Chen Ching-min (陳靜敏), head of the Taiwan Nurses’ Association, on Monday was inducted as a fellow of the nursing faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the first Taiwanese ever to receive the distinction.
Chen, who teaches in National Cheng Kung University’s Department of Nursing, was inducted into the Irish institute’s Fellowship of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery for her outstanding service to nursing.
Chen told the ceremony that she looked forward to promoting exchanges and cooperation on public health between university’s College of Medicine, the association and the institute, said Representative to Ireland Yang Tzu-pao (楊子葆), who attended the event.
Photo courtesy of the Taipei Representative Office in Ireland
Chen has been dedicated to nursing education in Taiwan since returning from the US in 1995 after completing her doctoral studies in nursing at Indiana University.
She was recently elected as a board member of the American Academy of Nursing.
Chen was also an at-large legislator for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) from 2018 to 2020, and is expected to take the legislator-at-large seat left vacant by the DPP’s Chou Chun-mi (周春米), who was elected Pingtung County commissioner in the local government elections on Nov. 26.
The institute is a medical professional and educational entity established in 1784 as the national body for the surgical branch of medicine in Ireland, with a role in supervision of training.
International Council of Nurses president Pamela Cipriano, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur are among its fellows.
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