Jadwiga Kaniewska-Iżycka 1908 – 1988
Awards:
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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”).