Nurses In Action Ambassador Helen Zahos, has been named the winner of multiple Stevie® Awards in the 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. This year’s Stevie Award winners we honoured at a virtual awards ceremony attended by 400 women and their guests from around the world.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honour female executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run, and have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.
“In between night shifts and off to the receive the Stevie awards that I was awarded earlier this year. Thanks to @lauren_clemett and @annettedensham from the Audacious Agency who brought Las Vegas to the Gold Coast since we couldn’t travel there to receive the awards. As tired and exhausted as I was, I felt truly honoured to receive the awards in front of some amazing people who are legends in their own right,” Ms Zahos wrote on Facebook.
Helen has received the awards ‘Mentor of the Year’, ‘Female Innovator of the Year’, ‘Woman of the Year’ and ‘Medical Hero of the Year’, for her work and humanitarian efforts during the past 12 months and beyond. This includes recognition for her work in Kenya earlier this year on World Youth International’s Nurses In Action program.
“In celebration of Year of the Nurse, I marked the beginning of 2020 with a trip to Kenya on the Nurses In Action Volunteer Program. It opened my eyes like never before,” she said when she received the awards, earlier this year.
“I saw that we can empower the next generation of nurses by encouraging the sharing of skills and knowledge across cultures. By caring for some of the world’s most vulnerable people in Kenya, alongside Kenyan Nurses and Midwives, I learnt more than what I could physically give, particularly due to the lack of medical supplies, equipment and facilities. I often couldn’t escalate care due to the limitations of the available equipment, and this was heartbreaking, but also highlighted that we have a long way to go in achieving the United Nation’s ‘Sustainable Development Goal 3; ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all,” reflects Helen.
Ms Zahos then dedicated these awards to her nursing peers across the globe, and in particular the frontline workers:
“The word hero, particularly during this pandemic, is a word we frontline workers don’t like to hear because we are out there just doing our job. It’s a job we are committed to and which we love. I dedicate these awards to all Nurses and Midwives everywhere, but especially to the thousands of nurses on the pandemic front-lines who have lost their lives battling covid-19.”
“Being a Nurse means that I can care and help people that are in their most vulnerable state. I love to advocate for patients and give them a voice that they otherwise wouldn’t have. I like to inspire those that want to get into humanitarian nursing and also inspire student nurses to show them where nursing as a career can take them. I have loved watching how the nursing profession has evolved over the last 20 years and am proud of the standards that we have achieved in Australia.”
