Christiane Reimann

Christiane Elisabeth Reimann (6 May 1888, Copenhagen - 12 April 1979, Syracuse, Sicily) was a Danish nurse. She is especially remembered for being the first Danish nurse with a graduate degree in nursing. She was the first paid secretary of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The ICN's most prestigious award for nursing, the Christiane Reimann Prize, was established in her honor.

Early life and education Reimann was born on 6 May 1888 in Copenhagen, to stockbroker Carl Reimann and Margit Meisterlin. At the age of 25, and against her family's wishes, she trained as a nurse at a Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen.

1985: Virginia Henderson, USA 1989: Dame Nita Barrow, Barbados 1993: Dame Sheila Quinn, United Kingdom 1997: Dr Mo-Im Kim Kore, and Dr Hildegard Peplau, USA 2005: Dr Margretta Madden Styles, USA 2009: Dr Máximo A. González Jurado, Spain 2013: Kirsten Stallknecht, Denmark 2017: Dr Sheila Tlou, Botswana and Dr Linda Aiken, USA 2021: Dr Sheuan Lee, Taiwan Nurses Association