The award, presented by Sweden's Queen Silvia, recognizes Nowakowski's innovative project Stefania, which uses artificial intelligence to improve communication with patients suffering from dementia.
According to Swedish Care International, which organizes the competition, between 600,000 and 700,000 people in Poland are currently living with dementia, a number expected to rise as the population ages.
Nowakowski, who works as a nurse at the Neurology Clinic of the Central Clinical Hospital in Warsaw, was honored with a diploma, a scholarship of EUR 6,000 and an internship opportunity.
In addition to Nowakowski, nurses and nursing students from Sweden, Finland, Germany, Lithuania and the United States were presented with awards.
This year marked the 10th edition of the Queen Silvia Nursing Award, and Poland has participated in eight of them.
Nearly 170 Polish nurses and nursing students competed in the most recent round of the competition.
Queen Silvia of Sweden is known for her advocacy for elderly care, particularly for individuals suffering from dementia, a disease that was diagnosed in her mother in the 1990s.
The award, created in the Swedish queen's honor, seeks to promote innovative solutions for improving the quality of care for dementia patients.
(rt/gs)
Source: PAP