Awards:

  • The Order of Polonia Restituta – the Knight’s Cross
  • The Warsaw Rising Cross
  • The Medal for the 1939 Defensive War
  • The Silver Cross of Merit
  • The National Education Medal
  • The Polish Nurses’ Association Honorary Badge
  • The Polish Red Cross Honorary Badge – 2nd level
  • The Distinction for Model Work in Health Care
  • The Medals for 10th and 40th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of Poland

The honorary title – the Merited for Nation’s Health (given by the Council of State of the Republic of Poland

The title of Honorary Member of the Royal British Nurses’ Association 1980 – awarded for particular and permanent contributions into the nursing development

Education:

  • The University School for Nurses and Health Assistants in Cracow – 1929
  • The Toronto University – the Rockefeller Foundation grant holder – a 1 year postgraduate course in public health and hospital administration 1934-1936
  • The Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy – paedagogical education 1936/37 – 1945/46 and
  • The University School of Nursing and Midwifery in Cracow – 1948

Work:

  • Teacher in the University School for Nurses and Hygienists in Cracow, in the Warsaw Nursing School, she organized an underground School of Nursing and Midwifery in Warsaw
  • Senior adviser in the Ministry of Health
  • Head of the Program Department in the Ministry of Health
  • Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Research 1956-1969
  • Manager of the Teachers’ Education Centre at the Teachers’ College within the Medical Junior High Schools in Warsaw
  • Co-founder of the Polish Nurses’ Association
  • Member of the Management Board Presidium of the Polish Nurses’ Association (long time)
  • Founder and president of the Historical Commission at the PNA Management Board
  • Initiator of the Nursing Contest for students and President of the Contest Main Committee since 1967
  • Nursing experts at WHO 1963-1973
  • Member of the Management Board of the International Council of Nurses 1966-1977

One of the initiators of academic education for nurses (1969). Initiator and manager of language-education holiday courses. During the WWII she participated in the September campaigned, in resistance and the Home Army (alias „Rózia”, „Jadwiga”).

Sprawozdanie ze Zjazdu Międzynarodowej Rady Pielęgniarek w Atlantyk City 1947

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