YSN Alumna, Dr Margretta Madden Styles Receives Nursing's Most Prestigious International Award
New Haven, CT — February 15, 2005
The International Council of Nurses announced last month that Dr Margretta Madden Styles, a nurse scholar renowned globally as an international leader in nursing education, regulation and credentialing, has been awarded the 2005 Christiane Reimann Prize for her remarkable achievements and contributions to the nursing profession internationally. The Christiane Reimann Prize is known worldwide as nursing's most top international award recognizing outstanding nursing achievement.
Dr. Styles received her MN degree from the Yale School of Nursing in 1954. As a past president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), "Gretta" Styles has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to leadership in nursing. She was the architect of the first comprehensive study of nursing credentialing in the 1970s, and an innovator and pioneer in defining this critical work that recognizes and differentiates quality in all aspects of nursing practice. In the 1980s, she spearheaded ICN's definitive work on nursing regulation, including the publication of a guidebook on nursing regulation. Always an original thinker Dr. Styles is the author of many other articles and books, including, On Nursing: A Literary Celebration, which has inspired nurses around the world.
"We are delighted to honour Gretta Styles," said ICN President, Christine Hancock. "Her enthusiastic and charismatic leadership has encouraged nurses to strive for health care excellence around the world. The humility and devotion that she brings to her work honours all nurses."
The Christiane Reimann Prize epitomizes the values and standards that define ICN as the leader in nursing internationally. Awarded every four years, the Prize has previously been won by Virginia Henderson, "the world's most beloved nurse"; Dame Nita Barrow, an expert in public health and health education; Dame Sheila Quinn, a leader in establishing the position of nursing within Europe and improving nursing education throughout Europe; Dr Mo-Im Kim, for enhancing the nursing profession at national and international levels; and Dr Hildegard Peplau, for her revolutionary work in patient-nurse relationships which set the groundwork for the speciality of psychiatric nursing.
The Christiane Reimann Prize will be awarded officially to Dr Margretta Madden Styles in May 2005 during the opening ceremony of the ICN 23rd Quadrennial Congress in Taiwan.
