National Florence Nightingale Awards 2025
Kartavya Desk Staff
Source: TP
Context: President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Florence Nightingale Awards 2025 to 15 exceptional nursing professionals at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
About National Florence Nightingale Awards 2025:
• What It Is? A prestigious national award recognizing meritorious services of nurses and midwives in India.
• A prestigious national award recognizing meritorious services of nurses and midwives in India.
• Awarded By: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
• Established: Instituted in the year 1973 as a tribute to Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
• Key Features: Award Components: Cash prize of ₹1,00,000. Medal and Certificate of Merit. Eligibility: Open to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM), Staff Nurses, Lady Health Visitors (LHV), and others engaged in nursing and public health services. Candidates are nominated by state governments, UTs, and healthcare institutions. Selection Process: Involves rigorous evaluation by expert panels from the health sector. Based on service record, dedication, innovation, and public health impact. Awardees 2025: Recognized nurses from 15 states and UTs including Delhi, Karnataka, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Notably includes the Devrani sisters from Uttarakhand for their four-decade-long service. Significance: Promotes excellence in the healthcare sector by motivating frontline workers. Highlights the role of nurses in public health, maternal care, immunization, and rural outreach. Strengthens the spirit of service, empathy, and dedication, especially in resource-limited settings. Encourages more youth to pursue nursing as a noble profession, essential to India’s health system resilience.
• Award Components: Cash prize of ₹1,00,000. Medal and Certificate of Merit.
• Cash prize of ₹1,00,000.
• Medal and Certificate of Merit.
• Eligibility: Open to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM), Staff Nurses, Lady Health Visitors (LHV), and others engaged in nursing and public health services. Candidates are nominated by state governments, UTs, and healthcare institutions.
• Open to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM), Staff Nurses, Lady Health Visitors (LHV), and others engaged in nursing and public health services.
• Candidates are nominated by state governments, UTs, and healthcare institutions.
• Selection Process: Involves rigorous evaluation by expert panels from the health sector. Based on service record, dedication, innovation, and public health impact.
• Involves rigorous evaluation by expert panels from the health sector.
• Based on service record, dedication, innovation, and public health impact.
• Awardees 2025: Recognized nurses from 15 states and UTs including Delhi, Karnataka, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Notably includes the Devrani sisters from Uttarakhand for their four-decade-long service.
• Recognized nurses from 15 states and UTs including Delhi, Karnataka, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Notably includes the Devrani sisters from Uttarakhand for their four-decade-long service.
• Significance: Promotes excellence in the healthcare sector by motivating frontline workers. Highlights the role of nurses in public health, maternal care, immunization, and rural outreach. Strengthens the spirit of service, empathy, and dedication, especially in resource-limited settings. Encourages more youth to pursue nursing as a noble profession, essential to India’s health system resilience.
• Promotes excellence in the healthcare sector by motivating frontline workers.
• Highlights the role of nurses in public health, maternal care, immunization, and rural outreach.
• Strengthens the spirit of service, empathy, and dedication, especially in resource-limited settings.
• Encourages more youth to pursue nursing as a noble profession, essential to India’s health system resilience.