Received the ‘International Achievement Award’ which is referred to as the Nobel Prize in the nursing professional circles with “Interpersonal Caring Theory”, contributed to the spread of hospice, and served in Malawi, Africa after retirement
(Late) Kim Su-sie
Honorary professor of Ewha Womans University (1942~2016)
- Academic background
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1960.03 ∼ 1963.12
Department of Nursing Science, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University
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1966.09 ∼ 1969.02
M.S., Department of Nursing, Graduate School of Ewha Womans University
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1975.09 ∼ 1978.05
Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc), Boston University
- Professional career
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1984.03 ∼ 2006.09
Professor, College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University
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2006.06 ∼ 2010.02
President of Seoul Cyber University
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2011.01 ∼ 2015.03
Principal of Daeyang Nursing College (located in Lilongwe, Malawi)
- Awards
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2001.06
International Achievement Award (ICN & Florence Nightingale International Foundation)
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2007.10
Nightingale Medal, International Federation of Red Cross
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2015.11
Grand Prize, Korean Female Leader Awards, YWCA & Citibank Korea
The first Ph. D. recipient in nursing science in Korea, who established the framework for the application of nursing in the field
Professor Su Sie Kim made a contribution to the fostering of domestic nursing educators and the development of nursing education as the first doctor of nursing science in Korea. After obtaining the doctoral degree of nursing science at Boston University, US (DNSc, 1978) and returning to Korea, she played a key role in founding the doctoral course of nursing science (1978) in the College of Nursing, Yonsei University for the first time in Korea. Utilizing the entire prize money of Distinguished Professor Honorarium from UCSF University as seed money, she has granted Susie Kim Fellowship to Korean nursing students in overseas graduate school every year since 1990 and tried to educate the nursing educator and researchers.
The greatest contribution of Professor Su Sie Kim was the contribution to the recovery of chronic mental patients and their quality of life. She created Interpersonal Caring Theory (ICT) and developed a nursing rehabilitation program for recovery and social adjustment of chronic mental patients left alone in the local communities, centering on 10 domains (noticing, participating, sharing, listening, companioning, complimenting, comforting, hoping, forgiving, and accepting). She introduced hospice care to take care of the patients to allow for them to meet comfort and dignified death for the first time in Korea and systematized training and organization of hospice volunteers. In 1995, she compiled the great encyclopedia of nursing science with about 2400 pages as a part of the 25th anniversary special commemorative project, during serving as the chairman of Korea Society of Nursing Science. She also tried to exchange with international nursing groups as a representative scholar of Korea. In 1984, she played an important role in co-hosting an international conference with Sigma Theta Tau International, an international honor society in the nursing area, as its member (Gamma Chapter).
Received the ‘International Achievement Award’ which is referred to as the Nobel Prize in the nursing professional circles with “Interpersonal Caring Theory” in 2001
Professor Su Sie Kim received the International Achievement Award, which is considered as the Nobel Prize within the nursing professional circles from ICN consisting of 132 countries and Florence Nightingale International Foundation in 2001 for the first time as Korean, the first Virginia Henderson Fellow not American in Sigma Theta Tau International, Minister of Health and Welfare Prize (2005), Florence Nightingale Medal (2007) from International Red Cross, Beomseok Service Award (2015), and grand prize of Korean Woman Leader from YWCA.
In 1990, she established a training course of mental health nurses for the first time in Korea to promote the social rehabilitation of mental patients and contributed to fostering human resources conducting effective local mental health projects. During serving as an education director of the Korean Nurses Association, she contributed to establishing the frame of refresher training for nurses by developing various package programs by areas in the actual nursing field to help quality improvement through continued training of the members and skill acquisition related to practical affairs.
Established local mental health project based on the study on nursing education and service effectiveness and contributed to the training for the spread of hospice care
Professor Su Sie Kim is well known as a pioneer of Korea, who developed a home recovery program adjusted to the Korean culture with her husband, professor In Su Kim of Korea University and established Korea House Church Ministries for the first time in Korea. They educated a total of 50 thousand couples and contributed to building healthy family relationships by conducting father school, children’s education, and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law workshop centering on the protestant churches.
She made efforts in service and an increase in nursing education in developing countries. At the request of health and hygiene agency in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, she installed local community health nursing stations and coached health education and health nursing practices subject to nursing educators, nurses, and health care workers in the Yanbian health hygiene school. She demonstrated and educated the interpersonal caring theory several times, which was developed and succeeded by her as a part of rehabilitation nursing for chronic mental patients and mentally challenged persons in Thailand, the Philippine, and Malaysia from the request of UNDP. Immediately after finishing work as the president of Seoul Cyber University, she served as the president of Daeyang Nursing College located in Lilongwe, Malawi and contributed to increasing of high-quality nursing personnel for public health of Malawi by raising the 3-year course to 4-year course in the state of a serious shortage of nursing personnel initially. In addition, she provided also service activities such as regular health care and food relief to about 300 disabled persons living in 7 neighbor villages in the Nkhoma region, Malawi.