Pia Bauer (5 February 1871 – 10 December 1954) was a nurse in a cancer hospital[1] who has a German award named for her.[2]

In 1933 she received the Florence Nightingale Medal, awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian victims of a conflict or disaster" or "exemplary services or a creative and pioneering spirit in the areas of public health or nursing education".[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ludwik Hirszfeld; Marta A. Balińska; William Howard Schneider (2010). Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life. University Rochester Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-1-58046-338-6.
  2. ↑ "Pia Bauer Preis 2015 - KOK – Konferenz Onkologischer Kranken- und Kinderkrankenpflege". Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Trägerinnen der Florence-Nightingale-Medaille ..." Landesarchiv Baden-Wurttemburg. Retrieved 21 September 2017. Description of a photograph identifying Pau as 1933 recipient


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