The honorary conferring was part of the
Glocalisation in Healthcare - Nurses and Midwives thinking globally and acting locally to drive the policy and educational agenda event hosted by DCU.
Delivering the citation for
Annette Kennedy, Dr. Daniela Lehwaldt, DCU School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, said:
“Annette has always been a leader - from her days as a nurse tutor, to her time as head of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, to her current position as President of the International Council of Nurses, representing around 20 million nurses in 130 countries worldwide.
Her approach to leadership brings to mind the well known Irish expression, Ní neart go cur le chéile”, roughly translated as, “there is no strength without unity”. Indeed, her watchword for her term as ICN President is “Together”. Annette is about bringing people together, and empowering them. As she told nurses in a recent ICN address, “together we can change the worl