loan to the Institute of Medicine as director of the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing.
