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Congratulations to Nuala Harkin who received the ADEA Honorary Life Membership Award 2022 in recognition of her outstanding and innovative contribution, within Australia and internationally, to diabetes care and education for young people with diabetes. The Honorary Life Membership Award is the most prestigious ADEA award and is bestowed upon one member every year. This year’s Award was presented at the Australasian Diabetes Congress in Brisbane.
Nuala Harkin is both a citizen of Australia and Ireland. She started her career as a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then gained a second qualification as a Registered General Nurse in Waterford, Ireland. Nuala’s background is in Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing, having worked in Great Ormond Street, London, and then at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin, before fulfilling a lifetime dream to come to Australia. She commenced work in the Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney in 1996. She moved into the area of paediatric/adolescent diabetes in January 2000 and became a Credentialled Diabetes Nurse Educator.
Nuala became the first Nurse Practitioner in the area of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes in Australia, becoming authorised in August 2004, and has been working in a full-time position at the Children’s Hospital Westmead ever since. ‘It has been 22 years and I cannot imagine working anywhere else. I feel very thankful and privileged to work with such an amazing team,’ says Nuala.
She has been involved in research, been a co-author on a number of publications, completed book reviews, and presented her research at both national and international level.
Nuala is also passionate about her humanitarian work and has been involved in strengthening the healthcare systems at the Children’s Hospitals in Vietnam to provide comprehensive diabetes education and care for children living with diabetes.
She is a past president of ADEA and a well-respected member of our community.
Click here to learn more about the ADEA Honorary Life Membership Award.
Congratulations to Nuala Harkin who received the ADEA Honorary Life Membership Award 2022 in recognition of her outstanding and innovative contribution, within Australia and internationally, to diabetes care and education for young people with diabetes. The Honorary Life Membership Award is the most prestigious ADEA award and is bestowed upon one member every year. This year’s Award was presented at the Australasian Diabetes Congress in Brisbane.
Nuala Harkin is both a citizen of Australia and Ireland. She started her career as a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then gained a second qualification as a Registered General Nurse in Waterford, Ireland. Nuala’s background is in Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing, having worked in Great Ormond Street, London, and then at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin, before fulfilling a lifetime dream to come to Australia. She commenced work in the Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney in 1996. She moved into the area of paediatric/adolescent diabetes in January 2000 and became a Credentialled Diabetes Nurse Educator.
Nuala became the first Nurse Practitioner in the area of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes in Australia, becoming authorised in August 2004, and has been working in a full-time position at the Children’s Hospital Westmead ever since. ‘It has been 22 years and I cannot imagine working anywhere else. I feel very thankful and privileged to work with such an amazing team,’ says Nuala.
She has been involved in research, been a co-author on a number of publications, completed book reviews, and presented her research at both national and international level.
Nuala is also passionate about her humanitarian work and has been involved in strengthening the healthcare systems at the Children’s Hospitals in Vietnam to provide comprehensive diabetes education and care for children living with diabetes.
She is a past president of ADEA and a well-respected member of our community.
Click here to learn more about the ADEA Honorary Life Membership Award.
