Adrian Nowakowski's award-winning project
The jury recognized the laureate's visionary idea, as well as passion and commitment to improving nursing care and education. As highlighted on the competition's website, "particularly noteworthy is the openness of the laureate, who, while working in the nursing profession, additionally studies information technology to be able to use new technologies to support the work of nurses. This confirms how attractive and non-obvious the nursing profession is."
Adrian Nowakowski explains that Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence are advanced tools that can understand and generate natural language, as well as play an assigned role.
- The competition idea is to give phantoms located in nursing labs speech functions and create an AI-based platform to conduct virtual conversations with patients - the winner says. This will make it possible to learn and train how to communicate effectively with geriatric patients both in classes at the university and independently, for example at home.
Congratulations!
In the final of the eighth edition of the Queen Silvia Nursing Award Poland, in addition to Adrian Nowakowski, the following took part: Aleksandra Gierszewska, Academy of Applied Sciences in Raciborz, Natalia Raczyńska, Pratia Clinical Research Center, Ewelina Mital, Independent Public Health Care Facility in Kraśnik, Jolanta Gortak, CM Vita-Medica Warsaw, and Iwona Skorek, State Academy of Applied Sciences in Włocławek.
About Queen Silvia Nursing Award
The Queen Silvia Nursing Award competition has an international character. Its parallel editions are held in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, the University of Washington in the US as well as in Brazil. The event is supported by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden. The Polish edition is under the patronage of the Ministry of Health and the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives.
The goal of the competition is to encourage nurses and nursing students in Poland to seek innovative ideas that can help solve our society's most pressing health problems. Both practicing nurses and nursing students can enter the competition.